Comment Re:What's the problem? (Score 1) 350
> So what's the problem? Why are ISPs bitching?
The problem is that while BBC got their own pipe in full from hosting provider, the consumer side of things (ISPs) was knowingly undersold and ISPs build flawed models that assumed bandwidth will not be used much, hence high contention ratios and they don't even have bandwidth for those. Initially they "solved" problem by kicking off heavy users, but with the advent of youtube and others it all went mainstream so they can't kick off their whole customer base. They might try though.
The problem is that while BBC got their own pipe in full from hosting provider, the consumer side of things (ISPs) was knowingly undersold and ISPs build flawed models that assumed bandwidth will not be used much, hence high contention ratios and they don't even have bandwidth for those. Initially they "solved" problem by kicking off heavy users, but with the advent of youtube and others it all went mainstream so they can't kick off their whole customer base. They might try though.
