To me, this seems likely to lead to massive consumer dissatisfaction, and a disaster of the magnitude of the recent Sony CD root exploit fiasco. Typical Pareto distribution models for usage mean that no matter how popular "tier 1" sites are, a substantial part of the user time will be spent on degraded "tier 2" sites. If these don't work, people will complain. Just imagine for a second that cable providers started a service that meant that every channel not owned by, say, Disney, had a bad picture and sound. Would this be good for the cable companies ? Would their customers be happy ? Of course, based on some recent experience this probably means that this will be adopted enthusiastically. Regards Marshall Eubanks On Dec 14, 2005, at 7:05 AM, Per Heldal wrote:
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:12:31 -0800, "Joe McGuckin" <joe@via.net> said:
What good is 6Mbit DSL from my ISP (say, SBC for example) if only a small portion of the net (sites that pay for non-degraded access) loads at a reasonable speed and everything else sucks?
All providers in your market would have to agree to do the same thing. Capped services only work for monopoly providers.
//per -- Per Heldal heldal@eml.cc