bittorrent slow
Guy Fraser
guy at incentre.net
Thu Mar 23 22:54:21 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-22-03 at 18:14 -0500, sean wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:45:51 -0600
> Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > They don't sell you a link of a given bandwidth and then tell you
> > how you can use it. They license you to use *their* equipment, and
> > then tell you how you can use *their* equipment. And you *agree*
> > to the terms when you sign up to use *their* equipment.
>
> You're right of course, but they won't get *my* money unless they can
> provide the service i want, which includes a sizeable chunk of download
> and upload bandwidth. Luckily, many DSL providers are more than
> happy to undercut and out service the cable companies today.
>
> It's easy to be jealous of the Japanese though who are so far ahead of
> us, having much greater penetration of fiber to the home with 100Mbit
> download _and_ upload speeds for little more than we pay for a rate
> limited cable connection here.
>
Yes but they don't have the luxury of living in a land that has vast
distances with little or no people, like we do in North America.
It is far more feasible to roll out new technology when you have
a high density of possible customers in a small geographic region.
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