[LINK] Surprise from Internode - upgrade speed

[Tom Koltai]

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> From: link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Kim Holburn
> Sent: Monday, 25 April 2011 10:43 PM
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> Subject: Re: [LINK] Surprise from Internode - upgrade speed
> 
> 
> I was just looking over internode's new plans and they have 
> moved to a combined upload and download cap.  Strange.  The 
> caps appear to be five times as large as an equivalent 
> current plan but currently they only count downloads.  When 
> you factor in uploads as well as downloads their new caps are 
> only around double the current size (depending on your usage 
> of course).  Confusing, but what's really happening and why?  
> Why the move to count uploads now? After all, uploads are 
> already limited by the asymmetry anyway.
> 
> On 2011/Apr/19, at 12:10 PM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> 
> > Linkers,
> > I received a nice Easter present yesterday from Internode: 
> an upgrade
> > from 1.5 to 8M on my ADSL1 line, no extra charge. I am one of those 
<SNIP>

I think it may be a combination of the YouTube and real-time lifecams
phenomenon.

The first is attempted protectionism of future revenues;
as the world uploads 25 hours of Youtube content every minute, there is
a very real
Commercial concern about who will pay for commercial content with so
much free 
stuff available; this upload the funny
bus-running-over-cockroach-at-bus-stop video to 
YouTube meme behaviour leads in to; our second reason;  
just as the take-up of the BBC's iPlayer in 2009 initially almost
brought the EU backbone to it's knees, 
[before the BBC turned off non UK access], so the concept of million's
of  users making available my 
Cat/Dog/Goldfish/Guinea Pig/Parrot/Sister cams has service providers
scrabbling for pre-emptive 
preventative backhaul saving strategies.

Multicast works on IP. 3.6 billion real-life "what I did last night"
cams don't.
Unfortunately it is the latter of these which would appear to be where
iPhone HD 
camera enabled Facebook/YouTube/Vimeo and the future of our
entertainment options 
would appear to be heading.

N.B. The iPlayer, just as the Telstra T-box are based on P2P
technologies. P2P works well with community based networks with lots of
nodes.
Where the BBC made their mistake was introducing to large a variety of
content simultaneously.
They have now fixed the problem by rewriting the iPlayer and introducing
community concentric programming AND Akamai style edge CDN's.
[Sorry no citation available, data a result of anecdotal conversation
with UK based IT dude.]

[Wow - that first para probably needs more punctuation. But I don't do
punctuation. -discuss ;-)]

TomK