[100549] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri Oct 26 02:42:31 2007
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:22:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Paul Ferguson <fergdawg@netzero.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20071025.221835.4537.0@webmail15.vgs.untd.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Paul Ferguson wrote:
> As a consumer/customer, I say "Don't sell it it if you can't
> deliver it." And not just "sometimes" or "only during foo time".
>
> All the time. Regardless of my applications. I'm paying for it.
I think you have confused a circuit switch network with a packet
switched network.
If you want a specific capacity 24x7x365 buy a circuit, i.e. T1, T3, OCx.
It costs more, but it will be your capacity 100% of the time.
There is a reason why shared capacity costs less than dedicated capacity.
