 IanPremium
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Re: They make no sense. said by BF69:said by Ian:said by UnKown:its just saying that p2p traffic will get a lower priority than web browser traffic. In my opinion this is a fantastic idea. It essentially throttles big traffic files like videos down during peak times and lets the simple applications get priority. This way your 5 gig dvd copy movie your stealing uses the most amount of network resources in the evening and early morning. Maybe... Or maybe your perfectly legal movie download that you paid for from some service other than your ISP gets prioritized far below your ISP's over-priced craptacular offerings. Are you in THAT big of a hurry to get your "legal" copy of a movie? I'm pretty sure Amazon and Itunes do NOT use p2p to deliver movies. Now NBC has this "NBC Direct" application that does that allows you to download temporary copies of HD TV shows that uses p2p. I won't use it. I'll be danmed if I use it. Ok so other computers are getting copies of stuff on MY computer. Why so some guy can make a hack that allows him access to ALL my files? I bet people that use p2p a lot have a higher % of being a victim of identity theft than most other people. So, in your own comment, you mention a P2P application that is totally legal which would be affected by the ISPs "management" of traffic. Call me cynical, but I think your cable or phone company wants the $$ for providing you HD content, when you want it.
(I'll ignore the FUD about P2P and identity theft)
How much in a hurry (or not) I am for for my legal material, be it a movie, tv show, or Linux ISO is my business, not the company with which I contract for an internet connection.
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| no you do not contract them for Internet. You contract them to provide you access to THEIR private network. In return as an added bonus they connect you to the WWW.
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Lazlow
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You may contract them for access to their private network but the VAST majority of users are contracting for access to the internet. Most of us want our ISP to be a simple dumb pipe. |
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IanPremium
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said by hottboiinnc:no you do not contract them for Internet. You contract them to provide you access to THEIR private network. In return as an added bonus they connect you to the WWW. They can give you a wall garden as your "internet" and thats all they have to give you, since they're only leasing you the network half. Oh really? May want to send that memo to their marketing departments.
"Comcast High-Speed Internet offers the fastest speeds out there over our advanced fiber-optic network. It's way faster than DSL."
AT&T
"Unlimited high-speed Internet access"
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“Any claim that the root of a problem is simple should be treated the same as a claim that the root of a problem is Bigfoot. Simplicity and Bigfoot are found in the real world with about the same frequency.” – David Wong |
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And I contracted for HDTV too, but instead I get their crap upconverted 480 signal that looks like crap, but is modulated on their HD channel offerings, and counted by them as a high Def channel.....
I pay for internet. What I access or how I access, or how often I access is none of their business.!!!!!
If they don't want to be an "Internet Service Provider", then get the hell out of the internet business.
Don't offer me their crap and call it internet, by their definition. |
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