TV with DVR & Internet: $84.90/moAn Open Letter to Comcast and Every cable/Telco on P2P
I'm not a Comcast customer. I happen to get service from Verizon, ATT and Time Warner at various locations where I pay for internet service.
If I was a Comcast customer, I would tell them, as I am now telling all the services I am a customer of:
BLOCK P2P TRAFFIC , PLEASE
As a consumer, I want my internet experience to be as fast as possible. The last thing I want slowing my internet service down are P2P freeloaders. Thats right, P2P content distributors are nothing more than freeloaders. The only person/organization that benefits from P2P usage are those that are trying to distribute content and want to distribute it on someone else's bandwidth dime.
Does anyone really think its free ? That all the bandwidth consumed with content being distributed by P2P isn't being paid for by someone ? That bandwidth is being paid for by consumers. Consumers who pay for personal, not commercial applications. When consumers provide their bandwidth to assist commercial applications, they are subsidizing those commercial applications which if it isn't already, should be against an ISPs terms of service.
Thats not to say there isnt a place for P2P. There is. P2P is probably the least efficient means of distributing content in the last mile. Comcast, Time Warner, etc should charge a premium to those users who want to act as a seed and relay for P2P traffic. After all, that is why P2P is used, right ? For content distributors to avoid significant bandwidth and hosting charges. That makes it commercial traffic far more often than not. So make them pay commercial rates.
That will stop P2P dead in its tracks. P2P isnt so good that people will use it when they have to pay for all the bandwidth it consumes. It will die a quick death. That will speed up my internet connection.
thats a good thing.
So hang in there Comcast
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Mark Cuban co-founded Broadcast.com in 1992 and is currently the owner of the Dallas Mavericks.
And for my strictly personal opinion. You must have absolutetly no taste in music. Some of the best stuff out there cannot be had from the major online retailers. Unless you live in a larger city with stores carrying a good stock of imports and obscure music, you're out of luck. I wont get into the legalities of it, bet there are tons of people who legally buy most of their music and only resort to P2P for stuff that can't be found anywhere else.
In all seriousness, this is why some service providers have download caps on connectivity packages. If the market won't bear the burden, it'll self correct... There's an analog to be found in vehicles... If I were to drive an SUV, I pay more in fuel costs than someone with a smaller vehicle. However, you also reap the benefits from the economy of scale. If you're comparing one home user to another and assuming one is a P2P sharer and the other a simple web browser, I would agree with the other commenter in that there are any number of legitimate (?) uses of this bandwidth beyond P2P. (YouTube, anyone?)
speeds for me and for the average consumer.
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by kasaghn
June 28, 2009 9:34 PM PDT
- Okay lets make the world simple for you slow folks out there. I was an engineer who designed the software and network grid designs for Bellsouth yes the New ATT bought us out and I left but thats another story.
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(9 Comments)The internet works like this you pay for a set amount of acess to the "web" for example basic cable internet where i am from will cost you about 40 plus fees every month. You are buying about 200-500 Mbps (megabytes per second) of transfer speed usually limited to 2/3 full speed down and 1/3 up so at max run you wont exceed you bandwidth.
If you pay the 178 dollars a month I pay for fibernet you can get up to 3Gbps (Gigabytes persecond) of transfer. Yes this rocks for gaming cause not server is using the kind of bandwidth I have. I pay a premium for a service that honestly I never use to its full potential but I like it. The problem is it will probably be 5 to 10 years before everyone else starts to catch up and go beyond th middle ground of 700Mbps to 1.3Gbps (where most high end servers run).
What does all this mean well just that p2p does not use "your" bandwidth it uses "theirs" in a most stupid way but none the less "theirs". You want more speed buy more speed don't believe me call your local providers and dont just call one call all listed in your phone book cause there will be more than you think available to you.