Yes, it is a choice, of 10k a month rent or not. But seeing as I dont have a choice to be able to afford a 10k a month rent, where you live is not completely choice.
That is, again, not true. They depend on giving access to content that the customers want. Netflix does not send traffic to comcast, it is pulled by comcasts customers. If it was not for comcasts customers netflix would not be causing the imbalance... So who is at fault, comcast...
Correct, it just costs us more now because the government has to pay the broadband company. If they are going to do it anyways I would prefer to get rid of that cost, or have it go to my local government.
Is it so difficult to understand you will not get cheaper access? No matter what, you will pay more. Eventually it will be to the point that if it is not on comcasts network you will have to pay extra fees for it.
First of all you dont know how old I am, so your statement is very wild assumptions. I have paid taxes to help setup the internet to where it is now, I am not free-riding past investments of my parents. Also they just recently received a massive amount of money to upgrade and bring internet to the outskirts, that is money that I paid, not just my parents....
no, I read it and understood it.. The problem with your argument is that all of the netflx traffic coming from cogent is at the request of the ISPs customers. It is not like Comcast is hosting a site and netflix is requesting massive amounts of traffic off that site. I pay my internet bill to not only be able to send, but also receive data...
Do they degrade TWC traffic? How about ATT? How is it not selective? They are degrading one service provider because of netflix, that is the very definition of selective
I expect that the roads are capable of handling the traffic they claim to be capable of handling, and not charge a bordering state because I chose to go to that state to buy something. In addition you are assuming that netflix uses 15mb per second, and that ever single person is using netflix at the same time, a goss over simplification.
Does not matter what it was originally, once the Constitution was signed it became a centralized country. Even still your point A has not bearing on point B, especially since telcos cross state lines making them the responsibility of the federal government. Also point is that the federal government created the internet, so you would think that its use within the US would be under their purview
That does not matter if 100% of the traffic is at the request of thier customers. You would have a point if netflix was requesting huge amounts of traffic to comcast, as comcast does to netflix, but it does not, as netflix just hosts content.
Government under power and deregulation is what caused this. My assumption at this point is that you are a tea partier who sees no government control as the only good control, well I am here to tell you that is incorrect.
No regulation and this will just get worse. It has been shown time and time again. This is a market that requires hudge investment, and have huge monopolies already in place. Without major government intervention, at least paying for the infrastructure, there is no way many will come into the market. Even Google needed help in the areas it has come into.
That is no where near true, and shows you did not read the article. They are paying to stop the traffic jam comcast is providing. No netflix server will be hosted on Comcasts network, but comcast will allow peering to them.
Then they should not be offering x amount of bandwidth to users if they cannot handle that capacity. Netflix does not "send" traffic to comcast, comcasts customers "pull" that traffic. If anything Netflix should be charging comcast. Based on your logic every entertainment provider should be paying every ISP, because no ISP sends traffic to the entertainment provider.
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The reason " hard right Christians" get so worked up about it...I have no issue with your conclusion, but your entry needs work
Cant tell if using this strawman for healthcare is something you believe or just joking with, well done.
Yes, it is a choice, of 10k a month rent or not. But seeing as I dont have a choice to be able to afford a 10k a month rent, where you live is not completely choice.
We have caps as well.
That is, again, not true. They depend on giving access to content that the customers want. Netflix does not send traffic to comcast, it is pulled by comcasts customers. If it was not for comcasts customers netflix would not be causing the imbalance... So who is at fault, comcast...
I hope you die. Selfishness and greed are what is destroying this country.
Correct, it just costs us more now because the government has to pay the broadband company. If they are going to do it anyways I would prefer to get rid of that cost, or have it go to my local government.
It was paid for through the cable company. It is not like the government hired someone else to build it, they paid the cable companies to build it...
Could it be that there is some collusion going on?
And what is the speed of that 15/m connection, and link it to us from their page please...
Is it so difficult to understand you will not get cheaper access? No matter what, you will pay more. Eventually it will be to the point that if it is not on comcasts network you will have to pay extra fees for it.
You're right, good thing we already had those who want entertainment paying for it before this....
Less regulation will not help this matter. When MS was a monopoly did no regulation help stop them from their ways?
Citation please? I dont think those words mean what you think they do.
First of all you dont know how old I am, so your statement is very wild assumptions. I have paid taxes to help setup the internet to where it is now, I am not free-riding past investments of my parents. Also they just recently received a massive amount of money to upgrade and bring internet to the outskirts, that is money that I paid, not just my parents....
Well thinking Selfishness and greed are good traits is one of the definitions of being an asshole, so he is correct.
Do they degrade TWC traffic? How about ATT? How is it not selective? They are degrading one service provider because of netflix, that is the very definition of selective
That is a giant logical leap that is not grounded in reality... The internet was paid for by us through the government, and is used by us.
I expect that the roads are capable of handling the traffic they claim to be capable of handling, and not charge a bordering state because I chose to go to that state to buy something. In addition you are assuming that netflix uses 15mb per second, and that ever single person is using netflix at the same time, a goss over simplification.
Does not matter what it was originally, once the Constitution was signed it became a centralized country. Even still your point A has not bearing on point B, especially since telcos cross state lines making them the responsibility of the federal government. Also point is that the federal government created the internet, so you would think that its use within the US would be under their purview
That does not matter if 100% of the traffic is at the request of thier customers. You would have a point if netflix was requesting huge amounts of traffic to comcast, as comcast does to netflix, but it does not, as netflix just hosts content.
Government under power and deregulation is what caused this. My assumption at this point is that you are a tea partier who sees no government control as the only good control, well I am here to tell you that is incorrect.
No regulation and this will just get worse. It has been shown time and time again. This is a market that requires hudge investment, and have huge monopolies already in place. Without major government intervention, at least paying for the infrastructure, there is no way many will come into the market. Even Google needed help in the areas it has come into.
That is no where near true, and shows you did not read the article. They are paying to stop the traffic jam comcast is providing. No netflix server will be hosted on Comcasts network, but comcast will allow peering to them.
Then they should not be offering x amount of bandwidth to users if they cannot handle that capacity. Netflix does not "send" traffic to comcast, comcasts customers "pull" that traffic. If anything Netflix should be charging comcast. Based on your logic every entertainment provider should be paying every ISP, because no ISP sends traffic to the entertainment provider.