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ATHM 23.48+1.2%Nov 21 9:30 AM EST
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To: KailuaBoy who wrote (18094)12/20/1999 11:24:00 PM
From: ahhaha  Read Replies (1) of 29970
 
There are no QoS provisions in ATHM's network. Attempting that partitioning undermines the public nature and service of @Home's private network. QoS is an artifice of failed technology and will be relegated to the Stone Age when Pure becomes ubiquitous. Before then QoS will never be implemented for public carriage because it is privileged by money and status. The @Home network is the people's freeway. Aside from being a politically unmanageable nightmare QoS can't be done practically because QoS can't fit in the clogged pipe of the last mile.

Broadband "content" which is an oxymoron usage requires not a high degree of QoS, rather, a no degree of QoS. If you have the throughput to achieve ubiquitous 3 mbps service, QoS is obviated. You need that throughput to guarantee any ubiquitous broadband delivery, otherwise it is hardly broad.

ATHM has to fight against attempts to compromise the integrity of delivery by engaging in shared OA. This would be a type of QoS where everyone is down-geared to 56 k for fairness just so socialist PACs can appear to have done good to humanity. Of course, some would get high speed like the elite which have supported the PACs in the Holy Cause. And AOL, of course.

The answer is: QoS is neither luxury nor privilege. It's a relic.
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