Two Tiered Internet

Wed Dec 14 14:05:43 UTC 2005

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 at 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
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>   Per Heldal
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