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>appropriate pipes to get to where their customers want to go. This idea is nonsensical. What if I want to go to somewhere that is three times removed from my
by wang_li 7y ago
>appropriate pipes to get to where their customers want to go.
This idea is nonsensical. What if I want to go to somewhere that is three times removed from my ISP. Comcast has zero capability to force some South Korean ISP that is providing services to some website to increase their bandwidth with their upstream who is peered with whoever owns the undersea cable that is peered with the company that peers with Comcast.
The alternative is that Netflix asks for 40 Gbps to Comcast and suddenly Comcast is obligated to provide 40 Gbps to every one of its customers.
What we've always gotten with an ISP is a given link rate to our ISP. Beyond that it's always been a crap shoot.
- jedberg 7y agoIf everyone up to the network edge is willing to pay for the equipment to get the packets there, and your customers are asking for the data, then yes, you have an obligation to deliver what you promised to your customer.
- wang_li 7y agoThey promised X mbps between the customer and the customer's provider's network.