| reply to george357
Re: Why do they have to block services? You have an easy solution. Buy a T1 if no other service is available, and getting the exact speed is that important to you. I have never heard of an ISP rate limiting on a business class connection such as a T1, DS3, OC3, etc... If the price is too high, than obviously it's not that important to you.
I hate to say it, but on wireless networks there is a need for throttling. IE theoretically max for 2.4MHz is 54Mbs, on 900MHz your limited to about 5Mbs. (these may be wrong, as you can use OFDM and other protocols to increase rates, and I don't know them all) But in any case these are physical limits in reality your only going 1/2 duplex (I don't know any phones with MIMO yet) so you'll need to half the speed and subtract some for lost packets, retransmissions, timings, etc. Divide that by the number of customers on a tower and you'll get what's available to each customer (in reality it's more of the law of averages). I don't know the exact frequencies they use, but you see the point. IMHO it's better to throttle bandwidth hogs, than to crash the tower so that no one can get service. |
