iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
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 ·Comcast
| reply to badtrip
Re: I love the way these companies shift the blame 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. |
