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Re:FCC weakens net neutrality rule in a prelude to larger ro... by wtallis on Friday February 24, 2017 @04:07PM (#13727909)
> The technical aspect of this that many people miss is that the same piece of cable can support very different traffic patterns AT THE EXPENSE OF other ones.

QoS isn't always a zero-sum game. Even non-interactive HTTP downloads benefit from reduced queuing latency, because TCP congestion control is more accurate when it gets timely feedback. On the flip side, explicit rules to never drop packets matching a certain signature often produces a negative sum game, and one that is easily abused.

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Re:FCC weakens net neutrality rule in a prelude to larger ro... by grandalf on Friday February 24, 2017 @04:09PM (#13727918)
> QoS isn't always a zero-sum game.

True, I didn't mean to imply that. Just that if you have a network cable the QoS can be used in a lot of different ways to maximize the amount of information going over the cable, and that not all optimization schemes can be used at the same time.

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