Mr Matt
join:2008-01-29
Eustis, FL
kudos:1 Reviews:
 ·CenturyLink
 ·Comcast
·Embarq Now Centu..
 ·Millenicom
| ISP's their own worst enemy.  What a way to run a railroad. History repeats itself. In the mid 1800's the railroads got to big for their britches. The president of one of the railroads decided that he did not like a article printed by the newspaper, about the railroad. His solution was to refuse to carry any supplies to that newspaper. The president of that railroad regretted his action. As a result of his actions the government created the Interstate Commerce Commission to stop the B.S. The ICC regulations prohibited the railroads refusing to carry merchandise for one customer while carrying the same merchandise for another customer as long as the shipper paid the rates that were regulated by the ICC. Basically the ICC told the president of the railroad to F.O.
I think the bandwidth meter was a bad move for ISP's. Without a bandwidth meter an ISP can claim excessive usage without the customer having an effective way to determine what the ISP claimed was down/uploaded. Now the customer can ask the ISP to determine the source of the traffic if the customer claims they did not generate the traffic. Like a cellphone bill, the ISP's bandwidth meter should also provide a table showing the URL's and associated IP addresses, where traffic was downloaded from and uploaded to, during the period of time the traffic was measured. What a convenient way to find out if you are a victim of malware or a bionet. |
|
axus
join:2001-06-18
Washington, DC Reviews:
·Verizon Online DSL
| Interesting, is that where "common carrier" rules originated from? One might say that the internet is like a series of rails, all connected. But it's not a solid think, like a locomotive.
Anyways, it will be interesting what happens when the ISP says "no" to the itemized bandwidth request. It's obviously a very difficult thing to put together, but there's precedent with phone lines in the telecommunications service provider having to justify their metered charges. If Comcast doesn't do a good job, or errs against the customers, they'll be a target for a class action lawsuit.
Comcast has lied about their network management practices before, people will be rightly skeptical if Comcast produces higher numbers than the router (or McAfee) reports. |
|
| "The internet is a series of tubes"-Ted Stevens |
|
Mr Matt
join:2008-01-29
Eustis, FL
kudos:1 Reviews:
·CenturyLink
·Comcast
·Embarq Now Centu..
·Millenicom
| reply to axus
 Axus: The following link will direct you to information about the founding of the ICC on Wikipedia:
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate···mmission
Hopefully the ISP's day of reckoning will be soon. |
|
