I think both of you have a valid point here. I am okay with Cox employing QoS if they publish the rules they use. If they use some hidden magic formula then, yeah, this is certainly ripe for abuse.
Andrew Baudouin wrote: > Yes, he does. > > > :casty: > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Tim Fournet <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > >From the Description: > """ > / During the occasional times the network is congested, this new > technology automatically ensures that all time-sensitive Internet > traffic — such as web pages, voice calls, streaming videos and > gaming — moves without delay. Less time-sensitive traffic, such as > file uploads, peer-to-peer and Usenet newsgroups, may be delayed > momentarily...' Sounds like throttling to me." > """ > /Sounds like QoS to me. I don't see a problem at all with giving > downloads a lower priority on the network than voice, streaming > videos, and gaming. They should have been doing this years ago when > QoS prioritization became common on most LANs and WANs. > > Do you really want your VoIP applications to stutter just so that > your neighbor can download the latest episode of Lost from > thepiratebay 20 seconds faster? > > > Will Hill wrote: >> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/28/2153242 >> >> Because of the way YouTube stutters I thought they were already doing >> this. >> They have also already been caught "managing" p2p and admit to blocking >> ports, upload speed caps and other unpleasant breakage. Didn't they >> learn >> from Comcast? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > -- > This message was scanned by ESVA and is believed to be clean. > Click here to report this message as spam. < > http://esva.puryear-it.com/cgi-bin/learn-msg.cgi?id= > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -- Dustin Puryear President and Sr. Consultant Puryear Information Technology, LLC 225-706-8414 x112 http://www.puryear-it.com Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
