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Re: Stimulate it? said by Lazlow:"Odlyzko suggests that ISPs should stop fearing traffic growth and work on ways to stimulate it." Maybe I am missing the boat here, but why should the ISPs want to stimulate traffic growth? I understand (and agree with) his statement that they should not be afraid of growth(grow or die). The ISPs don't fear traffic growth, they're crying "BANDWIDTH APOCALYPSE!!" and spreading FUD to justify new ways to control and monetize the pipe you're paying for.
They are trying to get consumers, congress and regulators to believe there is a scarcity of bandwidth and they just can't handle the traffic (especially "bandwidth hogs") without some "network management" or caps and throttling.
there continues to be no publicly available data (that I have seen) that indicates there are major network congestion problems. |
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1 edit | said by nasadude:there continues to be no publicly available data (that I have seen) that indicates there are major network congestion problems. Here in Canada, Bell was recently required to prove network congestion was the reason that they started throttling p2p protocols by 95% during peak times. Not only did the numbers show there was no congestion, they actually showed a surplus of bandwidth. I'm actually surprised they released those numbers, as it completely killed their argument and credibility; but I guess they figured the folks on the CRTC wouldn't know any better. I'd bet that the status of other large DSL provider networks would be similar.
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