OK I said that was about it from me in this thread but goalposts seemed to have moved a bit, and any pledges from me to 'shut up' are always a little suspect as I can not stop myself sometimes
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Originally Posted by ianathuth
The problem with cable in particular is that broadband is running on a system that was not designed specifically for it.
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I quite agree. In fact I have said so on many times in the past, such that the above could easily have been a 'quote' from me.
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Originally Posted by ianathuth
The planning and infrastructure was based on the model of a customer that does certain things, but that model is no longer valid. Times have changed and current days applications consume far more bandwidth than the planners ever thought.
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If commercial organisations make bad decisions and fail to plan properly for the future then that is their look out. The solution to this should not be for customers or the government to 'bail them out' imo.
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Originally Posted by ianathuth
The more that todays customers use their available bandwidth, the sooner you get to a state of congestion. If NTL was to implement even higher service tiers then the congestion would arrive much sooner and there is a limit to what cablecos can increase the service tiers to without a very radical change in their infrastructure which they cannot afford.
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This is all quite true and correct. At no point did I suggest that a 2mbs service would help any of these problems. All I 'wanted' in terms of this thread is for NTL (and others) to stop saying or implying that a single user can cause any more _congestion_ when things are overloaded than a 'single users worth' of congestion. This is clearly (to me at least) just not possible and yet it is a _constsnt_ refrain from telcos/cablecos and sw companies trying to sell 'solutions', in one form or another and i object to it, strongly.