curls
join:2000-12-27
Nepean, ON | A Mutually Beneficial Solution!!! I really wish the ISP's would take this forthcoming model into consideration, as it would serve the masses well:
Since a VAST majority of traffic comes from a small minority of users (the old 80/20 rule, or even 95/5 in this case), why not let the light-users of torrents get their full speeds, and implement a model as follows:
- Anything up until your roughly 10GB monthly service useage is at full speed.
- Any BitTorrent traffic between 10GB and 30GB is at 50% speed (using traffic shaping)
- Any BitTorrent traffic between 30GB and 60GB (monthly cap) is at 25% speed
- Any traffic at all over 60GB is $X/GB excess-useage charge.
That way, the light users still get their use of torrents. And the medium and heavy users get theirs as well, with priority on their first 10GB of data. Anything above that means they get throttled to help out the network and their fellow ISP users. Anything above the hard-cap of (arbitrarily) 60GB means they pay out the nose for the service AND it's slow. This will discourage the use of a standard high-speed connection to seed ALL the time, and encourage lighter use of torrents.
I think it could work. It would not be hard to implelement --> they already have a useage-meter, they already have a way to throttle you back to a set amount when they detect BT traffic... just combine the two and set some brackets!
Are you listening Mr. Ted Rogers? |
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| Thats what i was thinking, but couldn't say it better myself.
I'm a bit of a pessimist though, having seen the way office politics and some corporations work... if the solution makes sense, it won't get done. |
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 insomxPremium
join:2003-01-26
Canada | reply to curls
ISP's will take it to the extreme if you are telling them that is what people would want. I think that's ridiculous. If they just spent the money on upgrading their networks, instead of trying to make their connections more shittier, then it would be better for everyone. |
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