You wanted "neutrality;" now you have it. in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21023046 en Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:51:42 EDT Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:51:42 EDT Re: You wanted "neutrality;" now you have it. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21024402 DaneJasper :
said by SuperWISP See Profile :

Since, by FCC decree, Comcast can no longer suppress just the most nasty bandwidth hogging behavior (which is exhibited by programs such as GNUtella and BitTorrent), it now has to limit everything. This is due to pressure by inside-the-Beltway lobbyists and lawyers for "network neutrality."

No one who complained about Comcast's behavior before should be complaining now, because this is the natural result of the FCC's decree. There's no free lunch; bandwidth costs money. LOTS of money in many areas. It isn't free and it isn't unlimited. Previously, Comcast was trying to impose an implicit limit by limiting the worst bandwidth-hogging applications -- a consumer-friendly method that eliminated worries about the meter running. But that approach has been prohibited. So, now consumers are saddled with overage charges and have to worry about their kids downloading something big that might create those charges. Boy, the "consumer advocates" inside the Beltway sure did a lot for consumers on this one!
This is doublespeak. Blocking P2P isn't "consumer-friendly", unless those consumers are not going to do anything but surf the web!

I think a big capped block of bandwidth you can do whatever you want with is a lot better than a sanitized or broken product that precludes legitimate uses.

-Dane]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21024402 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:55:10 EDT You wanted "neutrality;" now you have it. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21023046 SuperWISP : Since, by FCC decree, Comcast can no longer suppress just the most nasty bandwidth hogging behavior (which is exhibited by programs such as GNUtella and BitTorrent), it now has to limit everything. This is due to pressure by inside-the-Beltway lobbyists and lawyers for "network neutrality."

No one who complained about Comcast's behavior before should be complaining now, because this is the natural result of the FCC's decree. There's no free lunch; bandwidth costs money. LOTS of money in many areas. It isn't free and it isn't unlimited. Previously, Comcast was trying to impose an implicit limit by limiting the worst bandwidth-hogging applications -- a consumer-friendly method that eliminated worries about the meter running. But that approach has been prohibited. So, now consumers are saddled with overage charges and have to worry about their kids downloading something big that might create those charges. Boy, the "consumer advocates" inside the Beltway sure did a lot for consumers on this one!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21023046 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:53:00 EDT