[Gllug] [Appallingly OT] Times Article on ABD was Fighting a virus

[Jason Clifford]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, paul at ma1.se wrote:

> I've been reading one of the ISP Boards, and the arguments are 
> remarkably similar to the road pricing row.
> 
> One ISP is throwing more Central Pipes at the P2P problem, other users
> would just like low latency and good ping times and want the heavy P2P's
> stuck on a "sin bin pipe" and traffic managed accordingly.

I have a good amount of experience with this issue.

There are 2 requirement sets from customers - reliably high speed and low 
latency.

Once you attract even a small number of heavy users you have to start 
finding ways to manage demand.

In my case, as I resell Enta products, the answer has been lots more 
central capacity and a system to reduce speeds incrementally as necessary 
is demand exceeds a certain level but with a lower floor of 2Mb which 
generally ensures there is no latency problem and only a few people 
experience a significant reduction in speeds even at busy times.

Much as with many road traffic management systems (except that there isn't 
much investment in new capacity).

Jason
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