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HD Video Could 'Choke the Internet'?
richdun writes "Yahoo! is carrying an AP story explaining how ISPs are worried large streaming videos could 'choke the Internet.' This is used as a yet another reason for tiered pricing for access to content providers." From the article: "Most home Internet use is in brief bursts -- an e-mail here, a Web page there. If people start watching streaming video like they watch TV -- for hours at a time -- that puts a strain on the Internet that it wasn't designed for, ISPs say, and beefing up the Internet's capacity to prevent that will be expensive. To offset that cost, ISPs want to start charging content providers to ensure delivery of large video files, for example."
can someone fix the site? i get gay error messages all the time here. what fucking monkey programmed this shithole?
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Read the contract. They have the right to modify the contract at any point with no notice. You then have the oppertunity to renew the contract by continuing to pay.
/. You *have* to know that the current model is not sustainable. Would you prefer to see the providers go out of service trying to meet growing customer needs? Or would you allow them to price the limited commodity according to the exponential growth in demand?
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If MaBell is fucking you with the big blue dick, call SpeakEasy. No luck there? Call DirectPC. No luck there? Get the telecom to drop in a T1 line and share it between 4 neghbors.
You are on
I'd rather you do it wrong, than for me to have to do it at all.
I have cable with Telstra, at a piddling 17Mb/s.
"2. not synchronous; not occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase"
If you send dozens of 1KB blocks and then read [say an ACK] you're not working in the same period [e.g. 10x the frequency].
So shut your gob.
Tom
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If you send dozens of 1KB blocks and then read [say an ACK] you're not working in the same period [e.g. 10x the frequency].
you aren't making sense. A broadcast application on the internet would consist of one server writing and several thousand readers who do not write. That's asymmetrical, and certainly asynchronous. Async would be people watching it at different times.
So shut your gob.
Ah, shut your own.
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