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Author: Sharkscott
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Subject: Re: [Article] Cox ready to throttle P2P, non "time sensitive" traffic
If my info is right, your right. ;-) For cox it only goes down to the node,
half a street or a whole or half a apartment complexes..I think..

Scott

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Eric Shubert <> wrote:

> I think the problem Cox is trying to address is inherent in their
> technology, namely that customers share bandwidth. DSL doesn't have this
> issue (DSL has finer grained control). That's my understanding at any rate.
>
> Sharkscott wrote:
> > I agree Shawn, I like your idea, I don't download THAT much, but why
> > 'pay' for when its someone else watching a thousand videos at once that
> > is causing the network slowdown..
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Eric Shubert <
> > <mailto:ejs@shubes.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     Nicely said. I agree.

> >
> >      <mailto:kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
> >      > I think that this is being taken out of context...
> >      > I manage a small wireless network with around a hundred victims...
> >      > er...
> >      > CUSTOMERS!    :)
> >      >
> >      > Being a wireless network, we face challenges that wired networks
> >     don care
> >      > about, and when the traffic spikes, we have to "manage".

> >      >
> >      > Let me state in here that we don't do false advertising (in fact
> >     most of our
> >      > customers are word-of-mouth), and we explain people that we
> >     "shape" the
> >      > line.

> >      >
> >      > I am not defending Cox and I don't know what they are doing, but
> >     having seen
> >      > how "journalists" makeup overblown aviation news for the sake of
> >     "yellowish
> >      > journalism" (or sometimes blatant ignorance of the subject and
> >     laziness to
> >      > get informed), I don't have any doubt that they will grab a few
> >     words from a
> >      > manager, and run to the nearest keyboard to type away something
> that
> >      > "sells"...
> >      > Unfortunately, "truth" doesn't sell very well...

> >      >
> >      > With that said, and after donning my asbestos suit, I want to
> >     change one
> >      > word that probably got misplaced here: Throttle.

> >      >
> >      > For all I know (not much indeed), and from what I gather from the
> >     obvious
> >      > ignorance of the reporter (again, nothing new after I see how
> >     they convey
> >      > aviation "news") Cox is not doing "Throttling", Cox is doing
> >     "Shaping".

> >      >
> >      > You cannot run a network pipe without some kind of management, or
> >     everything
> >      > is going to go Hell.

> >      >
> >      > The way this is done, is by inspecting packets to determine
> priority.
> >      > VoIP packets will be expedited and FTP packets will be sent after.
> >      > Latency is not an issue in an FTP transfer.
> >      > Latency will kill a VoIP connection.
> >      > At the expense or extending the FTP connection a few seconds.

> >      >
> >      > This is not unfair, this is necessary, albeit unpopular...

> >      >
> >      > And IS NOT TRIVIAL.
> >      > In fact, it is complex enough when you can inspect the packets,
> >     never mind
> >      > if you are dealing with an encrypted connection...

> >      >
> >      > Finally, even though I don't prevent P2P in "my valley", I do
> >     severe or
> >      > throttle the outbound connections when they become a burden for
> >     the network.
> >      > Most of the network is used by rural people that simply doesn't
> >     have other
> >      > options.

> >      >
> >      > I can't just tell them that they can't use Internet just because
> >     Joe Hacker
> >      > downloaded the latest hacked motion picture and 37 thousand
> >     hackers over the
> >      > World are banging in the line THEY (my customers) PAY FOR! to get
> >     their
> >      > share...

> >      >
> >      > It's a limited resource.
> >      > I explain that to my people too...

> >      >
> >      > Finally, please understand that I am not defending Cox.
> >      > But I believe that the whole discussion is falling down the wrong
> >     path.
> >      > Enrique

> >      >
> >      > PS: Who knows here about shaping?
> >      > I need help...   :(

> >      >

> >      >

> >      >

> >      >

> >      >
> >      > Stephen P Rufle writes:

> >      >

> >      >>

> >
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/01/cox-opens-up-throttle-for-p2p-non-time-sensitive-traffic.ars
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