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| Throttling It would seem since broadband came around in the late 90's the connections have become more restricted. Back then a cable connection, was unlimited bandwidth, no throttling. Over the years as cable companies saturated their networks, they started to hit capactity walls. No we are seeing them trying to find and implement different ways to curb consumption.
They'res always going to be that 10 percent, that consumes the masses. The way I see it though its good way to stress test networks. They'res a lag of time between the heavy consumption user, and the years for an average internet user to use the same usage.
Files do keep getting bigger and bigger. Streaming video is catching on, and in like some reports, uses more bandwidth than p2p. Thats with pretty crappy quality streaming video, give it a few more years, and people will want to stream 720p video on you tube.
I think ISP's are going the wrong way, they don't want to expand for the the future, they want to milk what they have, and keep consumption down. I don't know if the capitalistic business model can work, or if maybe the internet should ultimately become a public utility. The ISP's are in it for the money, so its easy to understand where they come from. They want to rake it money, while keep costs low. If they don't have to upgrade, they don't have to spend money.
I think DSL has an advantage over cable, and they may wish to exploit it. Cable has the problem of being conjested at the node. DSL is basically limited by the size of its backbone, so its easier for DSL (and probably cheaper) for dsl to provide the bandwidth. It would be nice for DSL to start selling based on this advtange. Cable has the speed advantage, but DSL has the bandwidth advantage.
And one final note. P2P is one of the most ungodly inefficient file distrubution methods out there. It required on average, for everyone to upload as much as they download. So it basically doubles internet consumption. No wonder ISP's want to throttle the crap out of it. | |
| Actually, DSL can be saturated as well. Crappy copper lines don't help either. If the DSLAM has too many customers that overload the CO, it has congestion. Why do you think T lowered it's speed advertising? Because of that. T has a backbone advantage but as cable cos roll out D 3.0, they won't. Cable Cos also have to stop saturating nodes if they hope to make their phone service work flawlessly as well.
The simple solution: Fiber. Fiber is an unlimited pipe. In Japan, there is a building that uses the power of the sun to light the whole building.
Plus, I see a revolution in HSI anyway. Simply put, ISPs, to meet bizness requirements, will have to juice their backbones anyway. BUT, if Big Business decides on their own network as they are considering, that would scare the incumbents. Competition will come from somewhere to lower costs and whomever provides it will reap the revolution in HSI.
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