Read here.
Here’s an interesting note about internet traffic and what is the leading cause of the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) buckling down and putting speed limits on us. I always assumed the majority of the bandwidth was being used by those vermin out there that downloaded TV shows through Torrents all day long to the point where they have more TV shows than they actually have time to watch.
But no, it turns out that it’s the people who watch YouTube videos all day long that suck up the bandwidth. Boy, am I glad that I’m not one of those fools.
Here’s another message written by Michael Geist who is a professor at University of Ottawa and is the guy to go to for this stuff. Read here for some surprising talk about how Peer-to-Peer (P2P) applications are NOT the bandwidth hogs we all thought they were.
The war is on.
4 replies on “Net Neutrality Article – Bandwidth Hogs”
Wow, I find it amazing that Bell only has enough bandwidth to handle 15% of their users at a time.
If I buy bandwidth, I expect to be able to use said bandwidth, I mean hey, I paid for a 7Mbit connection so I can use 7Mbit, if I wanted to be throttled to 200k I would have paid for the 200k connection.
Call me crazy, I must be living in a fantasy world, where bacon, ham AND pork chops all come from the same MAGICAL animal.
I’m glad to have informed you of the atrocity that these ISPs are committing. Net neutrality for all!
net neutrality and bandwidth are two different subjects here.
Net Neutrality is the right to transfer whatever we want and the ISP cannot filter or interfere with.
but I agree with Matt, you pay for 3-5Mbps I want the full 3-5 Mbps
Right. The talk of bandwidth is the talk of how they are traffic shaping all P2P traffic with is encroaching on ‘the right to transfer whatever we want’. hence, they are interfering with it.
So yeah, it’s the same subject but I know what you’re getting at. I should have been more specific and said “the shaping of bandwidth depending on the usage for P2P applications”.