How bad will it get for high bandwidth users? (Some could call them “bandwidth hogs” and some could say that they just want to receive what they pay for.)
Comcast says there could be choppiness in VOIP communication, sluggish page load times, and slowed P2P uploads. They point out that the same thing can happen in the absence of any active network management.
How many users might this affect? Comcast found, “. . . in Colorado Springs, CO, the largest test market, on any given day in August 2008, an average of 22 users out of 6,016 total subscribers in the trial had their traffic priority status changed to BE at some point during the day.”
Comcast’s network management policies will continue to evolve as they get more experience with their protocol-agnostic techniques. An important indication that the techniques are working is that: “To date, Comcast has yet to receive a single customer complaint in any of the trial markets that can be traced to the new congestion management practices, despite having broadly publicized its trials.”
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