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Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance
From: Bill Nash <billn () billn net>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:56:52 -0800 (PST)
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Korea Telecom recently decided to scrap its flat rate high speed [1] broadband offering and move to a traffic based charging plan - must be because most korean broadband gets used for online gaming, which is as high bandwidth use an app as you can get ... and they're hit by the same situation, which does start to bite when a few users start maxing out their pipes, and really begins to hurt when "few" suddenly becomes "most"
Actually, gaming usually isn't a high bandwidth app, it's merely sensitive to latency. The flows are longer, and I'd imagine with Korea's gaming addiction, highly numerous, but really only large when taken in volume. Now, downloading large patches or entire games.. that's another story, of course.
This is one of the problems things like BitTorrent is designed to tackle. A time-lapse flow matrix demonstrating the effects of BitTorrent on egress traffic would be an interesting project.
- billn
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- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance, (continued)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Adrian Chadd (Mar 30)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Bill Nash (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Greg Boehnlein (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Joe Abley (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Randy Bush (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Greg Boehnlein (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Greg Boehnlein (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Eric A. Hall (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Suresh Ramasubramanian (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Bill Nash (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Mikael Abrahamsson (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Randy Bush (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Lucy E. Lynch (Mar 31)
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