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Columbus, OH | reply to insomniac84
Re: They make no sense. I have to completely agree with you. This makes total sense and I only hope that the cable companies actually actively jump on it as a working QOS system.
Thinking of bit torrent for example which is going to be the primary offender in the high bandwidth category, it is NEVER guaranteed speed-wise. Everyone you download from is gonna be on other residential ISPs with varying speeds, other peers or torrents they may be on, all kinds of factors. This compared to a straight HTTP download from a server on a fast pipe.
Take that example and if the ISP needs to throttle that high bandwidth use back, it's not going to have much visible or detrimental effect to anyone while greatly helping congestion issues on the network.
Long story short: With most data it is a case of high bandwidth apps are not realtime dependent and can be throttled back without any detriment except for taking a little bit longer to download. And low bandwidth applications usually need high priority and realtime access.
I am completely behind this option if we MUST have some form of traffic/bandwidth control. I would choose this over metered billing especially if some ISPs get their way and force anemically low caps on their customers.
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