Also, when I was at the MGEITF backstage event last year, Vince Cerf put up this slide:
<http://www.ukfree.tv/styles/images/misc/n683515740_278785_4917.jpg> It seems to me that the ISPs should be attacking YouTube and Micrsoft Windows Update first, if they are attacking Auntie. On 11/04/2008, Steve Jolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I think the ISPs have a point ... the ADSL network is (currently) like a > > collection of country roads (narrow and fairly slow) which the BBC is trying > > to drive it's supersize juggernauts down. Think the ISPs should use some > > form of traffic shaping for iPlayer traffic and that the BBC and other such > > companies should fess up some of the costs involved in improving the network > > if they want to use the net to push their weighty products. > > > > C'mon, the iPlayer (then "imp") was first announced back in September > 2003, and it's hardly the only service of its type. It's not like ISPs > haven't had any warning that bandwidth-heavy mainstream applications were on > the way. > > IIRC near-ubiquitous bandwidth caps (explicit or hidden away in "fair use" > policies) only appeared with BT's launch of 8Mbps IPstream services in March > 2006. > > S > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > -- Please email me back if you need any more help. Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv
