This has nothing to do with ISPs, and there’s no equivalent standard in ISP land. That’s kind of the whole point. If there were a standard along the lines of TCP that dictated how every ISP throttled traffic, that would be fantastic. For now, though, the analogy is just misleading. If only it weren’t…

-Adam Fisk

Goooo Xohm i will get it when it comes to my area

Everyone pays for a piece of the pie, but not everyone can eat it all at the same time.

It may well be that they never put any measures in place and congestion will simply cause random packet loss, or they may someday find the personal bandwidth and capital budget to put something really sophisticated in place and do Deep Packet Inspection to start throttling or delaying on a per-flow basis – but they’ve got much more important things on their minds now. The first rule of throttling inside the ISP engineering community is “don’t complicate the configuration until congestion becomes a problem” – they likely won’t even think about it for a year or two at the soonest.

Cheers, Jeb Linton

I am always on the lookout for posts from you. I wanted to draw your attention to my blog.

It seems like internet access is headed in so many different directions. While users in US contemplate bandwidth caps, areas of the world are still waiting for reasonably priced service.

Today in Fiji, a small-island nation in the South Pacific, the era of monopoly control of telecommunications is coming to a close and a new day dawns.

We still have a ways to go before we see this first step result in cheaper and more accessible internet for all in Fiji.

I wanted to thank you because your posts have informed a great deal of the content on my blog (LTE vs. WiMAX, broadband/cellular convergence).

If you have a moment, please take a look through some of my older posts.

Mahalo,

CW

Under times of congestion routers drop packets based on various algorithms that may affect a particular kind of service differently by definition. The effect is to slow down a particular flow of traffic till dropping of packets is no longer required. This is how the Internet works, rather this is what is required to make TCP/IP networks efficiently. Even well meaning engineers could not tell you in advance exactly “how much are speeds slowed” under congestion and exactly which users it might affect.

The second and third items of the AUP quoted above are arguably how TCP/IP networks today without any malice on part of the operator.

In this note I am not debating the pros or cons of the operators traffic management policy – just commenting on what a reasonable AUP could actually contain.