North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P
I think you just tripped across the difference between a user and an SP. SPs don't generally have 28 KBPS dial links between them and their upstream, and folks that have 28 KBPS dial uplinks don't generally host Akamai servers. Assuming that just because you have effectively-infinite bandwidth and effectively-zero delay everyone perforce must enjoy that is a bit of a leap... This kind of a "you're different and therefore wrong" mismatch has made complete hash out of quite a variety of discussions concerning user experience and user requirements on the Internet. Please listen carefully when someone talks about having limited rate access. The assumptions that are obviously true in your (SP) world are completely irrelevant in theirs. If you want their opinions - and this opinion was explicitly requested - you have to respect them when they are offered, not just bash them as different from your experience. At 01:21 PM 08/30/04 -0600, Byron L. Hicks wrote: Not true. For those of us who host Akamai servers, we could download SP2 with no problems. We did not need P2P, or MSDN. In fact, I would be very reluctant to trust a Windows update downloaded via P2P.
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