Doug wrote: > At 04:03 12/2/2008, Benny Amorsen wrote: > >Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> "Net Neutrality" is great in principle. But ISP's need to > >> somehow control those few percentage of users who suck down > >> a huge majority of the bandwidth. It's dollars and cents. > > > >Yes, just like the airlines need to somehow control those users who > >keep showing up to the flight they booked, every single time! It's > >impossible to do overbooking with customers like that, so we need to > >find ways of punishing them. > > What happens if everyone who owns a car drives > it at the same time? Owns a telephone and > uses it at the same time? > > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
If everyone who owns a car drives it at the same time, there's lots of traffic. You know who gets blamed? The right people -- the people to create the infrastructure. Drivers aren't blamed for driving their cars when they want to as long as they do it legally as prescribed by the very open and easy to find laws. If everyone who owns a telephone uses it at the same time, it's just like the Internet issues. Telephone companies also practice oversubscription. But it's clear to everyone that it's the phone company that doesn't have the capacity for it... people don't blame the customers for using their phone. They pay for it. They should be able to use it when they want. But if everyone uses the Internet access they pay for? Suddenly, they're violating a user agreement (usually not a specified one in the case of many ISPs) or a usage policy and it's all that crazy P2P to blame. They're "stealing bandwidth from other users." Which is absolute poppycock. That's a marketing spin on poor infrastructure planning. N. _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
