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Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality
From: Scott Helms <khelms () zcorum com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:21:00 -0500
Chris, "because gameservers, backups, etc don't work just fine today in the 'world of nat' ??? I'm fairly certain that I can do backups to carbonite/etc with my nat working just fun, right? I'm also fairly certain that WoW (or whatever, hell I don't play games, so I'll just say: "Angband") etc that turn the fastest user in the group into a server also work just fine..." Talk to someone at Carbonite and ask them how much effort they have to exert to make that work. Also, keep in mind that your game example is not someone running a game server as a residential subscriber, it's a residential subscriber accessing a server hosted on a dedicated network. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 -------------------------------- http://twitter.com/kscotthelms -------------------------------- On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com
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On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Scott Helms <khelms () zcorum com> wrote:"My point is that the option should be there, at the consumer level." Why? What's magical about symmetry? Is a customer better served byhavinga 5mbps/5mbps over a 25mbps/5mbps?it sort of depends on what the user is doing, right? there's some chatter that (queue akapella in 3...2....) upstream ack packet loss is actually more detrimental to user experience than downstream packet loss, so maybe more upstream just to protect (and simplify) ack management is helpful?"There are so many use cases for this, everything from personal game servers to on-line backups, that the lack of such offerings is an indication of an unhealthy market." Until we get NAT out of the way, this is actually much harder to leverage than you might think. I don't think there is anything special aboutbecause gameservers, backups, etc don't work just fine today in the 'world of nat' ??? I'm fairly certain that I can do backups to carbonite/etc with my nat working just fun, right? I'm also fairly certain that WoW (or whatever, hell I don't play games, so I'll just say: "Angband") etc that turn the fastest user in the group into a server also work just fine...symmetrical bandwidth, I do think upstream bandwidth usage is going upandwill continue to go up, but I don't see any evidence in actualperformancestats or customers sentiment to show that it's going up as fast as downstream demand.possibly because the places where this is available are so few and so far-between that 'users' don't generally know or see this? so ... err, they won't know if it's better for their usecases or not.
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- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality, (continued)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality James R Cutler (Feb 27)
- RE: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Naslund, Steve (Feb 27)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality James R Cutler (Feb 27)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Michael Thomas (Feb 27)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Miles Fidelman (Feb 28)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Steve Clark (Feb 28)
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- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Scott Helms (Feb 28)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Jack Bates (Feb 28)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Miles Fidelman (Feb 28)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Christopher Morrow (Feb 27)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Scott Helms (Feb 27)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Christopher Morrow (Feb 27)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Scott Helms (Feb 27)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Christopher Morrow (Feb 27)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Scott Helms (Feb 27)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Christopher Morrow (Feb 27)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Jack Bates (Feb 27)
- RE: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Naslund, Steve (Feb 27)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Barry Shein (Feb 28)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Mike Hammett (Feb 28)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Jack Bates (Feb 28)