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Comcast Has 30 Days To 'Fess Up About P2P Throttling
negRo_slim writes with some welcome news from Ars Technica: "Comcast has 30 days to disclose the details of its 'unreasonable network management practices' to the Federal Communications Commission, the agency warned Wednesday morning as it released its full, 67-page Order. As FCC Chair Kevin Martin said it would, the Commission's Order rejects the ISP giant's insistence that its handling of peer-to-peer applications was necessary. 'We conclude that the company's discriminatory and arbitrary practice unduly squelches the dynamic benefits of an open and accessible Internet,' the agency declares." And from reader JagsLive comes news that Comcast has a different plan in place to deal with heavy bandwidth users: slow traffic for up to 20 minutes at a time to users who are grabbing the most bits.
NO NO NO NO NO! FUCK YOU! AND FUCK THAT QOS SHIT!
*I* buy the connection and i want every damm thing i do on it to have the same QOS and all traffic be treated equally.
If *I* need QOS managment then *I* will do it. Not the isp. they will fuck it up. you know they will fuck it up. when has a company ever NOT fucked something up like that.
Fuck you. I want all my traffic to be treated equally by the isp. NO MATTER WHAT THE FUCK I AM DOING!
If i need traffic managment. I'll do it my damm self. You isps sold me a connection and i expect it to work equally well for any type of traffic.
*insert whiny argument that you cant actually expect to get what you actually pay for*
diaf you little bastards. i am so fucking sick of that attitude.
The answer is to charge everyone and as part of that you get, say, 10GB of transfer or 20GB of transfer (the number would vary depending on the plan, as would the speed you get). If you go over that amount, you pay per GB or part thereof. The file sharing fanatics who are downloading video content 500 times faster than they could ever watch it all would pay more but normal users would continue to pay as they always have. And there would be no need to throttle.