Traffic Shaping

[kaspaas]

Hi,

It is possible to shape traffic by port - as Telkom has demonstrated very well.

It also possible to shape traffic by user.

If Telkom is worried about the effect of "abusive users" on other users as they claim, why not shape the bandwidth priorities according to users?

If you are a heavy user, you get a very low priority, if you are a light user, you get a high priority. But as long as there is bandwidth available, no packets will be delayed - only at peak times.

Then they don't need to do shaping by port, and the gamers can play as much as they like as long as they are not moved to a low priority group due to playing too hard!

Seems to me a very fair way of doing: If you use little, we give you the fastest possible speed. If you are an abuser- please queue for some spare bandwidth[]

Problem is, with Telkom's "best effort" attitude, one can't trust them to provide a fair service. Hope ICASA will get them to prove that the do so.


South Africa needs World Class Broadband at World Competitive Prices.

 

[martin]

Interesting idea, but I'm afraid if we leave the definitions of "light" and "abusive" users up to Telkom, we're gonna get a rotten deal. Anyone attempting to do anything more than a bit of surfing and e-mail is considered "abusive" at the moment.

 

[Karnaugh]

I dont see how making full use of the speed of a product is abuse, if they cant handle the traffic, they just simply should decrease the package speed (and cost respecivly).

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[caroper]

But that would involve work and cost.

If everyone is treated as potentialy abusive then you can avoid any potential claims of bias, and keep your costs down, whilst justifying a substandard service.

Cheers
Chris

 

[onionpeel]

Telkom are just too lazy (or to stingy) to implement a sensible solution.

 

[SK33T]

"Work and costs", Telkom, are u kidding?

 

[Karnaugh]

And what is more costly than implementing and maintaining an extensive traffic shaping system? It takes alot of computing power to process the collective packets-per-second of every ADSL user in the country you know.

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