[IP] more on Phone, Cable Firms Rein In Consumers' Internet Use
Begin forwarded message:
From: DV Henkel-Wallace <gumby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: October 23, 2005 7:30:23 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Phone, Cable Firms Rein In Consumers' Internet Use
People who make comments like the one I have excerpted below miss the
point. Bittorrent actually helps these operators by smoothing the
bandwidth consumed by downloading distros and video and actually make
the network apparently faster for those same users!
Are such comments due to ignorance or mendaciousness? By now I have
come to believe the latter.
I think these guys just can't get comfortable with the idea that
their customers might sometime benefit without paying a premium for
the privilege.
-d
On Oct 22, 2005, at 13:37 , David Farber wrote:
From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: October 22, 2005 12:29:57 PM EDT
Big Operators See Threat To Service as Web Calls, Videos Clog Up
Networks
By PETER GRANT and JESSE DRUCKER
Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
October 21, 2005; Page A1
[...]
One kind of video-file-sharing software alone, called BitTorrent,
accounted for 18% of Internet traffic on U.S. cable operators'
networks this year, according to a recent CableLabs survey. "These
applications, run unchecked, could consume all of the bandwidth
available in the network," says Ralph Brown, CableLabs' chief
technology officer.
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