I'm sort of baffled about why there is such low-level discourse on this topic. Can someone explain to me in some way that makes logical sense why there SHOULDN'T be "QoS" for the big tubes of the internet? Call it fast lane or slow lane: whatever. In every other walk of life, there is prioritization of some things over others
- i don't ship everything at the post office using the same "speed of service"
- i use QoS for packets on my LAN
- i return emails from my contacts before those from non-contacts
- i use different amazon web service instance sizes for different tasks
so, why shouldn't the internet work the same way? can someone please help me figure out why so many seemingly smart people scream murder when anyone proposes something (packet prioritization) that seems so completely logical?
i would LOVE to have my voice over ip have lower latency than my bittorrent traffic. and i'd be willing to pay more for THOSE packets to make it that way.
please don't reply saying that the corrupt telephone companies will screw it up... just tell me why my utopian concept is wrong... tell me why every packet being treated the same way is smart. because in all of the above cases (and pretty much all other tasks i can think of), prioritization/triage/binning is a good thing.
and before you say it, no i have no connection to anything internet.
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I'm sort of baffled about why there is such low-level discourse on this topic. Can someone explain to me in some way that makes logical sense why there SHOULDN'T be "QoS" for the big tubes of the internet? Call it fast lane or slow lane: whatever. In every other walk of life, there is prioritization of some things over others
- i don't ship everything at the post office using the same "speed of service"
- i use QoS for packets on my LAN
- i return emails from my contacts before those from non-contacts
- i use different amazon web service instance sizes for different tasks
so, why shouldn't the internet work the same way? can someone please help me figure out why so many seemingly smart people scream murder when anyone proposes something (packet prioritization) that seems so completely logical?
i would LOVE to have my voice over ip have lower latency than my bittorrent traffic. and i'd be willing to pay more for THOSE packets to make it that way.
please don't reply saying that the corrupt telephone companies will screw it up... just tell me why my utopian concept is wrong... tell me why every packet being treated the same way is smart. because in all of the above cases (and pretty much all other tasks i can think of), prioritization/triage/binning is a good thing.
and before you say it, no i have no connection to anything internet.