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I interviewed Alex Dudley, VP of PR for Time Warner Cable at Network Performance Daily on this. I tried to be impartial, but as I mention in the intro, this would raise my bill 500%, and would be a 1000% markup from Time Warnerâ(TM)s wholesale rate, and as TW is a monopoly in my apartment complex, the net effect is that Iâ(TM)m getting kicked out of my home when the billing goes live, so the interview gets heated at points. FTA:

NPD: I was wondering if you ever considered this⦠tracking the high-end users, and⦠only when the line is congested⦠throttling back their service using QoS priorities. Giving them--

Dudley: Thatâ(TM)s exactly what Comcast did about a year ago, and it caused a complete outrage and the FCC hauled them before the committee and told them they had to stop doing it.

NPD: Actually, I covered that. That's actually the result that Comcast applied after the FCC asked them to choose a different system . You're talking about the Sandvine stuff that was sending forged RST packets and the issue there was that the RST packets looked like they had come from the sender itself, which was essentially kind of a classic " Man In The Middle" attack . A kind of a fraudulent thing.

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Dudley: â¦because of consumers that are using amounts like this, what we're seeing is a need for network expansion. â¦We figure⦠the top 25% of users use 100 times more network bandwidth than the bottom 25%.

NPD: Well that's just standard bell curves.

Dudley: Iâ(TM)m sorry?

NPD: Well, when you put any system on a graph like that⦠because of the 80/20 rule or the Pareto Principle or whatever it's called, when you put something on the bell curve, of course the top 25 are going to use the most bandwidth because they're the top 25â¦.

Previously, I wrote on how bandwidth caps have a chilling effect on Internet participatory culture.

I interviewed Alex Dudley, VP of PR for Time Warner Cable at Network Performance Daily on this. I tried to be impartial, but as I mention in the intro, this would raise my bill 500%, and would be a 1000% markup from Time Warnerâ(TM)s wholesale rate, and as TW is a monopoly in my apartment complex, the net effect is that Iâ(TM)m getting kicked out of my home when the billing goes live, so the interview gets heated at points. FTA:

NPD: I was wondering if you ever considered this⦠tracking the high-end users, and⦠only when the line is congested⦠throttling back their service using QoS priorities. Giving them--

Dudley: Thatâ(TM)s exactly what Comcast did about a year ago, and it caused a complete outrage and the FCC hauled them before the committee and told them they had to stop doing it.

NPD: Actually, I covered that. That's actually the result that Comcast applied after the FCC asked them to choose a different system . You're talking about the Sandvine stuff that was sending forged RST packets and the issue there was that the RST packets looked like they had come from the sender itself, which was essentially kind of a classic " Man In The Middle" attack . A kind of a fraudulent thing.

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Dudley: â¦because of consumers that are using amounts like this, what we're seeing is a need for network expansion. â¦We figure⦠the top 25% of users use 100 times more network bandwidth than the bottom 25%.

NPD: Well that's just standard bell curves.

Dudley: Iâ(TM)m sorry?

NPD: Well, when you put any system on a graph like that⦠because of the 80/20 rule or the Pareto Principle or whatever it's called, when you put something on the bell curve, of course the top 25 are going to use the most bandwidth because they're the top 25â¦.

Previously, I wrote on how bandwidth caps have a chilling effect on Internet participatory culture.

I interviewed Alex Dudley, VP of PR for Time Warner Cable at Network Performance Daily on this. I tried to be impartial, but as I mention in the intro, this would raise my bill 500%, and would be a 1000% markup from Time Warnerâ(TM)s wholesale rate, and as TW is a monopoly in my apartment complex, the net effect is that Iâ(TM)m getting kicked out of my home when the billing goes live, so the interview gets heated at points. FTA:

NPD: I was wondering if you ever considered this⦠tracking the high-end users, and⦠only when the line is congested⦠throttling back their service using QoS priorities. Giving them--

Dudley: Thatâ(TM)s exactly what Comcast did about a year ago, and it caused a complete outrage and the FCC hauled them before the committee and told them they had to stop doing it.

NPD: Actually, I covered that. That's actually the result that Comcast applied after the FCC asked them to choose a different system . You're talking about the Sandvine stuff that was sending forged RST packets and the issue there was that the RST packets looked like they had come from the sender itself, which was essentially kind of a classic " Man In The Middle" attack . A kind of a fraudulent thing.

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Dudley: â¦because of consumers that are using amounts like this, what we're seeing is a need for network expansion. â¦We figure⦠the top 25% of users use 100 times more network bandwidth than the bottom 25%.

NPD: Well that's just standard bell curves.

Dudley: Iâ(TM)m sorry?

NPD: Well, when you put any system on a graph like that⦠because of the 80/20 rule or the Pareto Principle or whatever it's called, when you put something on the bell curve, of course the top 25 are going to use the most bandwidth because they're the top 25â¦.

Previously, I wrote on how bandwidth caps have a chilling effect on Internet participatory culture.

I interviewed Alex Dudley, VP of PR for Time Warner Cable at Network Performance Daily on this. I tried to be impartial, but as I mention in the intro, this would raise my bill 500%, and would be a 1000% markup from Time Warnerâ(TM)s wholesale rate, and as TW is a monopoly in my apartment complex, the net effect is that Iâ(TM)m getting kicked out of my home when the billing goes live, so the interview gets heated at points. FTA:

NPD: I was wondering if you ever considered this⦠tracking the high-end users, and⦠only when the line is congested⦠throttling back their service using QoS priorities. Giving them--

Dudley: Thatâ(TM)s exactly what Comcast did about a year ago, and it caused a complete outrage and the FCC hauled them before the committee and told them they had to stop doing it.

NPD: Actually, I covered that. That's actually the result that Comcast applied after the FCC asked them to choose a different system . You're talking about the Sandvine stuff that was sending forged RST packets and the issue there was that the RST packets looked like they had come from the sender itself, which was essentially kind of a classic " Man In The Middle" attack . A kind of a fraudulent thing.

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Dudley: â¦because of consumers that are using amounts like this, what we're seeing is a need for network expansion. â¦We figure⦠the top 25% of users use 100 times more network bandwidth than the bottom 25%.

NPD: Well that's just standard bell curves.

Dudley: Iâ(TM)m sorry?

NPD: Well, when you put any system on a graph like that⦠because of the 80/20 rule or the Pareto Principle or whatever it's called, when you put something on the bell curve, of course the top 25 are going to use the most bandwidth because they're the top 25â¦.

Previously, I wrote on how bandwidth caps have a chilling effect on Internet participatory culture.

I interviewed Alex Dudley, VP of PR for Time Warner Cable at Network Performance Daily on this. I tried to be impartial, but as I mention in the intro, this would raise my bill 500%, and would be a 1000% markup from Time Warnerâ(TM)s wholesale rate, and as TW is a monopoly in my apartment complex, the net effect is that Iâ(TM)m getting kicked out of my home when the billing goes live, so the interview gets heated at points. FTA:

NPD: I was wondering if you ever considered this⦠tracking the high-end users, and⦠only when the line is congested⦠throttling back their service using QoS priorities. Giving them--

Dudley: Thatâ(TM)s exactly what Comcast did about a year ago, and it caused a complete outrage and the FCC hauled them before the committee and told them they had to stop doing it.

NPD: Actually, I covered that. That's actually the result that Comcast applied after the FCC asked them to choose a different system . You're talking about the Sandvine stuff that was sending forged RST packets and the issue there was that the RST packets looked like they had come from the sender itself, which was essentially kind of a classic " Man In The Middle" attack . A kind of a fraudulent thing.

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Dudley: â¦because of consumers that are using amounts like this, what we're seeing is a need for network expansion. â¦We figure⦠the top 25% of users use 100 times more network bandwidth than the bottom 25%.

NPD: Well that's just standard bell curves.

Dudley: Iâ(TM)m sorry?

NPD: Well, when you put any system on a graph like that⦠because of the 80/20 rule or the Pareto Principle or whatever it's called, when you put something on the bell curve, of course the top 25 are going to use the most bandwidth because they're the top 25â¦.

Previously, I wrote on how bandwidth caps have a chilling effect on Internet participatory culture.

Simple. So simple I find it hard to believe that no one else has mentioned the reason yet: Japan and France (and places like them that score consistently high in terms of connectedness and bandwidth) have significantly higher population density than the US.

This comes up every time this is discussed, and is debunked every time:

The U.S. population density may be 31/km^2 compared to France's 113/km^2 or 337/km^2 for Japan, but a lot of that is Alaska and Texas and whatnot. California has a population density of 90.27/km^2 - rivaling France - yet does not have France's broadband speed - and considering that California is one of America's technological "bread baskets," this is a serious problem. On the other coast, New Jersey has a population density of 438/km^2 - and New Jersey's broadband is not better than the rest of the nation. Additionally, even considering that nationwide population density number, Norway, Sweden, and Finland, have lower population densities and both faster broadband speeds and greater household penetration.

I agree with you Seanadams, but I just finished an interview with Simon Morris and it's not that he's saying that the way TCP handles packet loss is a particular problem, he just thinks he can do better.

BitTorrent essentially already has it's own methods to deal with dropped packets of information - it gets the information from elsewhere. Moving to UDP eliminates the triple handshake, and it eliminates throttling down packet sizes in response to a dropped packet.

The only problem is that it also eliminates the Layer 4 [transport] traffic congestion safeguards, which is why BitTorrent is looking to establish new and better ones at layer 7 [application].

And the simple fact that we are expected to take their word for 'how the law will be enforced' is a problem all by it self.

Well then, don't take their word for it. Go find somebody who knows how to read legal language and get them to interpret it for you, because your interpretation is pretty hopeless. Not even Matt Miller, the lawyer who's trying to get the law overturned, agrees with your interpretation of it:

We've gotten calls from people who say, "Well, if somebody's switching out a hard drive, then that doesn't apply to them, right?" And the answer to that is, yes. It doesn't apply to them. But anyone who is analyzing data in a situation where that data points back to the actions of a third party - so, somebody who is not the computer's owner, or someone who is not the owner of the company - anytime a third party is implicated by data analysis, this law is potentially triggered.

Really, his issue is not with the law itself, but with the state agency that's supposed to enforce it. He claims they plan to interpret it so broadly that it would in fact allow them regulate all computer repair. So it's their regulations we should be arguing about, not the law. Though it's worth noting that nobody except Miller seems to know about these regulations.

...but we gotta keep tryin to keep the masses paranoid don't we? Go slashdot!

http://www.networkperformancedaily.com/2008/07/texas_law_requires_pi_licenses_1.html

Follow the links and read the law yourself.

I understand that the original law was probably to only apply to certain kinds of businesses, but that's not how it's written. Even the guy who wrote the bill says it's broader than that.

The most obvious example is people supporting websites. Compromising a website is breaking the law. Requiring that a private individual maintaining a website be a PI before he can go in and remove a phishing page that some guy has dropped on his site, let alone fix the problem, seems a bit rough to me... but that's exactly the kind of activity the law covers.

According to the guy who wrote that bill, if you "analyze" the data, you're on the hook.

Well, the problem is that charging for the data isn't going to do anything to resolve bandwidth issues. A user downloading a single large file during peak times at high speeds is going to create more of a bandwidth problem than a user downloading multiple large files via BT staggered over a couple of days. It's because data isn't the limited resource - data is unlimited. It's bandwidth - the capacity of the pipe at any particular time which is limited.

If your neighbor's network is going slower because you're downloading a huge file, that's not a sign of you being a 'bandwidth hog' - it's a sign of improper QoS policies in place. Everybody gets a share of the pipe. If you want a bigger share of that pipe, you can ALREADY pay for more bandwidth, which is the limited resource. Charging for bandwidth AND data is "double dipping"

In my opinion, it's just an excuse to try to maintain the old business models of cable TV (for cable companies) and cellphone/landline (for phone companies) when better alternatives (digital distribution/VoIP) exist.

Killjoy_NL:

We did a story at NetworkPerformanceDaily.com on the appeal of D&D - at least among the IT/Techie set. Yes, it's about pretending to be a wizard or a brawny barbarian - wish fulfillment fantasy... but it's also because the game itself is an aid designed to help creativity by introducing artificial boundaries.

As for starting to play, find a play group and use whatever version of the rules they're using. For D&D, the group is more important than any particular rules set. The best rules won't help you with lousy players, and bad rules are no deterrent for good players. (It's kinda like Monopoly that way.)

The thing is, Netcosm is officially a "research project" that isn't public, it's not something you can install and use today.

http://www.networkperformancedaily.com/2007/04/why_netcosm_is_not_a_product_y_1.html

Here's an interview with Dr. Moller that we did at NetworkPerformanceDaily.com, which includes an audio podcast.
Interview & Podcast

'Sounds like the regular classroom teacher had a lot of time on her hands to go surfing around'

You do realize that spyware is designed to act without the users knowledge or intervention. How long do you think a Windows 98 PC with out of date anti-virus and no firewall would last on the Internet before getting infected. If you read the rest of the article you would have read that hair-styles.org directed to new-hairstyles.com that had pornographic links that initiated pop-ups.

"Mr. Napp, the class' regular teacher logged on to the PC because Julie Amero being a substitute teacher did not have her own id and password">

"We also noted that there was no firewall and there was an outdated antivirus program on the PC. The PCwas being tracked before October 19, 2004 by adware and spyware"

"Herb Horner .. exhaustive independent forensic analysis of Amero's hard drive showed that the machine had been infected with multiple pieces of malicious software before she arrived at the school ">

was Re:Analysis of her system

• The Strange Case of Ms. Julie Amero: An Introduction
• The Strange Case of Ms. Julie Amero: Commentary by Mr. Herb Horner (Witness for the Defense)
• The Strange Case of Ms. Julie Amero: More Information In The Interlude (Covers Steve DelGiorno, CEO of ComputerCOP software, which featured in the trial)
• The Strange Case of Ms. Julie Amero: Commentary by Detective Mark Lounsbury (Witness for the Prosecution)
• The IT Management Implications of the Strange Case of Julie Amero

• The Strange Case of Ms. Julie Amero: An Introduction
• The Strange Case of Ms. Julie Amero: Commentary by Mr. Herb Horner (Witness for the Defense)
• The Strange Case of Ms. Julie Amero: More Information In The Interlude (Covers Steve DelGiorno, CEO of ComputerCOP software, which featured in the trial)
• The Strange Case of Ms. Julie Amero: Commentary by Detective Mark Lounsbury (Witness for the Prosecution)
• The IT Management Implications of the Strange Case of Julie Amero

• The Strange Case of Ms. Julie Amero: An Introduction
• The Strange Case of Ms. Julie Amero: Commentary by Mr. Herb Horner (Witness for the Defense)
• The Strange Case of Ms. Julie Amero: More Information In The Interlude (Covers Steve DelGiorno, CEO of ComputerCOP software, which featured in the trial)
• The Strange Case of Ms. Julie Amero: Commentary by Detective Mark Lounsbury (Witness for the Prosecution)
• The IT Management Implications of the Strange Case of Julie Amero

• The Strange Case of Ms. Julie Amero: An Introduction
• The Strange Case of Ms. Julie Amero: Commentary by Mr. Herb Horner (Witness for the Defense)
• The Strange Case of Ms. Julie Amero: More Information In The Interlude (Covers Steve DelGiorno, CEO of ComputerCOP software, which featured in the trial)
• The Strange Case of Ms. Julie Amero: Commentary by Detective Mark Lounsbury (Witness for the Prosecution)
• The IT Management Implications of the Strange Case of Julie Amero

• The Strange Case of Ms. Julie Amero: An Introduction
• The Strange Case of Ms. Julie Amero: Commentary by Mr. Herb Horner (Witness for the Defense)
• The Strange Case of Ms. Julie Amero: More Information In The Interlude (Covers Steve DelGiorno, CEO of ComputerCOP software, which featured in the trial)
• The Strange Case of Ms. Julie Amero: Commentary by Detective Mark Lounsbury (Witness for the Prosecution)
• The IT Management Implications of the Strange Case of Julie Amero

• The Strange Case of Ms. Julie Amero: An Introduction
• The Strange Case of Ms. Julie Amero: Commentary by Mr. Herb Horner (Witness for the Defense)
• The Strange Case of Ms. Julie Amero: More Information In The Interlude (Covers Steve DelGiorno, CEO of ComputerCOP software, which featured in the trial)
• The Strange Case of Ms. Julie Amero: Commentary by Detective Mark Lounsbury (Witness for the Prosecution)
• The IT Management Implications of the Strange Case of Julie Amero

We examined all internet related folders and files before October 19, 2004, during October 19, 2004 and after October 19, 2004. Most significantly, we noted freeze.com, screensaver.com, eharmony.com and zedo.com were being accessed regularly.

This stinks of self-promotion.

Of course it's self-promotion. Why does the guy stick his picture on the front of the article?

Attention geek bloggers: You are not attractive. Stop posting pictures of your dorky looking selves at the top of your blog.

(Note: in case you're wondering how I got so many pictures to prove my point, I simply looked up the fud tag on Slashdot and started clicking away :)

/. has the wrong link
here's the correct one
http://www.networkperformancedaily.com/2007/01/cla rification_a_case_for_nonne_1.html

Here's Yoo's response to comments that NPD graciously published to make up for it's original error.

As an aside, IMO, it's poor form to pull the original article & substitute the revised one without explaining what the flawed portions of the original were.

/. has the wrong link
here's the correct one
http://www.networkperformancedaily.com/2007/01/cla rification_a_case_for_nonne_1.html

Here's Yoo's response to comments that NPD graciously published to make up for it's original error.

As an aside, IMO, it's poor form to pull the original article & substitute the revised one without explaining what the flawed portions of the original were.

This seems very similar to the system used in New Zealand; different size money, raised textures, different colors. There is a bit of problem with the plastic currency sticking together, however, due to static cling.

-- Brian Boyko -- Network Performance Daily

While it would be sweet, the thing about GMail's POP3 service is, so far as I can tell, only sending about 300-500 e-mails per check. I've got about 30,000 e-mails on Gmail, and I basically have to wait overnight to let my computer download them all. I really would like a data file that I could just download and dump into Thunderbird. It would make it quite a bit easier when I have to reformat.

--Brian Boyko, New Media Comm. Spec., NetQoS
--www.networkperformancedaily.com