RE: Greed, stupidity, arrogance, and small genitalia.... (a c orporate study on the bells)

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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/


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