I don't see providers ever pushing it that far down the stream. Would you be willing to pay more for your consumer connection to maintain those types of features? Business connections, absolutely. It's really about controlling bandwidth on the shared link, not your individual home connection. So for connectivity feeding a neighborhood or apartment building the question arises do you allow multiple users to use all of the bandwidth for P2P and crowd out your Netflix traffic? The question is should Netflix have to pay more to ensure quality service to their streaming subscribers? I view this exercise as paying for priority when the circuit is full -- like a special carpool lane. It's not like the provider will randomly send you traffic you don't want. If Netflix sucks do you blame your provider or Netflix? In the end, do you switch providers or cancel Netflix? My guess is most consumers will cancel Netflix before they switch their Internet provider. Not saying that this can't be abused by providers not having in enough capacity and content companies bidding to be most important on the circuit. On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Kenny Sallee <kenny.sallee@gmail.com>wrote:
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Nathan Eisenberg <nathan@atlasnetworks.us>wrote:
Is there a performance difference between the Internet and Internet2? Should that be allowed, or must all IP networks have the same performance?
I think that statement may confuse metrics like performance and capacity, with the action of intentionally QOS'ing Netflix over Youtube over the same uplink. One is a reality, and one offers disturbing possibilities.
Best Regards, Nathan Eisenberg
Maybe the ISP's should move this choice to the consumer. The last mile is 'usually' where congestion really hits. Why not build a portal for consumers to go in an choose what's important to them? I know some MPLS VPN providers do something similar (have a portal businesses can use to view and modify QoS settings). I'd love to be able to prioritize Netflix over youtube or bittorrent or whatever games my kids are playing since I mainly use Netflix to watch movies. But I wouldn't like the big guys dictating what is important to me.