Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

[Jeroen van Aart <jeroen () mompl net>]

Backdoor Santa wrote:
> Ever wonder what Comcast's connections to the Internet look like? In the tradition of WikiLeaks, someone stumbled upon 
> these graphs of their TATA links. For reference, TATA is the only other IP transit provider to Comcast after Level (3). 
> Comcast is a customer of TATA and pays them to provide them with access to the Internet.
>
> 1 day graphs:
>
> Image #1: http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/78/ntoday.gif

> Another thing to notice is the ratio of inbound versus outbound. Since Comcast is primarily a broadband access network provider, they're 
> going to have millions of eyeballs (users) downloading content. Comcast claims that a good network maintains a 1:1 with them, but that's 
> simply not possible unless you had Comcast and another broadband access network talking to each other. In the attached graphs you can see the 
> ratio is more along the lines of 5:1, which Comcast was complaining about with Level (3). The reality is that the ratio argument is bogus. 
> Broadband access networks are naturally pull-heavy and it's being used as an excuse to call foul of Level (3) and other content heavy 
> networks. But this shoulnd't surprise anyone, the ratio argument has been used for over a decade by many of the large telephone companies 
> as an excuse to deny peering requests. Guess where most of Comcasts senior network executive people came from? Sprint and AT&T. Welcome to 
> the new monopoly of th
e 21st century.
> If you think the above graph is just a bad day or maybe a one off? Let us look at a 30 day graph...
>
> Image #3: http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/8917/ntomonth.gif
                                        
This tells me two things:

1 - Don't use comcast as your ISP. Personally I prefer to use a local 
ISP, maybe even "ma and pa store" style, if available.

2 - If for some reason you just can't live without comcast, then plan 
ahead do all your leeching between 7 AM and 5 PM. Then watch your 
previously saved videos at your leisure without interruptions in the 
evening. And plan on finding a better ISP :-)

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