Excellent Idea
Call it timesharing if you like (for want of a better name) but whatever ...
i Can work. If I BURST and other ISP,S realised that there are other ways to balance the loads, obviosly when the great "mobile- e-mail and surf brigade are off the air.
that leftover bandwidth could be shuffled over to other users , hell even if it was from 12 midnight to 06h00 it would be great.
The model tHAT isp,s use for working out contention and load balancing that seem to be the norm now, were perhaps a benchmark when 56 k analogue lines were out : ie the average joe comes home from work, checks his mail surfs a few sites, checks the stocks and news headlines, updates antivirus etc and goes to bed....
Imo file sizes were smaller then, so were hard drives and storage devices.
In 1996 i was happy to get a few mp3,s a week and update my security patches.
Technology has come far, I mean its easier to download the latest, Linux Distro on (YE SHOOT ME) than ordering it and waiting for snail mail.
As i recall the biggest file transfer i did back then was probably 230meg GAMNE DEMO. nOW FILES OF 4.7 GIG ARE MORE THE NORM
Divx and Xvid, large hardrives, DVD burners, torrents etc are doing to Internet connectivity the same thing that The Game MARKET IS DOING to the personal computer, ie : DRIVING SPEEDS AND VOLUME faster cpu's bigger storage, more ram and better graphics cards.
The difference is that, prices of internet are not dropping at the rate that hardware has. My first large hardrive was a 13gig Seagate I PAID R999.00 FOR
now you can buy a 250gig for similar pric
my FIRST INTERNET CONECTION in 2000 WAS 699.00 FOR 64KBS UNCAPPED (ye Megawan)
BUT in contrast i pay now 599 for my 3gig iburst, and it is basically 70% at 64KBS/S the 1024 part doesnt last more than 3 -5 days beacause i aint an average Joe.
The Game manufacturers drive the market,:: we wAnt to play the new game so we upgrade eg: A new game comes out that only runs on Directex 9c -
it Also wont play without bitmapping and pixel shading, so our intrepid gamer goes off to the Freindly PC store and comes home with more RAM and a new graphics card, but alas its not quite enuff so its overclocking, coOOlers, faster CPU ......... till the next game and the next techno jump.
Once you have clocked the game you want to try out your new skills in a multiplayer environment.
IF there isnt enoughbandwidth between 6pm
and 9pm I am happy to play that Half-Life2 between say 10pm and 12 am or later, liek why cant an open window be given specifically to be able to play online games or perhaps do large ftp transfers like beteween 2 am and 6 am?
hELL WE USED TO WAKE UP AT 04H00 TO WATCH A TEST MATCH On TV!!!!
So much culd be done by progreSsive thinkING ISP'S TO ENHANCE THE RANGE OF SERVICES THAT THEY GIVE TO THERE CUSTOMERS.
Could polls be done for prioritizing certain ports for MMPORGS and other games that arent too FPS SENSITIVE.
These ports could be excluded fron the throttle and linked to the utd???
Where is the laterl thinking ???? is it only in the 3 offerings ? 3,6,9 ?
i agree