[87290] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Two Tiered Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Tue Dec 13 23:18:16 2005
In-Reply-To: <BFC4CD9F.A6E0B%joe@via.net>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>,
Blaine Christian <blaine@blaines.net>, NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 20:17:43 -0800
To: Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> What good is 6Mbit DSL from my ISP (say, SBC for example) if only a
> small
> portion of the net (sites that pay for non-degraded access) loads at a
> reasonable speed and everything else sucks?
One might argue that in such a situation, the end user is getting
less value than they
did previously. End users might then either demand a price break or
might vote with
their connectivity.
Tony
