nocannothave
join:2006-10-14
Kennewick, WA
 ·Charter Pipeline
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| Really?
1%'ers. 1% of the users can ruin EVERYONE'S bandwidth.
I just don't believe it.
Comcast says that no one complained during their testing.
Are there comments from Comcast execs stating that before the caps, there were thousands of customers who called in?
"My internet is REALLY slow today. Could you find out why?"
And then this call is repeated thousands of times all over the country, with concentration on specific nodes. For example, in 2007, node 11-2456 had 800 calls about slow speed with no other reason possible. This sounds like some kindle of capacity issue! Not enough, because 800 calls were made and they all live on that node. So the network geeks did some looking around and it could only be traced to heavy uploaders on that particular node. And we are talking about uploaders, right? 500gb of download via DC++ or FTP or newsgroups would not be an issue pre-cap, right?
Or is it all manufactured?
It all comes back that 1% as the number given who are the bad apples. 1 out of a 100. 10 out of 1000. That 1mb upload 24 hours a day sucks dry the available bandwidth for 100 people. Really? The infrastructure is so bad that the upload side for those 100 people (lets say max available is really only 25mb for all 100 users. 25mb - 1mb leaves 24mb upload for 99 people), their connection slows to a crawl? 24mb for 99 people is still 248kb/s per person. That's plenty for e-mail and surfing. Even youtube addicts.
I just don't see where there could be a problem. Unless I am missing something, which I'm sure someone will point out... |
