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I just read the AUP for the first time.... »
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BubbaDude

join:2008-06-06
Livermore, CA


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Sorry, Karl, but I'm not buying it.

Ordinarily, bandwidth demand grows slowly and can be managed by ordinary means, but innovative new applications put extraordinary pressure on the Internet's ability to mediate bandwidth among users. This has happened before, with both ftp and HTTP. The protocols had to be re-engineered to handle the demand.

Topolski's amateur analysis of P2P ignores multi-stream and community effects, and these are all-important. See my blog for the analysis of one of the icons of packet switching: »bennett.com/blog/2008/07/hysteri···ectives/

Or don't, if you're content that Topolski is telling you the whole story.


anon12

@comcast.net

said by Karl :

The guys actually working in the network operation centers will generally tell you that congestion can almost always be handled with smart design and capacity upgrades
Yes that's true. The problem is upgrades in an HFC plant are not always that simple. For physical node splits neighborhoods have to be torn up and permits must be acquired. Comcast only budgets for X # of node splits a year and invariably some systems will run hot because of that.

You have some good points but I think you weaken your argument by making it so one-sided.
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