{"id":1351,"date":"2007-05-29T00:11:50","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T04:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/05\/29\/hey-isp-joost-give-me-more-bits\/"},"modified":"2007-05-29T00:11:50","modified_gmt":"2007-05-29T04:11:50","slug":"hey-isp-joost-give-me-more-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/05\/29\/hey-isp-joost-give-me-more-bits\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey ISP \u2014 Joost give me more bits"},"content":{"rendered":"

fibre optic.jpgSteve O’Hear — who also writes for ZDNet on social media — has a great post up at Last100 about how bandwidth-stingy Internet Service Providers threaten to stall many online-video apps such as Joost by throttling the download speeds<\/a> that their users get. He looks at how some ISPs cut back your bandwidth after you’ve downloaded a certain amount per month, which with video isn’t difficult to exceed, and how some put a cap on downloads period. Many ISPs also use “bandwidth shaping”<\/a> to restrict the flow of peer-to-peer apps such as Joost and Skype. <\/p>\n

This is an issue that is going to become more and more important as Joost and Babelgum and other peer-to-peer video apps become widespread. One thing Steve doesn’t mention is that many ISPs also have ridiculously tiny upload<\/i> speeds, and this is just as much of a threat<\/a> to peer-to-peer apps. It’s no good to have a big fat download pipe if the upload is a tiny drinking straw.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/b><\/p>\n

Of course, if you live in an area where Verizon’s FiOS is available, you can get 30 megabits download<\/a> (no details on uploads or whether they use bandwidth throttling). As Cynthia Brumfield notes at IPDemocracy, there’s no such thing<\/a> as too much bandwidth.<\/p>\n

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Steve O’Hear — who also writes for ZDNet on social media — has a great post up at Last100 about how bandwidth-stingy Internet Service Providers threaten to stall many online-video apps such as Joost by throttling the download speeds that their users get. He looks at how some ISPs cut back your bandwidth after you’ve … <\/p>\n

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