Lazlow
join:2006-08-07
Saint Louis, MO | reply to patcat88
Re: They make no sense. The ONLY time that downloading causes congestion is during peak hours. I do 99% of my downloading between 11pm and 8am (off peak here). This causes no congestion and does not cost the ISP anything extra. However I do like to browse (here and other places). Under your formula my browsing would be "throttled" because of my off peak downloading(which is causing a problem for no one). This is why a monthly or even daily download limit does not work. What needs to be done is to only count the usage during peak congestion. I can easily download(off peak ) 500GB+/month without contributing to the congestion while another person can download less than 150GB/month(1hr/night during peak congestion) and cause lots of congestion.
A pure proticol agnostic throttle during peak hours(only) is (in the short term) a good answer(which is what Comcast is using right now). The problem with this system is that there is the risk the ISPs will use it (long term) as an excuse not to upgrade their systems. |
