tolls could dot the internet highway (cnn)

Packet prioritisation? Hmmm.. sounds familiar..
Look at Telkom using this to say their prioritisation is ahead of its time :(

Never mind that they have only 120 000 users using 2.5 Gigs a month :mad:
 
<Q>The Internet2 association assumed that prioritization was the way to go when it started building a super-fast next-generation network connecting universities.

However, engineers abandoned that notion after a few years, concluding that it's more effective simply to expand the network's capacity for all traffic -- adding lanes to the highway instead of a parallel toll road.</Q>

Interesting ... erm ... how much have teklom spend on prioritisation hardware and software and training and staff and explaining to irate peeps what their reasoning is and ... I bet it bites into their profits much more than it saves them anything.

On the priority service issue ... these idiots are going to end up realising what telkom should have realised long ago ... just make it wider ... get more throughput ... better service and people will be happy. No need to spend money on expensive routing and control just to get a few extra cents, which will just be eaten by the infrastructure costs ... silly.
 
stoke said:
On the priority service issue ... these idiots are going to end up realising what telkom should have realised long ago ... just make it wider ... get more throughput ... better service and people will be happy. No need to spend money on expensive routing and control just to get a few extra cents, which will just be eaten by the infrastructure costs ... silly.
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my vote tomorrow goes to Stoke!! haha :)
 
"The next great idea, the next Google or eBay or Napster or whatever, won't have the capital to get themselves in the fast lanes right away," said Ben Scott at Free Press, a nonprofit that promotes freedom of speech. "The reason the big e-companies were so successful were that they started on the same level playing field as everyone else."

Another objection to packet prioritization is technical.

The Internet2 association assumed that prioritization was the way to go when it started building a super-fast next-generation network connecting universities.

However, engineers abandoned that notion after a few years, concluding that it's more effective simply to expand the network's capacity for all traffic -- adding lanes to the highway instead of a parallel toll road.
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The above says it all for me. This is a DUMB idea by rich ass companies trying to own something they shouldn't.
 
antowan said:
The above says it all for me. This is a DUMB idea by rich ass companies trying to own something they shouldn't.
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true true, its like taking the N1 between jhb - pta and saying fast lane only for cars with more than 1 person in it. great idea!! however try implementing it? waste of effort. use the same money and build another highway (or a lot of money and build a train that looks nice)
 
albert123 said:
true true, its like taking the N1 between jhb - pta and saying fast lane only for cars with more than 1 person in it. great idea!! however try implementing it? waste of effort. use the same money and build another highway (or a lot of money and build a train that looks nice)
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Not sure if you are being serious or not. :)

I kinda think carpool is great idea, but like the Gautrain, only if coupled with proper public transport in the inner cities...

If we cannot move around the city, whats the use of a nice train, car pool lanes or toll routes? Tolls are supposed to force people to use alternatives. In this country we use tolls to pay for assets the government is already forcing us to pay for in taxes. It is just not on...
 
antowan said:
Not sure if you are being serious or not. :)
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being serious in that the gautrain as the plan is now will not work due to the closest statiion is like 3km away from my work so what the point ?

anyway as long as i can get to myadsl.co.za and gmail.com on adsl i dont care how many lanes they block :) hehe
 
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