more on Phone, Cable Firms Rein In Consumers' Internet Use

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: DV Henkel-Wallace <gumby () henkel-wallace org>
Date: October 23, 2005 7:30:23 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Phone, Cable Firms Rein In Consumers' Internet Use


People who make comments like the one I have excerpted below miss the  
point.  Bittorrent actually helps these operators by smoothing the  
bandwidth consumed by downloading distros and video and actually make  
the network apparently faster for those same users!

Are such comments due to ignorance or mendaciousness?  By now I have  
come to believe the latter.

I think these guys just can't get comfortable with the idea that  
their customers might sometime benefit without paying a premium for  
the privilege.

-d

On Oct 22, 2005, at 13:37 , David Farber wrote:

> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Date: October 22, 2005 12:29:57 PM EDT
>
> Big Operators See Threat To Service as Web Calls, Videos Clog Up  
> Networks
> By PETER GRANT and JESSE DRUCKER
> Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
> October 21, 2005; Page A1
> [...]
> One kind of video-file-sharing software alone, called BitTorrent,  
> accounted for 18% of Internet traffic on U.S. cable operators'  
> networks this year, according to a recent CableLabs survey. "These  
> applications, run unchecked, could consume all of the bandwidth  
> available in the network," says Ralph Brown, CableLabs' chief  
> technology officer.




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