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> People streaming HD video from cell towers is simply crazy. Most people aren't objecting to rationing, per say. (Though, misleading advertising of available
by KMag 9y ago
> People streaming HD video from cell towers is simply crazy.
Most people aren't objecting to rationing, per say. (Though, misleading advertising of available bandwidth does lead to disappointed customers.)
What most are objecting to is unequal provisioning of bandwidth. This incentivizes users to use a VPN (doubling aggregate bandwidth consumption) or use steganography to make the traffic look like voice calls (at significant reduction in transfer efficiency).
Everyone would benefit if service providers rolled out provisioning that incentivized application programmers to truthfully mark traffic using QoS / ToS ... unlimited bandwidth at lowest priority, limited bandwidth if low latency is required.
Instead, they're doing the exact opposite... encouraging P2P developers to encrypt the traffic and then use the ciphertext bitstream to drive an Nth order Markov model that makes it look like compressed voice or HTTP traffic... sort of LZMA in reverse. It becomes a cat-and-mouse game where even the cat loses in the end.
- problems 9y ago> Everyone would benefit if service providers rolled out provisioning that incentivized application programmers to truthfully mark traffic using QoS / ToS ... unlimited bandwidth at lowest priority, limited bandwidth if low latency is required. So what you're saying is, I can run a few iptables rules on my phone and prioritize all my traffic ahead of everyone else's? Sweet. QoS in a LAN is fine, QoS using untrusted devices just plain doesn't work.
- KMag 9y agoBy all means, have a great time with your high priority 56 kbps, you amazing haXX0r, you, while my background phone app install gets wildly swinging bandwidth between 0 and 2 Mbps, averaging 750 kbps. That's the reduced bandwidth portion of my comment. Give the application the ability to make explicit bandwidth vs. latency tradeoff decisions, or at least hints, that the routers otherwise need to make via heuristics.