I see this argument, and then I remember working for a company that happily sold 6 and 12 meg dsl from a dslam that was backhauled by a 3mb pair of t1s.
There needs to be some oversight that it is at least possible / likely to reach a reasonable expectation of normal destinations with the service limits you were sold. -Blake On Mar 22, 2014 12:17 PM, "Keith Medcalf" <kmedc...@dessus.com> wrote: > > >I don't see this as a technical problem, but one of business and ethics. > >ISP X advertises/sells customers "up to 8Mbps" (as an example), but when > >it comes to delivering that product, they've only guaranteed 512Kbps (if > >any) because the ISP hasn't put in the infrastructure to support 8Mbps > >per customer. Customer believes he/she has 8Mbps, Content provider says > >we provide 8Mbps content, but ISP can (theoretically and in practice) > >only deliver a fraction of that. That feels like false advertising to me. > > The problem is that the consumer is too stupid to own a computer and use a > network. > > The consumer purchased a product advertized as "up to 8Mbps" but really > wanted "not less than 8Mbps". > > It is not false advertizing. What was delivered is exactly what was > advertized and exactly what was purchased. > > > > > > >
