generic - Today at 9:47 PM
it's great and all except for that hard part where packets aren't actually neutral
if you're bored feel free to look up the netflix peering "incident"
1. have a lot of downstream customers on Comcast
2. buy all bandwidth with peering agreements to Comcast
3. wonder aloud why Comcast will not upgrade their infrastructure so you can spam packets at them for free
it's abstracted over with peering agreements, but peering agreements assume that bandwidth is about equal both ways, and if it's not then ISPs are generally not happy
instead Reddit thinks this is about !! PRIORITY ACCESS FOR TWITCH ISP CONSPIRACY TO NOT LET YOU STREAM IN 400000K !!
ISP does not give a crap about that because they allocate a certain amount of bandwidth between N people oversubbed and redirect all complaints to the "have you tried resetting your router" hotline
I managed to get past that once but it took about one week of badgering their customer support before they came over and oops they had a line connected to basically static
(that was why I had extreme lag for several weeks during EN)
it might actually matter a bit to the customer if there were metering, but as we're not in Australia, nobody has metering
except cell phone users, who this is generally assomed would benefit
I'd like to find actual information as to why the above is not true, but courtesy of reddit and the EFF, all I can find is ridiculous hyperbole
also, if you want to find out what's actually in your agreement with your ISP, try hosting a tor relay sometime
great fun, also you will need to find a new ISP after
also retain a lawyer in advance to answer 5 millionth question from FBI
generic - Today at 10:00 PM
these reddit quotes are comedy gold though
> What net neutrality aims to prevent is large companies or wealthy people being able to pay for a 'fast lane', while the little guy gets stuck with a slow speed limit because they can only afford the slower lanes.
yeah, I will tell you a secret
"large companies or wealthy people" have leased dedicated lines
you don't
if you want to see what that costs try to look up the cost for a T3 which is a whole 1.5 Mbps
the post that's from is so bad that "the internet is a series of tubes" is more accurate
on the other end, big content providers (e.g. Netflix) already pressure ISPs into giving them preferential treatment
if you are a sufficiently large ISP, netflix will generously allow you to pay them to host their content in your data c