said by espaeth:said by ISurfTooMuch:said by espaeth:If they can support the speeds they advertise for all but one application, is reducing the level of service for everyone still the best option?
That makes no sense. Speed is speed. For example, 6/768 is 6/768 no matter what app is using it. Either you support a speed or you don't. To use an analogy, roads have posted speed limits.
In order for statistical multiplexing to work, you can't be having apps use the connection 24x7. Name another legitimate app that has the same traffic profile as P2P?
said by ISurfTooMuch:Besides, throttling BT is only today's problem as far as speed is concerned. What happens if Netflix begins to offer set-top boxes for movie downloads? What happens if someone develops a box to stream live TV channels over the Internet to subs' televisions? I'll bet that being able to watch channels that aren't widely available on cable or satellite will be popular with segments of the population. Or maybe video calling will become popular. The point is, these things will eat up lots of bandwidth. What will companies like Comcast do? Throttle all of them?
They don't need to throttle them all. For downstream only traffic like watching movies those transfers have a fixed duration. You download while you watch the movie or cache the movie, and then you're done. Same thing with video calls, unless you plan on having some kind of strange 24x7 video call going with someone.
Again, the issue is infinite duration transfers with P2P, where the app will keep generating traffic indefinitely as long as it is running.
that's not the issue it's peak hours when all people are using there pc on the net
