RE: Greed, stupidity, arrogance, and small genitalia.... (a corporate study on the bells)

["Todd Towles" <toddtowles () brookshires com>]

> Bear this in mind:
>
> There is no such thing as 'Better than Best Effort' in the Internet.
> In other words, in order to give some traffic 'preferrential'
> treatment, someone's traffic has to be 'penalized'.
>
> I mean, you're bound by the laws of physics -- you can't make 
> light travel any faster across a piece of fiber than it 
> already does, given DWDM, etc.
>
> So who's traffic gets penalized? The people who don't pay them?
> That's basically extortion in my book (and for what it's 
> worth, I wrote one on QoS). :-)

Agreed, but this seems to be a clear attempt to pull on <insert targer
here>'s customer base, clear and simple. They are moving from a default
of all "equal" to a default of "slower" in a general sense, so now you
must pay to get back to "equal"...seems like a backhanded way of
building brand loyal customers...instead of doing it the old fashision
way - having a good services. But I didn't write a book on QOS or
anything for that matter...so those are my 2 cents (given that 2 US
cents isn't even worth that much in metal) lol

-Todd

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