Last week I wrote a twin piece with my fellow blogger Herman Wagter regarding bandwidth hogs entitled “Is the Bandwidth Hog a Myth?“. In this piece, I offered to analyse a properly built dataset that would allow an accurate measurement of the impact of heavy broadband users on the performance of a backhaul link.
This piece got quite a bit of attention (see Herding the Bandwidth Hog), especially in the US, and a few ISPs have offered to collaborate. So far, serious discussions are in progress with one service provider and we’re hoping that at least a few more will agree to work with us.
This oughta be good. I can’t wait to see the data because, like most people, I don’t believe in the mythical “bandwidth hog.”
Whatever ISPs agreed to this are taking a big risk, although I reckon it won’t be ones that have made a big deal out of bandwidth hogs in the past and that’ll be the rub. Guess we’ll find out!