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Do you work for Allot, Ellacoya (Arbor) or Cisco? All of these companies (and many more) sell equipment capable of detecting bittorrent and throttling it.
ISP's do not buy this equipment to spoil your fun; they buy it to make their networks more bearable when they are overloaded. Maybe, if ISPs are no longer allowed to use Sandvine equipment to mitigate the effects of congestion, they will increase the bandwidth of their networks instead; but do you think they'll do that for no extra charge? |
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ISP's do not buy this equipment to spoil your fun; they buy it to make their networks more bearable when they are overloaded. Maybe, if ISPs are no longer allowed to use Sandvine equipment to mitigate the effects of congestion, they will increase the bandwidth of their networks instead; but do you think they'll do that for no extra charge?
My goodness, my goodness.
In the 30 year history of the 'net, there's never been a year when demand did not increase.
How did we ever survive without secret, forged, injected packets?
Yeah, life is going to suck for a short time, as some ISPs have to now work doubly-hard and make the TWO YEARS of plant construction and upgrades that Sandvine allowed them to ignore. This won't hurt the MSOs, it hurts their customers. In a way, we're paying for their sin, not just once, but twice. Let's hope the FCC relieves Comcast of some of that 40-60% quarterly revenue growth and gives it back to their customers.
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