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| a good analogy - public highways a good analogy of unlimited access could be our public highways....
evryone with a car has unlimited access to the road, but as more and more people enter the road, the slower the traffic.
still... people will continue to enter the road since the goal is to get somewhere. if the condition gets to a point where no one can move, the driver changes course, or after a period of years, the government steps in and builds new roads.
in internet access the analogy is similar. ISPs continue to add more users. those users then get on the internet and for the most part enjoy the speed they get. they continue to use the internet to get what they want. if the "highway" gets overloaded, they continue to use it, but with degraded service. this continues until such time that people start to complain, and then the ISP can take two routes, one is where they improve the road, or secondly start to eliminate those people who use the road too much. obviously it's cheaper for the ISP to terminate the heavy users, rather than invest in infrastructure.
perhaps it's time for the governments to step in and take control of the internet, the same way that they did for roads. | | |
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| Thank you for that analogy. It's what I was saying. With record profits, I don't see why Comcast can't upgrade the network equipment to handle the users. They would rather take this cheap bully-type of approach and what gets me is just how short-sighted many of these users are that defend Comcast. They don't want to see the bigger scope of the problem. Comcast's network CANNOT handle the ever growing number of users on it. With more users it will continue to become a problem as people see the speed and will continue to take advantage of it. Comcast may be profiting, but as soon as people realize just how terrible they really are (and I'm not the only user that used the network a lot) they will leave. There are MANY out there that are heavy users and like I said before, it's not going to stop.
The internet is an super-information highway and people are using it to shame companies and bring them in check. Keep talking and you will get enough people that will listen.
The DSL providers are spending millions upgrading their networks to handle the increasing number of users and traffic.
I read an article a while ago about the CEO of Comcast in which he made some rather arrogant comments about DSL providers (that are now providing fiber-optic and from what I understand the speeds will be something like 10 to 45 megs per second and) how he doesn't believe that no one will ever want that kind of speed. How stupid, short-sighted, arrogant and idiotic of a comment like that. But what do you expect? That's the way he runs this company. | |
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said by awaybbl :
perhaps it's time for the governments to step in and take control of the internet, the same way that they did for roads. What do you suggest stealing the assets of the widows and orphans that own the network or buying it? The government doesn't have the money to buy it so I assume you want them to steal it. Nice, starve widows and orphans so you can down load massive amounts of porn cheaply. | |
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