Richard Davies

North Yorkshire

IT Manager

ISP's should foot the bill. The BBC will be paying for a leased line to upload / make content available etc. and so in a way...content providers are already paying. We then as customers are generally paying for bandwidth to download from ISP's for either bandwidth which we never receive or 'fair usage' policies which are only fair to the ISP. This to me means that ISP's are already being paid by everyone...content provider and end customers.

ISP's have been getting money from people for years and must have been feeling very cosy and secure. It is there own fault if they have not seen the future and done proper capacity planning on their networks to ensure that they can cope / keep up with new technology.

Also, most streaming media is UDP based. Unlike TCP this has no built in congestion control and so someone somewhere needs to also invent a TCP-friendly UDP style protocol because until then streaming media will eat up bandwidth whilst TCP backs off for congestion.

Bottom line is though that Tiscali should not be bitching like they are.

Can anyone say for sure that if iPlayer etc. didn't happen that congestion would still not be a problem...they are constantly increasing customer base and so eventually congestion would hit anyway!?!