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Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant"
From: Daniel Senie <dts () senie com>
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 10:06:58 -0500
At 05:25 AM 4/1/2006, Sean Donelan wrote:
But I think Mr. Stephenson's point was a network bottleneck is not always based on the access link speed some ISPs put in their advertising. Just go to any ISP user forum and you will see long threads complaining they can only download X Mbps from site Y in city Z. The bottleneck may be the remove server, a peering interconnect, a backbone link, a city router, etc. On the other hand, its not a good idea to generalize because other users in other cities may get better performance from other sites.
Since AT&T provides nearly all of the transit bandwidth to Comcast in New England, this thread says to me, more or less, "those folks at Comcast claim speeds they can't deliver, because the backbone they use -- which happens to be AT&T's -- is too congested to deliver those speeds anyway." Or something like that.
Yes, clearly I'm poking fun at AT&T here. Large providers who want to play in both the wholesale and retail space really should think about how their marketing in one area affects their claims in another. That's a non-marketeer's view, clearly.
Current thread:
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Sean Donelan (Apr 01)
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" David Lesher (Apr 01)
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Randy Bush (Apr 02)
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Michael . Dillon (Apr 03)
- Listen to all the companies spin (was Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant") Sean Donelan (Apr 03)
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Randy Bush (Apr 02)
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Joe Provo (Apr 01)
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Daniel Senie (Apr 01)
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Sean Donelan (Apr 01)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Marshall Eubanks (Apr 01)
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Jon Lewis (Apr 01)
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Edward B. DREGER (Apr 01)
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Robert Boyle (Apr 01)
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Jon Lewis (Apr 01)
- RE: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Frank Bulk (Apr 01)
- RE: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Edward B. DREGER (Apr 01)
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Simon Lockhart (Apr 01)
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Marshall Eubanks (Apr 01)
- RE: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Sean Donelan (Apr 01)
- RE: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Edward B. DREGER (Apr 01)
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" David Lesher (Apr 01)