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Hunting the Mythical "Bandwidth Hog"
eldavojohn writes "Benoit Felten, an analyst in Paris, has heard enough of the elusive creature known as the bandwidth hog. Like its cousin the Boogie Man, the 'bandwidth hog' is a tale that ISPs tell their frightened users to keep them in check or to cut off whoever they want to cut off from service. And Felten's calling them out because he's certain that bandwidth hogs don't exist. What's actually happening is the ISPs are selecting the top 5% of users, by volume of bits that move on their wire, and revoking their service, even if they aren't negatively impacting other users. Which means that they are targeting 'heavy users' simply for being 'heavy users.' Felten has thrown down the gauntlet asking for a standardized data set from any telco that he can do statistical analysis on that will allow him to find any evidence of a single outlier ruining the experience for everyone else. Unlikely any telco will take him up on that offer but his point still stands." Felten's challenge is paired with a more technical look at how networks operate, which claims that TCP/IP by its design eliminates the possibility of hogging bandwidth. But Wes Felter corrects that mis-impression in a post to a network neutrality mailing list.
Wow... I do not think you could have missed the mark on those any more if you had tried (which I am not sure you were not trying)
Anyway about the Car? The answer is No I could drive it anywhere I wanted to. I had to get it in certain places but I could drive it any where I wanted to. It was a lease I could do as a please and then return it and pay the extra penalty.
Dish: The answer is no. Again I can watch any channel on cable once it is decrypted but I do not have to watch 2 hours of CBS before I watch something else. It does not matter how much or how little I watch I paid for the channels I get to watch them when I like.
DVD Player: Wow really Blu-ray? What does that have to do with connecting a DVD player to a Sony TV. I think you just wanted to contradict me and would have put down a flying squirrel if you could make it fit.
Telephone: Really you are going to go so far as to compare my leased line with a service level agreement to a free service. Come on you are not even trying.
No it is not more complicated that it would seem. I was sold 5 Mb line I should get to use 5Mb it was the telco's idea to sell it I did not make a special deal with them. They offered it and sold it to me they should be able to support it and EXPECT me to you it.
----- So what ISP do you work for?
What you fail to not realize is that your setup doesn't "scale" to ISP backbone levels.
Where the fuck did I say that they needed to use "my setup"? I said that it stands to reason that a company with the resources of Comcast could manage to do something similar.
Thanks for completely ignoring my fucking point though.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.