intelceleron11
@acanac.net
| Here's what really peeves me
What I don't understand is if they SAY the service is 5mbit, why don't I GET 5mbit? See, if they have trouble, what they should do, fairly, isn't cap everything - that's misleading. What they should do is dial down their service. Instead of me paying for 5mbit, I should pay for 3mbit. It solves all the problems. The issue is that Bell oversold themselves - nevertheless SOLD, and now they're in a hole, a deep one. Blaming bittorrent for the end of the internet isn't going to solve anything, in fact blame youtube for the end of the internet - there's no easy download mechanism for things you watch on there. With bittorrent you only download once, not 50 times. Protocols don't matter, put the blame where it belongs - on ISP's for their negligence and greed. |
NetKrazy
join:2007-11-29
Littleton, CO
| Because the concept of over-subscription exists in almost every business and infrastructure. Combined with the powerful marketing engines that these companies have advertising a 3mbps speed HONESTLY doesn't compete against a oversubscribed 10mbps advertisement. Unfortunately an ad campaign that says we're slower but better! doesn't get the phones to ring. and "It's small but it's fierce" only works at bars.
Ofcourse nobody on this forum would ever fall victim to advertised claims in the race for internet subscribers. It's all about who can get more customers to call and ask about a service and then try to sell them.
And again as it's been said time and time again consumer based networks are based on over-subscription and erratic usage with moderate usage patterns that rise and fall through the hours of the day. At the same time customers using torrents to transfer a video, program, or anything isp's wouldn't care. Customers downloading a movie from the newsgroups isp's wouldn't care and neither would the network at large. The problem is simple torrent programs and others continue to transmit data long after the user has left their computer. The problem is the guy who uses a newgroup grabber program to suck the binaries out of newsgroups 24hours a day to store EVERYTHING and then delete the items that he doesn't want. And then you get torrent sites that make "who shares more" a competition encouraging people to leave that program running uploading more data. The networks simply weren't built to support that. There is a reason that almost every ISP had a no servers clause in their terms of service. Because the networks were never built to maintain a 24hour a day onslaught and a customer who runs a web-server potentially creates that scenario. So what is the difference between a 'web-server' and a torrent client that's simply seeding 24hours a day? |
