> multimedia and the like). Clearly, ISPs want to keep their customers > happy, as they know that they will otherwise switch to another provider.
Nonsense. Following this logic, broadcast/cable TV should be of high quality since they also want to keep their customers happy, and customers want quality, don't they ? Bullshit. > secure telephony. Most ADSL is 384/1024 these days, and cable modem > (6*10^3 customers in the U.S. alone) is roughly 500/500. In selected Nonsense. Try actual tests on actual consumer grade lines. Access pattern of *DSL lines reverts to modem usage 30-45 days after consumer switches from analog modem to DSL. There is no bandwidth within ISPs to provide anything more to consumers but modem speeds, on average. > Network transport layer should be content agnostic. As soon as you drop > this requirement, creeping brokenness sets in. It's like using a shotgun Apparently you are out of touch. break; > Getting this exactly right requires not only cunning, but also some dumb > blind luck. Maybe, higher unemployment rate amongs engineers would help. Exactly. ===== end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: Yahoo! Greetings - send holiday greetings for Easter, Passover http://greetings.yahoo.com/
