At my local university 20 students were just leveraged into settling with the RIAA due to illegal downloading via campus machines. I suspect we'll see more "Settling" around campus dorms in the foreseeable future.
I unfortunately am stuck in a position in a company that propogates this very problem.
We have two tiers of service ( 1mb & 3mb )
Roughly 3000 DSL subscribers exist on our network. We have four DSLAM's on a fiber ring and the remaining 18 are fed by two bonded T1's each. So it's not very hard to see the problem. If each DSLAM averages 250 customers all with 3mbps service level fed by 3mbps pipe then "You ain't gettin' it!". Couple this with transport over a DS3 for all the sites ( Another bottleneck ). And we're really screwing people over.
This is the second ISP I've had the *joyful* opportunity to work for and the motto is the same. "Up to". This is the selling clause that helps get through the TOS and QOS disputes.
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At my local university 20 students were just leveraged into settling with the RIAA due to illegal downloading via campus machines. I suspect we'll see more "Settling" around campus dorms in the foreseeable future.
I unfortunately am stuck in a position in a company that propogates this very problem. We have two tiers of service ( 1mb & 3mb ) Roughly 3000 DSL subscribers exist on our network. We have four DSLAM's on a fiber ring and the remaining 18 are fed by two bonded T1's each. So it's not very hard to see the problem. If each DSLAM averages 250 customers all with 3mbps service level fed by 3mbps pipe then "You ain't gettin' it!". Couple this with transport over a DS3 for all the sites ( Another bottleneck ). And we're really screwing people over. This is the second ISP I've had the *joyful* opportunity to work for and the motto is the same. "Up to". This is the selling clause that helps get through the TOS and QOS disputes.