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Re: Metering is a Scare Tactic
said by karlmarx  :Comcast should sell 1mb/sec x 256k/sec, because THAT'S WHAT THEY CAN PROVIDE. I don't know if those are the right numbers, but I agree with the general gist of your message. Truth is, though, that with ~10 Mbps uplinks being shared by up to 125 homes or so (presuming they call subscribe), that number would be 85 kbps or so. If you are advocating to ban all oversubscription or "statistical multiplexing," then I do not think that is wise.
I think it would be fair to sell the service at bandwidths and speeds that the ISP can reliably or confidently hit. I think that "reliably or confidently" means in the 90th percentile.
I still guess as you do -- whatever the 90th percentile numbers would turn out to be, they would probably no longer appear to be competitive with DSL or FIOS and that's why they won't do this and chose to secretly attack P2P instead.
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