 badtripI heart the East BayPremium
join:2004-03-20
Albany, CA | I love the way these companies shift the blame to their customers.
Comcast: "It's not our fault our network slows down when our customers download. It's our customer's fault for downloading! If you don't like the slowdown and/or caps, go talk to your neighbors, they're the ones downloading, not us!"
Wave: "Hey if customers didn't sign up for service so much, then we wouldn't have to implement these tiny caps and throttling measures. If you don't like these caps and throttles, go talk to your neighbors they're the ones signing up for service, not us!"
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
 ·Comcast
| If you work the math, DOCSIS, especially 1.1 (what Wave uses AfAIK) can't handle a ton of traffic per node. You either split nodes or you implement caps to keep torrenters (and backup-ers) from near-monopolizing the node. Yes, it's not great when you're selling 18 Mbps packages on a 38 Mbps node...but when HD video comes to the fore, you gotta realize that some of these cable outfits have to expand infrastructure, and for that matter buy bandwidth. and both of thee things cost money. Not 50 cents per gig anywhere where cable is, but it's a good way to subsidize network upgrades so even the heavy users get decent network performance day in and day out. I'd venture to say that Wave probably spends $30ish per megabit of connectivity, maybe a little more, so 10 cents per downstream gig, not counting infrastructure costs. When you get heavy users on the network, the infrastructure gets strained, and they start becoming unprofitable. This is a natural, albeit somewhat painful (especially on lower tiers) market correction for this. |
