Jesus H. Christ, save us from the morons in our government!
Okay, so the FCC is passing farked up rulings that is forcing ISPs to adopt management policies that we find rather detestable. What are our options?
There's the obvious "write your senator and representative" route, but we all know that probably won't be terribly effective.
As I see it, there's only one real solution. Companies like Comcast need to increase their bandwidth capacity, but there's no need to eat the cost
completely. They can set aside a service tier that is explicitly for the customers that use PtP and block it completely on the other tiers. The PtP tier gets
premium bandwidthin exchange for a higher service fee, say about 20% more than the standard service tier. This extra cash goes into increasing the bandwidth of
the networks so as to support the new tier. Of course, with that being a mere 1% of the users that's not going to be a heck of a lot of extra money for
expansion. Too bad, like I said before they can afford to take a little fat off their bottom lines - it's what it's there for. Additional bandwidth can
be realocated from the standard service tiers - it's not like the casual downloaders and web surfers are gonna miss a megabit or two when, on average,
current service provides what? Eight megabits?
On that note, Comcast should be providing a low-end tier for the really casual users. You know, the people who just wanted a somewhat faster and more
convenient connection than dial-up. For these people a single megabit is pure bliss. I know that there are service providers that do tiered service like this,
just not without packet discrimination on the slower tiers, so it's not like it would be something impossible to implement.
Thoughts?
Okay, so the FCC is passing farked up rulings that is forcing ISPs to adopt management policies that we find rather detestable. What are our options?
There's the obvious "write your senator and representative" route, but we all know that probably won't be terribly effective.
As I see it, there's only one real solution. Companies like Comcast need to increase their bandwidth capacity, but there's no need to eat the cost
completely. They can set aside a service tier that is explicitly for the customers that use PtP and block it completely on the other tiers. The PtP tier gets
premium bandwidthin exchange for a higher service fee, say about 20% more than the standard service tier. This extra cash goes into increasing the bandwidth of
the networks so as to support the new tier. Of course, with that being a mere 1% of the users that's not going to be a heck of a lot of extra money for
expansion. Too bad, like I said before they can afford to take a little fat off their bottom lines - it's what it's there for. Additional bandwidth can
be realocated from the standard service tiers - it's not like the casual downloaders and web surfers are gonna miss a megabit or two when, on average,
current service provides what? Eight megabits?
On that note, Comcast should be providing a low-end tier for the really casual users. You know, the people who just wanted a somewhat faster and more
convenient connection than dial-up. For these people a single megabit is pure bliss. I know that there are service providers that do tiered service like this,
just not without packet discrimination on the slower tiers, so it's not like it would be something impossible to implement.
Thoughts?