[BC] Primer on Internet Streaming

[Leon Zetekoff]

Hi there...

On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 16:26 +0000, RichardBJohnson at comcast.net wrote:
> Anyone who anticipates using the Internet as a substitute for a program channel to his or her transmitter had better seriously think that over. It is well known that Comcast throttles what it thinks is excessive usage by dropping packets. This is an extreme annoyance when trying to download files and results in the impossibility of uploading any file in excess of about 10 megabytes. It also makes it impossible to update my Web Pages using any "store-bought" synchronization utilities because the result is the destination (hostmysite.com) protecting itself by disconnecting after it sees many missing packets requiring retries. I have to send individual files, one-by-one.
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That may be on a residential or consumer account but what about a
business account? What does the SLA say? I work now for PAETEC and I
know we do not throttle. When I worked for a Wireless ISP in Northern VA
(from my house in PA) we didn't do that either. We did do some stuff
with peer-2-peer at one time to cut down that bandwidth gobbler.

Consumer/residential accounts usually don't have SLAs. Check the SLA.

Leon