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

[paul at ma1.se]

Peter Childs wrote:
> On 20/02/07, Caroline Ford <caroline.ford.work at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> John Hearns wrote:
>> > paul at ma1.se wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Hey I thought you were going to say that bus lanes were like leased
>> >> lines and the remaining car lanes, more a contended ADSL service with
>> >> lots of P2P on it, then we would almost have been on topic!
>> > Bus lanes have a larger packet size too.
>> Fibre optics for the masses!
>>
>> I expect some will still want their own, individual dial-up though.
>> Strange but true.
>>
>> Caroline
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> 
> I would say trains were more like Fibre Optics where as Busses and
> Cars run along standard cables.
> 
> I can't quite see why Busses are like TCP, I would say more like UDP:
> You wait ages for 1 and 2 come at once.
> 
> Peter..

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.

regards

Paul Lee

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