The mistake people make is to fall into the well constructed trap of thinking that they're going to wind up paying more for less. That's simply not the case. Yes ISPs are businesses, but they don't just take all their profits off the top and roll about on piles of money - that capital largely is put back into the network to provide better service for their customers - ie you guys.
The internet is not the same place it was when ISPs were mostly providing service through telephone lines. Today it is obvious that not all packets are equal.
Gaming demands low latency, but has fairly low total throughput. VoIP is similar. Downloads demand high throughput, but latency isn't really an issue. There's all sorts of types of traffic, which modern technology like deep packet inspection boxes can identify and deal with according to what that traffic most needs. I've done much the same sort of thing myself, on my own network at home - by setting up a more intelligent queueing method on my cable connection (than the default FIFO), and marking bittorrent traffic with a low priority, I could have torrents running flat-out, and still play online games with normal ping times, since that traffic is inserted into the link before those belonging to the torrents. My torrents are slowed down imperceptibly and completely automatically to allow the gaming traffic through as it's needed. The alternative would be to have an unworkably bad ping for gaming, or to manually throttle the torrents down to a greater degree to give the 'breathing space' the other traffic needed. With a more intelligent traffic management strategy though, I get the best of both worlds. Being able to apply advanced traffic management techniques means you get a better service without it actually taking up any more resources - making more efficient use of what's already there...
That's an ISPs business. Providing you with a service. Why on earth does everyone believe in these scare tactics?
The internet is not the same place it was when ISPs were mostly providing service through telephone lines. Today it is obvious that not all packets are equal.
Gaming demands low latency, but has fairly low total throughput. VoIP is similar. Downloads demand high throughput, but latency isn't really an issue. There's all sorts of types of traffic, which modern technology like deep packet inspection boxes can identify and deal with according to what that traffic most needs. I've done much the same sort of thing myself, on my own network at home - by setting up a more intelligent queueing method on my cable connection (than the default FIFO), and marking bittorrent traffic with a low priority, I could have torrents running flat-out, and still play online games with normal ping times, since that traffic is inserted into the link before those belonging to the torrents. My torrents are slowed down imperceptibly and completely automatically to allow the gaming traffic through as it's needed. The alternative would be to have an unworkably bad ping for gaming, or to manually throttle the torrents down to a greater degree to give the 'breathing space' the other traffic needed. With a more intelligent traffic management strategy though, I get the best of both worlds. Being able to apply advanced traffic management techniques means you get a better service without it actually taking up any more resources - making more efficient use of what's already there...
That's an ISPs business. Providing you with a service. Why on earth does everyone believe in these scare tactics?
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