Why I do not depend on camground Wifi

kcmoedoe wrote:

ChopperBill wrote:
Just wondering. Is it possible for an ISP to put a block on high data use down loads in a large sharing environment?

Possible, but it opens an entire new can of worms. Set the throttling too low, everyone complains about speeds. Set it at an acceptable speed for basic usage, the high usage people still complain. Set it high enough for most apps but not things like streaming HD movies, then you get people who just have the movie sent to their storage devices, even if it takes several hours. Get several of these, and the system still gets overloaded, and it is actually a worse situation, because the system can't speed up when the network clears and erase the backlog. It becomes a situation like plumbing where 2/3s of a pipe is clogged, the water won't flow faster even if you open the faucet fully.

Managing a network for a large organization with tens of thousands of users, I can say that to do traffic management properly ie block or throttle Netflix, Hulu etc, requires a number of things:
-someone who knows what they are doing as it requires a lot of fine tuning and regular adjustment as traffic patterns change
-a decent router that will do proper traffic shaping would be needed, your average Linksys, Dlink etc will not do it well and often makes it worse
-traffic management only works well when you are trying to fit 110-120% network traffic thru your internet feed. If you are trying to fit double the capacity, traffic management will do nothing as the router will tie up all of its resources trying to "fit" the traffic thru the pipe, it will have no resources left to actually send and receive the traffic.