Americans From Both Political Parties Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality, Poll Shows (mozilla.org)

Mozilla conducted a survey in which it found that a majority of Americans do not trust the government to protect Internet access. From an article, shared by a reader: A recent public opinion poll carried out by Mozilla and Ipsos revealed overwhelming support across party lines for net neutrality, with over three quarters of Americans (76%) supporting net neutrality. Eighty-one percent of Democrats and 73% of Republicans are in favor of it. Another key finding: Most Americans do not trust the U.S. government to protect access to the Internet. Seventy percent of Americans place no or little trust in the Trump administration or Congress (78%) to do so. Mozilla and Ipsos carried out the poll in late May, on the heels of the FCC's vote to begin dismantling Obama-era net neutrality rules. We polled approximately 1,000 American adults across the U.S., a sample that included 354 Democrats, 344 Republicans, and 224 Independents.

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Clear and Simple

[Tenebrousedge]

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."

It makes zero sense to reserve dedicated bandwidth for most consumers. Measuring bandwidth to the ISP's routers is the best option and it's still pretty useless as an indication of real world speeds. If you're not willing to pay extra for a SLA that's on you.

I feel like the quality of your posts has decreased markedly in the last few years.

Re:Clear and Simple

[Strider-]

Right, and their networks (Electric and Water supply) can't supply every customer at their rated capacity either.

In the case of the water system, this is observable in cities who's local sports team is partaking in the league championship. During half time/intermission, the water reservoirs drain noticeably due to everyone relieving themselves and flushing. If everyone was using their water supply at full capacity, the infrastructure and the source would not be able to sustain it.

Same thing with the electrical grid. Look at the problems they've had in California over the years with daytime peaking, load management, and so forth. If everyone used all the power available to them all the time, the utility simply would not be able to sustain it. If you were/are using your full 200A service to capacity, all the time, the power company is going to come and figure out what's going on. Near where I grew up, a couple of neighbors on large properties got into a neighborly competition around each Christmas as to who could present the most spectacular light display. In the end, the power company had to rebuild the network in their neiborhood to supply the additional load without impacting their non-participating neighbors. The grid just wasn't built to have two houses, off of one transformer, where both were drawing 200A continuously for hours at a time.

The gas trunk line to your neighborhood is sized for the average usage of the area it serves, plus some margin. If everyone's furnace was running full bore, all stove burners on, hot water tanks, etc... the pressure would drop, demand would slow down, and the system would stabilize, and you would be wondering why you're getting piss poor flame out of your stove.

The difference is that, in the case of Electricity it's metered, so the more you use, the more you pay. Also, it's pretty common to have a step function in there. You pay one rate up to X kWh used, and Y thereafter.

So yeah, your comparison is flawed. The only way it would work is if you were willing to accept a metered account. Are you? I didn't think so. Instead, you get best effort.