| reply to applegatebb
Re: Key to the argument You may want to do a little reading up and rethink your approval of this.
I will leave you with 2 things:
1.) These backbone providers are not attempting to save us (the consumers) money. They are trying to make more money, which does not happen when they give us a break in cost. A subset of this is that not all ISP's that we pay for internet access also own a backbone. There are actually very few backbone providers / ISP's.
2.) If they are not my ISP, they have no right touching any traffic I request/send regardless of whether or not it goes across their backbone. My ISP pays them for their backbone connection, I pay my ISP to get access to that backbone. Google, or whoever, pays for their bandwidth and backbone access just as I do. If they want more and faster access for their customers, they pay for more and always have just like you do if you want more bandwidth or faster access. There is no free ride going on here as these extortionist morons will have you believe. |
