Most people use their Internet connections to see the odd website, do their web banking, chat online and even download the odd ISO. And when they do, they want it to be fast.
ISP's build their pricing models around this type of usage, and are able to provide affordable broadband with (usually) good performance. They make money by buying X amount of bandwidth and selling that same bandwidth many times over and over.
If you are an intensive P2P user (read content of questionable ownership) you are going to break this model.
In this case a number of things can happen: 1) Service degrades: customers complain and move somewhere else 2) ISPs need to buy more bandwidth to cater for a small number of bandwidth intensive users: prices need to go up for the rest of us in which case customers will move somewhere else 3) ISPs put acceptable usage policies in place
Looks to me that shapping is just enforcing 3) above. Its a free market and if you don't like it: 1) Move to other provider, while they are still in business or 2) Buy a premium (read 100x more expensive) service without restrictions.:-)
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Most people use their Internet connections to see the odd website, do their web banking, chat online and even download the odd ISO. And when they do, they want it to be fast.
:-)
ISP's build their pricing models around this type of usage, and are able to provide affordable broadband with (usually) good performance. They make money by buying X amount of bandwidth and selling that same bandwidth many times over and over.
If you are an intensive P2P user (read content of questionable ownership) you are going to break this model.
In this case a number of things can happen:
1) Service degrades: customers complain and move somewhere else
2) ISPs need to buy more bandwidth to cater for a small number of bandwidth intensive users: prices need to go up for the rest of us in which case customers will move somewhere else
3) ISPs put acceptable usage policies in place
Looks to me that shapping is just enforcing 3) above. Its a free market and if you don't like it: 1) Move to other provider, while they are still in business or 2) Buy a premium (read 100x more expensive) service without restrictions.