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en102
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2007-Nov-28 2:29 pm
Yup... I suspect it as well.
CableCo/Telco will raise bandwidth rates IF there's low usage. Eg. 20Mbps connection isn't an issue if there's low usage.
This works similar to an old fashioned Telco CO, where there's a fixed capacity for lets say 40% at any one time (i.e. 40% of the phones can be calling at the same time). Typical Internet usage (browsing, video clips,downloads) support this model
Bittorrent is a chatty protocol, and many would see this as excess traffic, or consider it as 'running servers', in a method to deter the usage of p2p/Bittorrent. An old telco equivalent would think of this as having multiple people connecting to a local # and leaving the 2 connections open. Get enough of this, and capacity issues arise.
I don't justify it... if they can't support 20Mbps, then don't offer it. Offering it, then packet shaping / filtering / throttling apps at their discression is not the answer. Why not do it the old / AOL style: 5Mbps 'Internet' (unrestricted) = $60 20Mbps 'proxied/filtered/restricted Internet want to be' $45
This will solve this issue. Sell the Internet as the what it is. Sell a proxied/ad filled/content pushed/cookie based/data mined AOL wannabe as an alternative. |