Originally Posted by Steve M (Post 9393195)

Not to criticize you in particular Pinky, but I think part of the problem must be too many people using bandwidth-hogging applications like streaming video. What's frustrating is when the connection is so slow as to be unusable even for small tasks like checking email or basic web surfing. I wonder if they could solve the problem by installing smarter access points that were able to throttle back the bandwidth used by hogs when the upstream connection gets saturated. This could end up being far cheaper than increasing bandwidth overall and would solve the problem for most people. It might actually end up with a better solution for most people.

Originally Posted by otralot (Post 9393305)

Those things you arecalling bandwidth hogs are becoming pretty standard internet fare these days. Soassuming the person using video doesn't need to access it as badly as you do your email isn't quite fair.

For example,for you corporate communications might be email. But If I was say a TV news producer ( I am not), seeing a video clip of a potential story might be equally important as a text email.