On Sep 16, 2010, at 10:57 AM, George Bonser wrote:
I DO have a problem with a content provider paying to get priority access on the last mile. I have no particular interest in any of the content that Yahoo provides, but I do have an interest in downloading my Linux updates via torrents. Should I have to go back and bid against Yahoo just so I can get my packets in a timely fashion? </end user>
I understand that the last mile is going to be a congestion point, but the idea of allowing a bidding war for priority access for that capacity seems to be a path to madness.
--Chris
Hi Chris,
Since prioritization would work ONLY when the link us saturated (congested), without it, nothing is going to work well, not your torrents, not your email, not your browsing. By prioritizing the traffic, the torrents might back off but they would still continue to flow, they wouldn't be completely blocked, they would just slow down. QoS can be a good thing for allowing your VIOP to work while someone else in the home is watching a streaming movie or something. Without it, everything breaks once the circuit is congested.
It depends. If you're talking about prioritization of the end link, then, that's one thing... If the ISP wants to implement prioritization there based on the END USER's preferences, that's a nice value-add service. If you're talking about the aggregation point of several customer's links, then, prioritizing customer A's Yahoo traffic because Yahoo paid over customer B's torrent traffic when customer A and B have paid the same for their connection is not so good, IMHO. Owen