[brlug-general] Cox and P2P

[-ray]

The problem is there's no way they can sell you true 7mbps for less than 
$100 a month.  They say it's not cost effective for them.  They're banking 
on the fact that you won't actually use all 7mbps all the time.  I still 
say "most" people don't, but more and more people are.

No ISP wants to be the first to say "ok we lied, you really can't have all 
7mbps all the time".  By traffic shaping, they affect a small, but vocal 
minority.  As that minority grows, things will have to change.  Maybe one 
day we'll see the prices/speeds that other coutries get.

ray


On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Petri Laihonen wrote:

> limiting paying customers is naturally wrong, but do corporations
> care..... of course not.... Only corporations have freedom. On another
> note, I think the traffic shaping efforts should be directed to spam and
> viruses instead of something useful such as P2P protocols. More and more
> P2P protocols are used for legit file transfers, and naturally that
> suffers as well. I'm not sure, but I think entities like Joost and alike
> are using P2P protocols with their feeds.
>
> Petri

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