> At 03:09 PM 11/12/2009, you wrote: > >I've been watching the thread about it with great interest. Partly > >because I was wondering if anyone was going to try "my solution", which is, > >to attempt to be able to deliver the bandwidth to the people who want to use > >these, and have them work fine. > > > >Please understand, I'm not talking about a prioritizing scheme, which puts > >video ahead of surfing, etc.
This is a good point. The fact is, that a GOOD bandwidth manager will allow traffic to flow as fast as possible. One thing to bear in mind, with regard to my QOS system, is that I don't speed limit ANYTHING. I simply prioritize traffic so that the time sensitive stuff gets out first. There is no reason to limit even P2P if there is available bandwidth. Every class that I give that covers QOS, I restate this one maxim: "QOS is not simply LIMITING bandwidth. Rather, QOS is about MANAGING the available bandwidth resources." There is an important distinction there that your comments don't take into account. > >We're thinking about how we're going to meet the demands of the near > >future... not managing a shortage of bandwidth delivery. Even with sufficient bandwidth available, there are links and network infrastructure where a good QOS mechanism will benefit the network. > >I'm thinking of planning on a future delivery of 4 to 6 meg per customer, > >oversubscribed to around 4 to 6 to one. For many, 4:1 would mean out of business. Even at 10:1, many would not survive. There are places in this country where bandwidth is still quite expensive ($200/Meg would sound GOOD to some people). Even at that price, a 4:1 ratio is $50/customer before you add in ANY costs. Even 10:1 is to high. It would be NICE if the price for wholesale BW came down, but too many folks do not have the benefit of reasonable bandwidth. -- ******************************************************************** * Butch Evans * Professional Network Consultation* * http://www.butchevans.com/ * Network Engineering * * http://www.wispa.org/ * Wired or Wireless Networks * * http://blog.butchevans.com/ * ImageStream, Mikrotik and MORE! * ******************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
