Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Paul M
Why ? - if you were running a business and a small percentage of customers were using so much resources that they were affecting the rest of your customers, and losing you money, would you spend even more of your profits on them, knowing you won't make any money from them anyway - or would you take steps to reduce their usage, or even get rid of them. I know which I would do.
|
Then that would be the wrong choice.
As I've pointed out a few times now people are only going to use more and more bandwidth, if they are seeing problems now, then that shows they have a weakness in the network that needs addressing and fixing now.
Yes they could get rid of a couple of users here and there, and a couple more users will join to take their place, and at the same time the general masses bandwidth will also be steadily increasing.
Getting rid of 5% of the userbase now will only decrease their profits, and they will still have a problem with the network and ever
worsening capacity issues. And as I touched upon in my last post, what happens in 6 months time when ADSL 4mb and 8Mb is the norm and the have to double the speed again to stay competitive. The network problems will double again, but now they have less income to fix the problem.
They need to spend money on the network and if your connection is slowing down then its not the fault of the 5% club, it NTL's fault, they should be working flat out and upgrading the network now so it can handle 4/8/16/32mb connections tomorrow, blaming the users is just a really lame excuse.
Pete
__________________
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by stingray
The fact that your line is capable of 3meg does not mean you will get it - there is a lot of network between you and most sites you will visit - and you will not be the only person trying to download stuff from a server. Many servers themselves are only on 2, 5 or 10 meg links, so more then 3 or 4 people trying to pull stuff from them and you are not going to get full speed.
An 8 meg line is almost completely pointless - there a few servers in the world that could sustain that speed to more than 1 or 2 simultaneous downloads, even assuming the network inbetween is capable.
|
Yep I agree, the internet is not setup for wide scale very fast connections, the majority of servers (including all of mine) only have 10mb nics, but I know what server I was connected to and the system is setup to handle fast connections. No the slow downs in this case were on the NTL side, and the disconnections were also instablitly in the NTL systems. I've also seen a lot more packet loss on the NTL routers since the speed increases.
Pete