They're probably trying to save a few bucks on interconnectivity and
peering agreements, on the assumption that traffic within their
already-existing network is "free."
Yeah right... It has nothing to do with saving Interconnect dollars.
Comcast's download ratios are already way higher than upload even with
BitTorrent full force, and probably are already getting paid for the peering
relationships if anything because of their ratios.
What they are doing here is sending a message that if you Buy Comcast you
get performance, if you buy from our competitors, you won;t ahve performance
because we control the majority market, and we won't let you play with our
clients in a favorable manner. This is EXACTLY what NetNetrality is about,
having a different standard for clients of another provider than one has for
their own. If they Equally blocked BitTotrrent for their own subscribers,
then it could be argued they are treating all traffic equally, and not a
NetNetrality violation, but just a Privacy violation.
Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
----- Original Message -----
From: "David E. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P
CHUCK PROFITO wrote:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071019/D8SCASQ80.html
Comcast has been doing this for a few months, actually. By most accounts,
the traffic is throttled at their network edges - i.e. two Comcast
customers can trade files all they want, the throttling only kicks in when
one of them tries to exchange data with a non-Comcast peer.
My network throttles peer-to-peer traffic because that traffic does really
nasty things to our customer APs (the last-mile hop). Comcast isn't doing
anything there, according to the reports I've seen.
They're probably trying to save a few bucks on interconnectivity and
peering agreements, on the assumption that traffic within their
already-existing network is "free."
David Smith
MVN.net
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