On 24/9/20 9:27 am, Karl Auer wrote:
On Thu, 2020-09-24 at 08:55 +1000, Tom Worthington wrote:
According to Leigh Stark Telstra is planning to charge $10 a month
for a “Game Optimiser” to "prioritise traffic to gaming devices".
Will this really improve gaming?
https://www.pickr.com.au/news/2020/telstra-starts-testing-game-optimiser-for-its-nbn-customers/
Consider for moment what they will do if *everybody* pays the extra.
Network bandwidth is a zero sum game. This service, if real, *depends*
on taking something away from someone else.
The optimisation is applied to your own NBN link only hence the
requirement for the Telstra Smart Modem. It's to prevent downloads,
video streaming etc from killing gaming, VoIP and other applications
that needs low latency.
So you are taking away from other users or applications on your own home
network, but not from other Internet users.
Hamish
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