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> I still thing net neutrality must take into consideration that not all internet traffic have the same needs. How do you know the needs of different internet
by anamax 16y ago
> I still thing net neutrality must take into consideration that not all internet traffic have the same needs.
How do you know the needs of different internet traffic?
For example, how do you know that a given video stream "needs" higher priority than a given of e-mail? Yes, I'm aware that video is disrupted by jitter and e-mail isn't, but that doesn't tell you anything about the "needs" of specific content.
For example, do you really think that chatroulette "needs" priority over e-mail telling someone how to defuse a bomb?
- mishmash 16y agoExactly, my cable ISP is Cox and they have been traffic shaping for years. That means my neighbor's PornTube traffic already has priority over my FTP session to a clients server. Its underlying traffic shaping method: at times of congestion, all “time-sensitive” traffic – which it defines to include Web pages, voice calls, streaming video, VPN tunneling and games – would not be delayed. However, less time-sensitive traffic, including FTP transfers, network storage, P2P, software updates and Usenet groups, could be. http://connectedplanetonline.com/residential_services/news/cox-traffic-shaping-method-0128/ http://connectedplanetonline.com/residential_services/news/c...
- Unseelie 16y agoIn that very framed particular, no. But when its the aggregate of a great many videos, (some of which might be talking about bombs) and the aggregate of emails, emails with lagtimes do not involve the frustration and loss of value that video with lagtime does, and that has to do with the nature of the mediums. Mail is not a call, it is not a direct contact with a person, mail is leaving a message, which the recipient reads when they are available, unlike a call, where the users have made themselves available.