The application is very important. If the technology that we had at our
disposal would not be hampered by any application then I could care
less. Your right the more bits and applications for our customers use
the better for us. Unfortunately in most markets the only thing we can
provide our customers is superior customer service. At this time we are
behind on every other metric, be it bandwidth, latency, etc. We also
have a very limited amount of resources to deploy in. Compared to cable
that has literally 2ghz plus of spectrum to use we can't even hope to
compete on a bang for buck approach. So with that in mind I have to
agree that Comcast's is the only way we can survive for last mile
delivery. I also agree as for a carrier / wholesale the pipe should be
as dumb as possible and just pass bits as fast as it can. My main
concern is that as a private business owner I am the only one qualified
to say how my network and business should operate. No government agency
or bureaucrat could possibly understand my business better then myself.
Comcast is no different. Let the free market figure out how to make
this work.
Anthony Will
Broadband Corp.
http://www.broadband-mn.com
David E. Smith wrote:
Clint Ricker wrote:
No one is saying that you have to sell $40 10Mb/s pipes at to
customers for
them to use full tilt 24x7. Restrict on bandwidth, if you choose. Sell
metered. Put caps on. Why restrict based on "content type"?
Because some content types make customers call and complain, and some
don't.
My network generally rate-limits or drops most "peer-to-peer" traffic,
because our last-mile wireless gear often throws a fit when confronted
with really aggressive P2P software. One customer running Limewire,
using its default settings, can bring down a whole access point,
annoying twenty or more other customers.
Frankly, I don't care what you're downloading, only how you're
downloading it. I don't care if it's naughty videos or Linux ISOs,
legal or not-so-much; if it degrades other customers' service, it'll
get shut off. We're very up-front about this stipulation. When the
"service problems" bad cop is combined with the "you didn't know it's
probably illegal to download most of that stuff" good cop, most
customers are very understanding. A few have been asked to find other
service providers, and I don't weep overly for them.
You should not care--it doesn't cost you
any more or less, regardless as to what they choose to use their 6GB
a month
for.
The P2P traffic costs me reputation and goodwill with my customers, so
I would argue it's far more expensive than many other types of traffic.
David Smith
MVN.net
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