[79143] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric A. Hall)
Thu Mar 31 10:35:31 2005
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:32:18 -0600
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
To: Greg Boehnlein <damin@nacs.net>
Cc: Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>,
Bill Nash <billn@billn.net>,
"Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0503311017220.12202-100000@nucleus.nacs.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 3/31/2005 9:25 AM, Greg Boehnlein wrote:
> On a different tact, where I -THINK- the market will eventually end up is
> w/ different classes of BroadBand service, whereby QOS and priority will
> be given to those that wish to pay for it. The $14.95 services will be a
> best-effort, and the $59.95 services will have priority.
We've there already. When I had my home-office DSL package from XO it was
much more expensive than consumer DSL from pacbell, for example, but gave
me the ability to run local servers, non-blocking network ranges, etc.
Meanwhille, cable contracts are pretty much written such that the service
is only supposed to be used for ~web browsing and other basic tasks, and
if you want reliability or better bandwidth then call the business service
number. I don't see this much in the local provider market though.
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