Nik00117 said:
And as for the ads, I don't notice them at all.
well I envisage that's because you have a fast computer and fast connection. think of what it's like for people on dialup... they have to use the internet too, and the point I was making is that maybe if people were fiscally discouraged from using more space that they necessarily
had to then the internet would opperate faster for all of us.
on jan 25th 2003 the internet ground to a halt within ten minutes of an internet work being released, whilst this worm was only a few hundred KB in size, and only affected a service that wasn't really widly used still the entier internet slowed down, with many people reporting that the service was completly unavailable,
if a few hundred K file being transmitted a few thousand times can cog up switches so much that the entier world wide web crawls to a practical halt within ten mintes, imagine what a few million people trying to download a video could do...
also on sept 11 2001 the internet ground to an almost halt as people all around the workld tried to connect to news services to find out what was happening in new york.
considerable slowdown also hapened this time last year (july 7th) as people tried to find out what was happening in London
And regradless of what your neighbor does on his internet it shouldn't affect yours. ISPs divide it up, you get so much, and no more,
don't matter if your neighbor is DLING 50 movies or 25 shouldn't affect you.
As one sentator who thinks ISP should be allowed to do this said "Took me 5 days to get my e-mail because some guy was streaming 10 movies"
What a ****...
as pointed out above, clearly what other people do does affect how fast your connection goes...
as for ISPs dividing up speed so much and then no more.
when I said contention ratio, did you even know what that is?
http://www.getonlinebroadband.com/faqs/faq02.html
whilst I don't believe it took him weeks to get an email, it is theoretically possible that it could hapen, (i.e mail servers try to make a connection, if that fails they wait a while and try again.it could have been that a single large piece of mail was not able to be transmitted and thus blocked up the queue for sending other bits of mail).
last, (but by certainly no mean least).
in the last thread about net neutrality, when you described that senator, I asked if you could moderate your language.
Now I've had to do it for you... there are certain words that really shouldn't be used since this is a public forum open ot people of all ages.