Re:Huge ISPs want per-GB payments from Netflix, YouTube
by cookiecaper on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @12:27AM
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Well, I guess if the issue is only on upstream bandwidth, they should 1) increase the upstream rates, which are (afaik, not a phone line engineer guy) arbitrarily limited and 2) only bill upstream bandwidth usage.
The majority of immediate BT traffic is downstream too, it just has a very long tail of upstream. It can take months to get a 1:1 ratio on a download that occurred over an hour or less sometimes.
I think providers are just going to have to come to terms with the fact that consumers are demanding good access now instead of the crap they've been getting. We need reasonable speeds up and down, reasonable bandwidth limitations, and reasonably-priced solutions.
The majority of immediate BT traffic is downstream too, it just has a very long tail of upstream. It can take months to get a 1:1 ratio on a download that occurred over an hour or less sometimes.
I think providers are just going to have to come to terms with the fact that consumers are demanding good access now instead of the crap they've been getting. We need reasonable speeds up and down, reasonable bandwidth limitations, and reasonably-priced solutions.