Of course, a few people streaming DOWN can also hose the loop, or pirate files from folks who do have good upstream rates -- and since when is it the ISP's responsibility to police content -- oh, yes, when you are T-W and you have the vested interest of the content provider, I guess. Shouldn't the cable Internet provider have the neutral status of "common carrier", same as the Telco's?
I also have heard that saturation of the upstream link can hose up the entire loop, including the downstream capacity, with a rather sharp cut-off. If so, putting too tight a leash on upstream can have a detrimental effect on everyone -- so how many nodes do they put on a loop -- 600 or so? So what will you do with your 0.2 Kb of bandwidth, and how much of it is already used-up with broadcast packets et al? Considering that they allocate only ONE TV-channel's worth of bandwidth to the entire Internet service, when there are what, at least 256 channels on the wire, seems like they could loosen-up a bit. Note that most garden-variety DSL accounts of which I am aware give at least 256 Kb up, which is not even shared at the node level -- and substantially higher rates are somewhat affordable. I was sucked-in by T's "6 months at $20 per" deal, so just about when that was up, they announced a 15% price increase in the base rates and reduced the rental credit for people having their own modems from $5 per to $3 per. What can we expect when they merge with Comcast!! Ken M. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Azeem Shahjahan Jiva Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 9:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [BAWUG] AT&T/TimeWarner Broadband Thanks everyone, I guess I'm just pissed beacuse my friends in Boston have better net connection then me :) +---------- Thus spoke Thom Stark on Wed, Jun 19, 2002 >Azeem Jiva asked: >> Can anyone explain to me why they would cap upstream at 128k? I'm trying >> to think of a logical reason for this, and I come up short. Anyone have >> any insights? >To inhibit piracy of video, audio and software files, to prevent bandwidth >hogs such as streaming media (i.e. -- Webcam) providers from paying for a >home connection, then using it to run a business and, in general, to keep a >handful of subscribers from reducing the bandwidth available to an entire >cable segment. >Oh, wait..that's three reasons.. > >..sorry. I never do know when to stop.. > >Regards, > >Thom Stark > >Telephone: 209-966-2700 >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.starkrealities.com >Postal address: POB 5008 PMB 199, Mariposa, CA 95338-5008 >Ship-to address: 5008-A Highway 140, Box 199, Mariposa, CA 95338-9208 >PGP public key: http://www.starkrealities.com/thomskey.txt >-- >general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> >[un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- Azeem Jiva [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~ajiva I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. -- Dune -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
