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• Web browsers have a very different bandwidth profile, but your point is valid in that other types of services can saturate a connection. Certainly any UDP service can do this. We used to take high...

  8 hours ago by Chris Brandt

  in Incorrect Base Assumptions About Network Management

• Hey Sean, I also agree with you - the oversubscription for low-cost purposes is an issue I didn't touch here, but may in the future. Good insight though. --Kyle

  9 hours ago by Kyle Brady

  in Incorrect Base Assumptions About Network Management

• Hey Chris, Thanks. I'll agree with too many streams saturating a connection... this is a known problem. Depending on, say, the Torrent client you use, you can decide whether or not you want to...

  9 hours ago by Kyle Brady

  in Incorrect Base Assumptions About Network Management

• I work for an ISP. We sell primarily to businesses. Our products are priced such that the price charged to the customer includes the fully burdened cost of providing that service. e.g. we make a...

  9 hours ago by Sean

  in Incorrect Base Assumptions About Network Management

• I think the point of your article is spot on, however, I think people underestimate the scope of the problem the telcos and ISPs are dealing with. The bulk of TCP traffic has always been limited by...

  13 hours ago by Chris Brandt

  in Incorrect Base Assumptions About Network Management