RE: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-16 Thread Frank Bulk
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mikael Abrahamsson Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 1:07 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Frank Bulk wrote: Except that upstreams are not at 27 Mbps (http://i.cmpnet.com/commsdesign/csd/2002/jun02/imedia-fig1.gif

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:43:12 -0500 William Herrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 14, 2008 5:25 PM, Joe Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So users who rarely use their connection are more profitable to the ISP. The fat man isn't a welcome sight to the owner of the AYCE buffet. Joe,

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008, Mark Smith wrote: But the fat man isn't allowed to take up residence in the restaurant and continously eat - he's only allowed to be there in bursts, like we used to be able to assume people would use networks they're connected to. Left running P2P is the fat man never

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 1/15/08, Adrian Chadd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ffs, stop with the crappy analogies. The internet is like a badly designed commodity network. Built increasingly cheaper to deal with market pressures and unable to shift quickly to shifting technologies. Just like the telcos I recall

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Brandon Galbraith wrote: I think no matter what happens, it's going to be very interesting as Comcast rolls out DOCSIS 3.0 (with speeds around 100-150Mbps possible), Verizon FIOS Well, according to wikipedia DOCSIS 3.0 gives 108 megabit/s upstream as opposed to 27 and 9

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:56:30 +0900 Adrian Chadd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2008, Mark Smith wrote: But the fat man isn't allowed to take up residence in the restaurant and continously eat - he's only allowed to be there in bursts, like we used to be able to assume people

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Joe Greco
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:43:12 -0500 William Herrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 14, 2008 5:25 PM, Joe Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So users who rarely use their connection are more profitable to the ISP. The fat man isn't a welcome sight to the owner of the AYCE buffet.

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread David E. Smith
Joe Greco wrote: Time to stop selling the always on connections, then, I guess, because it is always on - not P2P - which is the fat man never leaving. P2P is merely the fat man eating a lot while he's there. As long as we're keeping up this metaphor, P2P is the fat man who says he's gonna

RE: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Geo.
As long as we're keeping up this metaphor, P2P is the fat man who says Guys, according to wikipedia over 70 million people fileshare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_of_file_sharing That's not the fat man, that's a significant portion of the market. Demand is changing, meet the new needs

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Joe Greco
Joe Greco wrote: Time to stop selling the always on connections, then, I guess, because it is always on - not P2P - which is the fat man never leaving. P2P is merely the fat man eating a lot while he's there. As long as we're keeping up this metaphor, P2P is the fat man who says he's

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread David E. Smith
Joe Greco wrote: I have no idea what the networking equivalent of thirty-seven half-eaten bags of Cheetos is, can't even begin to imagine what the virtual equivalent of my couch is, etc. Your metaphor doesn't really make any sense to me, sorry. There isn't one. The fat man metaphor was

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Barry Shein
This is amazing. People are discovering oversubscription. When we put the very first six 2400bps modems for the public on the internet in 1989 and someone shortly thereafter got a busy signal and called support the issue was oversubscription. What? You mean you don't have one modem and phone

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Joe Greco
Joe Greco wrote: I have no idea what the networking equivalent of thirty-seven half-eaten bags of Cheetos is, can't even begin to imagine what the virtual equivalent of my couch is, etc. Your metaphor doesn't really make any sense to me, sorry. There isn't one. The fat man metaphor

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Jan 15, 2008 3:52 PM, Joe Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe Greco wrote: I have no idea what the networking equivalent of thirty-seven half-eaten bags of Cheetos is, can't even begin to imagine what the virtual equivalent of my couch is, etc. Your metaphor doesn't really make

RE: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Rod Beck
PROTECTED] on behalf of Martin Hannigan Sent: Tue 1/15/2008 9:25 PM To: Joe Greco Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... On Jan 15, 2008 3:52 PM, Joe Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe Greco wrote: I have no idea what the networking equivalent of thirty-seven half

RE: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Frank Bulk
Abrahamsson Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 3:27 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Brandon Galbraith wrote: I think no matter what happens, it's going to be very interesting as Comcast rolls out DOCSIS 3.0 (with speeds around 100-150Mbps

RE: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Frank Bulk wrote: I'm not aware of MSOs configuring their upstreams to attain rates for 9 and 27 Mbps for version 1 and 2, respectively. The numbers you quote are the theoretical max, not the deployed values. But with 1000 users on a segment, don't these share the 27

RE: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Frank Bulk
of downstream to upstream ports. Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mikael Abrahamsson Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 5:41 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Frank Bulk wrote: I'm

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Mark Radabaugh
Joe Greco wrote: As long as you fairly disclose to your end-users what limitations and restrictions exist on your network, I don't see the problem. You've set out a qualification that generally doesn't exist. For example, this discussion included someone from a WISP, Amplex, I believe,

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: Joe Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] As long as you fairly disclose to your end-users what limitations and restrictions exist on your network, I don't see the problem. You've set out a qualification that generally doesn't exist. For example, this

RE: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Frank Bulk wrote: Except that upstreams are not at 27 Mbps (http://i.cmpnet.com/commsdesign/csd/2002/jun02/imedia-fig1.gif show that you would be using 32 QAM at 6.4 MHz). The majority of MSOs are at 16-QAM at 3.2 MHz, which is about 10 Mbps. We just took over two

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-14 Thread Joe Greco
From my experience, the Internet IP Transit Bandwidth costs ISP's a lot more than the margins made on Broadband lines. So users who rarely use their connection are more profitable to the ISP. The fat man isn't a welcome sight to the owner of the AYCE buffet. What exactly does this imply,

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-14 Thread William Herrin
On Jan 14, 2008 5:25 PM, Joe Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So users who rarely use their connection are more profitable to the ISP. The fat man isn't a welcome sight to the owner of the AYCE buffet. Joe, The fat man is quite welcome at the buffet, especially if he brings friends and tips

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-14 Thread Matt Palmer
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 06:43:12PM -0500, William Herrin wrote: On Jan 14, 2008 5:25 PM, Joe Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So users who rarely use their connection are more profitable to the ISP. The fat man isn't a welcome sight to the owner of the AYCE buffet. The fat man is quite