New Cogeco Capping Policy > Just my thoughts on this.

reply to Airwolf

Re: Just my thoughts on this.

You can up the speed all you want and generally network usage does not increase. Many times it can make things better since large requests do not sit there going forever allowing multiple customer flows to stack up and then clogging the circuits up. I've seen this many times with websites as we upgrade bandwidth to them and on the ISP side as well.

On the flip side, as people get more bandwidth they discover new things such as usable online video and such. So eventually you have to keep ahead of the curve, but in many cases ISP's built their systems with a few hundred k of usage per a small average of customers in mind. A lot of DOSCIS 2 stuff was engineered that way and it's very difficult to spread those customers over new head ends and such.

Even something like FIOS could someday have that problem if the collection point for all the traffic does not have enough bandwidth to handle peak times.

Unfortunately network planners and the pursekeepers never see eye to eye about things.