On Feb 20, 2011, at 10:35 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote:
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Zed Usser <zzuser@yahoo.com> wrote:
Basic Internet services will work (web browsing, email, Facebook, Youtube,...), but:
Actually, many facebook and youtube features will also be degraded.
- Less torrenting - Less Netflix watching - Less FTP downloads - Less video streaming in general (webcams, etc.) You might take a hit on online gaming, but what else is there not to love? :)
You're joking, right? I don't think that most customers are going to take kindly to having their internet experience on their computer(s) reduced to what they expect from their cell phone.
Your sales department / helpdesk might have a bit of hassle of trying to undestand / explain this new Intertubes to the suck^H^H^H^Hcustomers, but most of them won't care either way.
Until some competitor who's not using NAT444 comes along and advertises that those functions work properly, maybe. Only for very liberal definitions of the phrase "won't care either way"
Tolerate != won't care Most of them != People who won't eventually tell their friends or tweet about their frustrations
Nah... Just make sure tweeting is one of the things you break along with the rest of the itner-tubes. (joking, of course).
For those who are connecting to watch Netflix, it is only marginally less annoying for the user than removing the "always on" feature of DSL, requiring customers to manually click an icon to dial in, and get a busy tone played / "All dialin 'lines are busy'" / "Please use IPv6 while you wait, wait 10 minutes and try dialing in again", if there are no global IPv4 IPs available at the moment they are trying to connect.
As long as you give them IPv6, their Netflix and Youtube will work.
Some might even strongly prefer that (time limited access and pay per connected hour) for periods of access to proper unique IPs over NAT444 brokenness;
You guys are making me very very glad that I: 1. Do not depend on my provider for IPv4 addresses. 2. Have a fully dual-stack environment at home. 3. Do not depend on my residential provider to deliver anything more than the ability to shove GRE across the internet encapsulated in whatever protocol (v4/v6) works at the time.
possibly with a customer choice between NAT444 and "time metered dynamic unique IP" and reasonably automatic simple means of switching between IP types on demand.
I encourage my competitors to try this. Owen