[brlug-general] Cox prepares to suck more.

[Andrew Baudouin]

Yes, he does.


:casty:

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Tim Fournet <tfournet at tfour.net> wrote:

>  >From the Description:
> """
> * During the occasional times the network is congested, this new
> technology automatically ensures that all time-sensitive Internet traffic —
> such as web pages, voice calls, streaming videos and gaming — moves without
> delay. Less time-sensitive traffic, such as file uploads, peer-to-peer and
> Usenet newsgroups, may be delayed momentarily...' Sounds like throttling to
> me."
> """
> *Sounds like QoS to me. I don't see a problem at all with giving downloads
> a lower priority on the network than voice, streaming videos, and gaming.
> They should have been doing this years ago when QoS prioritization became
> common on most LANs and WANs.
>
> Do you really want your VoIP applications to stutter just so that your
> neighbor can download the latest episode of Lost from thepiratebay 20
> seconds faster?
>
>
> Will Hill wrote:
>
> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/28/2153242
>
> Because of the way YouTube stutters I thought they were already doing this.
> They have also already been caught "managing" p2p and admit to blocking
> ports, upload speed caps and other unpleasant breakage.  Didn't they learn
> from Comcast?
>
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