[100348] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geo.)
Mon Oct 22 06:16:02 2007
From: "Geo." <geoincidents@nls.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200710220325.l9M3Pj2D069415@aurora.sol.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:07:07 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> One of the things to remember is that many customers are simply looking
> for Internet access, but couldn't tell a megabit from a mackerel.
That may have been true 5 years ago, it's not true today. People learn.
> Here's an interesting issue. I recently learned that the local RR
> affiliate has changed its service offerings. They now offer 7M/512k resi
> for $45/mo, or 14M/1M for $50/mo (or thereabouts, prices not exact).
>
> Now, does anybody really think that the additional capacity that they're
> offering for just a few bucks more is real, or are they just playing the
> numbers for advertising purposes?
Windstream offers 6m/384k for $29.95 and 6m/768k for $100, does that answer
your question? What is comcast's upspeed, is it this low or is comcast's
real problem that they offer 1m or more of upspeed for too cheap a price?
Hmmm.. perhaps it's not the customers who don't know a megabit from a
mackerel but instead perhaps it's comcast who thinks customers are stupid
and as a result they've ended up with the people who want upspeed?
Geo.
George Roettger
Netlink Services
