NY Times Technology:
Comcast Adjusts Way It Manages Internet Traffic. “Comcast said it would change its fundamental approach to playing Internet traffic cop. Instead of interfering with specific online applications, it will manage traffic by slowing the Internet speeds of its most bandwidth-hogging users when traffic is busiest.” I have a feeling they’ve been doing this anyway. I don’t torrent, but when I’m busiest, doing the most uploads to websites I’m designing, I seem to get throttled for a period of time.
Comments:
in the go-go tech world, techmeme, techcrunch, etc. no one talks about the elephant in the room, the diminishing capacity of the net in relation to the coming-online hunger of all the new services and applications… only the economist, at the beginning of the year, forecast this
the pipes will never be big enough
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Astroturf.
Comcast cannot “manage” much of their network, as they don’t “own” large portions of the physical boxes their packets traverse. Anyone who lives in an apartment complex knows what I mean.
And don’t kid yourself - they’re not “throttling” bandwidth-pigs; their network has been at/above capacity since 2003-4...*that’s* why your slow.
Notice your internet’s slower? That’s because it’s better for everybody now!‘
Blech. Thieves, the lot of ‘em.