Bandwidth shaping is not a new technology. All ISP's use it in some fashion to make the playing field even. If I'm going to use all the bandwidth in the pipe then nobody else will be able to use the bandwidth when they want to surf the net.
Bandwidth shaping is a tool ISP's use to control the pipe hogs. Ports can be adjusted per user to allow only the amount set, with many variations including priority traffic for VoIP to reduce jitter. There is so much and ISP can do to balance the load between their systems and the backbone their connected to, and don't think they do do it because they want to. It's a situation where the load is dynamic and the bandwidth controller is the traffic cop(s) doing the directing. P2P doesn't present a big problem because they just choke the pipe after a predetermined amount of data or time passes. One simply believes the P2P servers are the culprit when in reality the culprit is your ISP. Port 80 is the most commonly used for web pages. It's also the port used for bandwidth speed test by most ISP's even though other ports can be used. This port typically has a short burst(s) of use and therefore is what most ISP's base their advertised speed to be. If you've checked your speed that's advertised to be 1.5mbps and it test higher, then it means the load on the system is light. The slower test speeds indicate heaver traffic.
The Time Warner see $ coming their way with internet usage fees varying, anticipating revenue lost when people start downloading movies from Netflix and other internet movie download sites. Pay-per-view will not hold much of an audience when you consider you can download any movie @ 6mbps streaming while your watching it.
If the plan goes a expected then all the others (AT&T, Verizon,Comcast) will do the same. But customer will resist and eventually accept it, after all, just look @ HugesNet and Wildblue. They cap the daily usage and slow your speed down to dialup speeds when you exceed the Fair Access Policy. Those users don't have a chance to download movies. I was a former HugesNet user. I should know.
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Bandwidth shaping is not a new technology. All ISP's use it in some fashion to make the playing field even. If I'm going to use all the bandwidth in the pipe then nobody else will be able to use the bandwidth when they want to surf the net. Bandwidth shaping is a tool ISP's use to control the pipe hogs. Ports can be adjusted per user to allow only the amount set, with many variations including priority traffic for VoIP to reduce jitter. There is so much and ISP can do to balance the load between their systems and the backbone their connected to, and don't think they do do it because they want to. It's a situation where the load is dynamic and the bandwidth controller is the traffic cop(s) doing the directing. P2P doesn't present a big problem because they just choke the pipe after a predetermined amount of data or time passes. One simply believes the P2P servers are the culprit when in reality the culprit is your ISP. Port 80 is the most commonly used for web pages. It's also the port used for bandwidth speed test by most ISP's even though other ports can be used. This port typically has a short burst(s) of use and therefore is what most ISP's base their advertised speed to be. If you've checked your speed that's advertised to be 1.5mbps and it test higher, then it means the load on the system is light. The slower test speeds indicate heaver traffic. The Time Warner see $ coming their way with internet usage fees varying, anticipating revenue lost when people start downloading movies from Netflix and other internet movie download sites. Pay-per-view will not hold much of an audience when you consider you can download any movie @ 6mbps streaming while your watching it. If the plan goes a expected then all the others (AT&T, Verizon,Comcast) will do the same. But customer will resist and eventually accept it, after all, just look @ HugesNet and Wildblue. They cap the daily usage and slow your speed down to dialup speeds when you exceed the Fair Access Policy. Those users don't have a chance to download movies. I was a former HugesNet user. I should know.