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RE: Disingenuous
By Motoman on 5/18/2011 11:41:49 AM , Rating: 2
The problem there being that the consumers have no case, since all ISPs sell their services as "up to Xmb" without any guarantee of any minimum bandwidth level at all.

That will never change without industry regulation. The only rational solution is to require all ISPs to sell their services with a guaranteed MINIMUM bandwidth. That would be something that could be monitored and verified.

...some people say selling at an "average" would be fine, but that opens up a different can of worms. An average over time still allows your internet connection to be unusably slow at peak times.

RE: Disingenuous
By Akrovah on 5/18/2011 11:49:30 AM , Rating: 2
You can't guarentee a minimum bandwidth either though. Every ISP has periods of service interruption. Obviously you are not getting your minimum bandwidth at that point in time, and then the ISP still gets sued.

RE: Disingenuous
By Motoman on 5/18/2011 11:56:50 AM , Rating: 2
One can imagine that appropriate provisions could be given for things that the ISP can't reasonably be expected to power outages or some idiot cutting their line with a shovel.

It's just like getting paid-for TV, either by cable or buy a contract that says you get 100 channels. If a storm or whatever prevents you from getting your 100 channels for some period of time, that's the way it goes...people don't sue DirecTV for the 8 hours a month when they didn't get any service because of something DirecTV couldn't have managed.

RE: Disingenuous
By SunTzu on 5/22/2011 2:13:46 PM , Rating: 2
That's wierd, cus ive got a guaranteed 50/10 with my connection, up to 100/10, with a federal mandate that it has to be at 100/10 for x (i dont know how often its allowed to drop) hours of the day. I live in Sweden, and our ISPs have no problems with this. The only connections that arent forced to follow this are 3g mobile connections, for technical reasons.

RE: Disingenuous
By EricMartello on 5/23/2011 12:55:05 AM , Rating: 2
It's called and SLA, brah...get one if you need it.

RE: Disingenuous
"up to Xmb"



