> Paid premium accounts will include access to web sites restricted by parenta > control (those viewing porn will have to pay in full, if porn is even > allowed, as > the bandwidth will impact everyone, and that is not good), paid premium > accounts will include video and sound services like Skype, NetMeeting, and > other high bandwidth usage that impacts everyone, that needs to be paid for, > that subsidizes the poor hardware and access costs. Gold premium services > like serving streaming audio and video are high cost items. Any city employee > accessing the system will have to pay the full cost from their department > budget, no free rides (most times access will be to web site intranets, so > would be free anyway).
Boy, this seems pretty counter to the whole net neutrality thing, and of course runs in to the problem of how you determine what kind of data is flowing over the wire in a world with encryption, tunneling, IPSec, etc. Bottom line: you shouldn't know. To a certain degree, traffic shaping of things like bittorrent might help, but perhaps not as much as one might think (getting the torrents down to nodes in the wireless network quickly helps to improve the overall bandwidth of the system). I suspect that rather than the stick approach, you go with the carrot: peer-based caching proxies for those who are willing to give up some privacy for performance. In genera, the costs of infrastructure like this are justified with reduced costs providing other services, reduced costs of living for residents and businesses, and most importantly: improved tax revenues from the economic stimuli's of the service. -- Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SOCALWUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SOCALWUG SOCALWUG website: http://www.socalwug.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
