Re: [isp-bandwidth] Om Malik supports throttling, gets flamed

["Peter R." <peter@...>]

It isn't so much greed, as the metrics that Wall Street uses that 
quarter to measure the stock value. It used to be access lines, then 
minutes, then access lines, then DSL, now video, oh, wait, DSL, 
winbacks. Every metric except one: customer satisfaction.

Not to throw a pineapple or anything, Scott, but building a network for 
300 users is WAY different than building it for 3M.
Even at 3000 users, it isn't the same as 3M.
10% of an Indie ISP's users is maybe 100 using up big bandwidth. 10% of 
3M is 300K. Likely not all in the same geo. So the upgrade would be 
extensive.
A simple upgrade when you have one router is different than when you 
have hundreds plus other gear.

I'm not defending any of this, but it isn't as simple as you think. Once 
Network Architects get involved it becomes a convoluted, complex mess 
(or mesh).

At the end of the day, the FTC should have stepped in and fined both VZW 
and Comcast for violations of Truth in Advertising. It would have been 
finished there.

- Peter




Robert - elists wrote:
> >  Yet, is it laughable only because corporate greed drives the engines?
> >
> > More more more?
> >
> > I mentioned the word "stupid" because at times, I really believe that
> > Dilbert'isms prevail.
> >
> > Many / most consumers use the networks very sparingly.
> >
> > In the past 10 years, we haven't had an issue that a faster NPE or a rare
> > circuit upgrade couldn't handle.
> >
> > Provided that all traffic was "legal" traffic, of course...
> >
> >  - rh
> >
> >     





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