On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Nathan Eisenberg <nat...@atlasnetworks.us>wrote:
> > Maybe the ISP's should move this choice to the consumer. > > The consumer already has this option on many SOHO firewalls. No action by > ISPs is required. But this is totally irrelevant to the idea of Net > Neutrality. > > Yes - but you can only traffic shape / prioritize so much after the data has reached your end of a circuit / connection. So yes those SOHO devices do it - but if you look on the wire - you'll see more actual bandwidth making it across then you are expecting. The SOHO devices are just buffering / dropping stuff / manipulating TCP flows to slow unimportant stuff down. It's a better solution to do this on the provider side > > I view this exercise as paying for priority when the circuit is full -- > like a special carpool lane. > > Carrier circuits should never be 'full', unless your definition of 'full' > is 50-70%, IMHO. 100% full is a failure of engineering, business planning, > and monitoring. Priority shouldn't be required. > > True - but we are not talking about carrier circuits in the core. Agree with your statements regarding core carrier circuits. We are talking about the 'last mile' DSL/Cable/Fiber connection into your house. My bandwidth is pegged everytime I download a new version of Linux from bittorrent. During that time - my VoIP and Netflix have issues. > Best Regards, > Nathan Eisenberg > >
