Small ISPs Revolt Against ESPN360 Model > Espn is free to try,

Espn is free to try,

doubt it look who owns espn , looks like comcast is onboard so far , I can get to the site.

reply to spewak

said by spewak:

and equally as well, is free to FAIL!

AMEN!

reply to n2jtx

said by n2jtx:

said by spewak:

and equally as well, is free to FAIL!

I hope this fails miserably as well. It is bad enough they cram crap that I am have absolutely no interest in on the cable companies resulting in inflated bills. Now they want to go after my ISP and force me to pay for more garbage I do not want.

reply to BosstonesOwn

said by BosstonesOwn:

doubt it look who owns espn , looks like comcast is onboard so far , I can get to the site.

Comcast: "Wait, we wanted YOU to pay US for our customers to access your content!"

Irony can be beautiful sometimes.

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I enjoy that a BigTen campus took a pass on the 'offer' as well.

So what do we call this then?

rename network neutrality to traffic neutrality and call this ISP neutrality since websites are starting to offer different service to different ISP's?

I just hope this turns out to be a bad business model. The last thing I want is to be paying for websites I don't visit

I can get it through Mediacom at our school but the site think's we are on AT&T Yet,on my home connection it says I am on Mediacom (wich I am for home use) but at school it says AT&T
I know Mediacom rides of AT&T but it is puzzling

1 5 ms 6 ms 5 ms 12-215-25-254.client.mchsi.com [12.215.25.254]
2 14 ms 12 ms 11 ms 12-215-4-26.client.mchsi.com [12.215.4.26]
3 95 ms 64 ms 64 ms cr1.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.133.146]
4 65 ms 65 ms 64 ms cr1.sffca.ip.att.net [12.122.4.121]
Wouldn't everything be just AT&T?
(Indian Hills CC in Iowa)

reply to dadkins
That Comcast is not playing along is a very good thing.

The claim that ESPN360.com is available at no charge is absolute skulduggery. In some ways this is a similar strategy that Viacom pulled over Time Warner Cable recently. Spike TV shows a message telling viewers to complain to Time Warner or they will lose the channel. They even redirected any calls to complain over to Time Warner's customer support.

Everyone should really be sending their requests to ESPN, and not their ISP. Tell ESPN that the customer will ultimately have to front the money to pay for the ESPN360.com services. All of the customers, not just the ones that actually want it.

It does not seem fair, and ESPN is to blame. They should offer a solution to those people that want to subscribe, but do not pay a bill to the right ISP. The ISP's that caved and will ultimately increase their rates to cover the losses.

reply to kw
Are you on the TWC side of RR or Insight? i'm having my dad check who lives in Findlay--he has RR on the TWC side.

reply to dadkins
Forgot i was vpned into work.

I hope this fails miserably BTW , this is really a headache for net users.
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"It's always funny until someone gets hurt......and then it's absolutely friggin' hysterical!"

reply to IowaMan
That is strange. Maybe your visible IP at school is AT&T because of a proxy? but 12.215.x.x is publicly routable so who knows.

Maybe ESPN's name resolution is as goofy as their business practices are.

reply to hottboiinnc

my dad doesnt have access to it either.

When putting in a TWC serviced zip code the only providers that come up are: AT$T, VZ, and Frontier.

I tried my zipcode on his computer and it said my cable provider didnt even provider it which i know they do because I can access it and it says "powered by Buckeye Cablesystems" i do not think their website is 100% up to date as far as partners go.