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> It should allow them to be consistent about it and rate-limit everyone evenly, which would have the same effect. That's an allocation of about 450kbit/sec (~
by cheald 12y ago
> It should allow them to be consistent about it and rate-limit everyone evenly, which would have the same effect.
That's an allocation of about 450kbit/sec (~56kb/sec) down per seat on a 737 assuming the plane is outfitted with GoGo's latest tech. Upload would be a tiny fraction of that. It's in everyone's interest to disallow high-throughput usage while permitting burstable high-bandwidth low-throughput usage.
"Bright line" rules that no type or source of content may be discriminated against by carriers only make sense if bandwidth is not a scarce resource.
- Dylan16807 12y ago400kbit? That sounds like enough to let everyone stream, cool. If you want bursting then tell the router to allow bursting. Such as a 15 second window on the throttling.
- acdha 12y ago> It's in everyone's interest to disallow high-throughput usage while permitting burstable high-bandwidth low-throughput usage. > "Bright line" rules that no type or source of content may be discriminated against by carriers only make sense if bandwidth is not a scarce resource. There's no reason to believe that this couldn't be solved with some variation of fair queuing with bursting and since that's content and source neutral because it applies to all users equally. This is a basic network admin skill and the technology is already pervasively deployed – in the 90s, 56kpbs was the speed you assumed for the average home users and businesses used to have a hundred people behind a 1.5Mb T1. The only challenges since then have either been extreme scale or the more expensive things the major ISPs have tried to do to throttle traffic selectively.