alt Hacker NewsConsumer home/office routers provide their clients IP connectivity without reserve. Why is that the case?
The default is to allow all available bandwidth, which presumably should be the case from ISP to consumer (most likely a paid-for service), but why should that be the default at consumer router <-> IoT? What need has your printer for 500Mbps outgoing? Or my fancy toothbrush?
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shermantanktop • yesterday at 3:06 PM
Is there any method for a connected device to advertise the required throughput? Maybe some SNMP thing? That’s the only way this would work I think.
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Residential ISPs need to better police abuse of the network and they need to better respond to reports of abuse by cutting off the abusive, botnet-infected users. Of course, until there is a financial or regulatory incentive to cut off these customers, they won’t.