[brlug-general] Cox prepares to suck more.

[Dustin Puryear]

I think both of you have a valid point here.

I am okay with Cox employing QoS if they publish the rules they use. If
they use some hidden magic formula then, yeah, this is certainly ripe
for abuse.

Andrew Baudouin wrote:
> Yes, he does.
> 
> 
> :casty:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Tim Fournet <tfournet at tfour.net
> <mailto: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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