Re: S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge

[Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

> On Oct 10, 2021, at 13:21 , Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:
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> On 10/10/21 22:13, Michael Thomas wrote:
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> > Isn't that what Erlang numbers are all about? My suspicion is that after about 100Mbs most people wouldn't notice 
> > the difference in most cases. My ISP is about 25Mbs on a good day (DSL) and it serves our needs fine and have never 
> > run into bandwidth constraints. Maybe if we were streaming 4k all of the time it might be different, but frankly the 
> > difference for 4k isn't all that big. It's sort of like phone screen resolution: at some point it just doesn't 
> > matter and becomes marketing hype.
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> The ISP looking to charge BigContent for increased link saturation isn't looking at the individual 100Mbps links they 
> have sold to their downstream customers.
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> They are looking at the aggregate Gbps or Tbps of traffic that BigContent is seeking to deliver across their network, 
> for "no $$".

Which is the kind of ignorant view of the situation that creates this problem in the first place.

It’s not for “no $$”, it’s for all the $$ they got from all those 100Mbps links that they are delivering those Tbps of 
traffic to.

If the aggregate $$ they are collecting is insufficient, then they have priced their service incorrectly and should 
either re-evaluate,
or go bankrupt and sell to someone that knows how to run a business.

Owen