On 9/17/2010 11:27 AM, Chris Woodfield wrote:
How would you feel if you paid for priority access to hulu.com <http://hulu.com> via this means, only to see your carrier de-prioritize that traffic because they're getting a check from Netflix?
The same as I'd feel if netflix paid them for pop transit which bypassed the congestion (even if it was via mpls-te or dedicated circuit instead of just priorities on a congested link). Netflix apparently felt that there was value in having a higher class of service and paid for it. Of course, I'd be against congested links in my ISP to begin with. I'd move and get a new ISP if I could. If I was stuck, then I'd be stuck. My distaste for my ISP having congested links wouldn't equate to distaste that a content provider paid to have better class of service due to the ISP having poor overall service. If said class of service completely wiped out the bandwidth and caused all normal traffic to be unusable, then the ISP most likely is in violation of their agreement with me (ie, not providing access, as it is unusable). This would be no different than selling off bandwidth to commercial grade customers to the point that consumer grade didn't work at all. Jack