On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Mel Beckman <m...@beckman.org> wrote: > On Feb 27, 2015, at 9:56 AM, William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> > wrote: >> Deceit is Bad Behavior. If you sell me an X megabit per second >> Internet access service, you should do everything reasonably within >> your power to make sure I can access the Internet sites of my choice >> at X megabits per second.
> This is not feasible. ISPs work by oversubscription, so it's never possible > for all (or even 10% of all) customers to simultaneously demand their full > bandwidth. If ISPs had to reserve the full bandwidth sold to each customer Hi Mel, Respectfully, that's a straw man argument. You alter the parameters of my criticism then proceed to show how the altered argument is unreasonable. All utilities work by oversubscription: electric, natural gas, water and sewer. When the sewer authority fouls up their oversubscription model and your pee ends up in my basement, guess who pays for the cleanup? They do. I have some unfortunate first-hand experience with this. > Anyone who doesn't understand [oversubscription] > will be unable to engage in reasonable discussion about ISP practices. You said it, not me. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin ................ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>
