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RE: Greed, stupidity, arrogance, and small genitalia.... (a c orporate study on the bells)
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:13:44 GMT
Who the hell is going to pay for 'less-than-best-effort' service from an ISP? That's ludicrous. ;-) I say that, if this were come to pass, people should simply vote with their dollars -- and take their business to someone with a better business srategy -- an ISP that won't treat their traffic as 'non-premium'. Clearly, these guys have no qualms about alienating their existing residential customer base. In any event, there are a lot of reasons why this whole scheme may not take off anyways. ;-) $.02, - ferg -- "Todd Towles" <toddtowles () brookshires com> wrote:
Bear this in mind: There is no such thing as 'Better than Best Effort' in the Internet. In other words, in order to give some traffic 'preferrential' treatment, someone's traffic has to be 'penalized'. I mean, you're bound by the laws of physics -- you can't make light travel any faster across a piece of fiber than it already does, given DWDM, etc. So who's traffic gets penalized? The people who don't pay them? That's basically extortion in my book (and for what it's worth, I wrote one on QoS). :-)
Agreed, but this seems to be a clear attempt to pull on <insert targer here>'s customer base, clear and simple. They are moving from a default of all "equal" to a default of "slower" in a general sense, so now you must pay to get back to "equal"...seems like a backhanded way of building brand loyal customers...instead of doing it the old fashision way - having a good services. But I didn't write a book on QOS or anything for that matter...so those are my 2 cents (given that 2 US cents isn't even worth that much in metal) lol -Todd -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: Greed, stupidity, arrogance, and small genitalia.... (a c orporate study on the bells) Dude VanWinkle (Jan 17)
- Re: Greed, stupidity, arrogance, and small genitalia.... (a c orporate study on the bells) Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 17)
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- Re: Greed, stupidity, arrogance, and small genitalia.... (a c orporate study on the bells) Gadi Evron (Jan 17)
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- Re: Greed, stupidity, arrogance, and small genitalia.... (a c orporate study on the bells) Dude VanWinkle (Jan 17)
- Re: Greed, stupidity, arrogance, and small genitalia.... (a c orporate study on the bells) Dude VanWinkle (Jan 17)
- Re: Greed, stupidity, arrogance, and small genitalia.... (a c orporate study on the bells) Dude VanWinkle (Jan 17)
- Re: Greed, stupidity, arrogance, and small genitalia.... (a c orporate study on the bells) Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 17)
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