Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

[Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Brandon Galbraith wrote:

> I think no matter what happens, it's going to be very interesting as Comcast
> rolls out DOCSIS 3.0 (with speeds around 100-150Mbps possible), Verizon FIOS

Well, according to wikipedia DOCSIS 3.0 gives 108 megabit/s upstream as 
opposed to 27 and 9 megabit/s for v2 and v1 respectively. That's not what 
I would call revolution as I still guess hundreds if not thousands of 
subscribers share those 108 megabit/s, right? Yes, fourfold increase but 
... that's still only factor 4.

> expands it's offering (currently, you can get 50Mb/s down and 30Mb/sec up),
> etc. If things are really as fragile as some have been saying, then the
> bottlenecks will slowly make themselves apparent.

Upstream capacity will still be scarce on shared media as far as I can 
see.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike () swm pp se