Wired: We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality — And the Internet as We Know It

Discussion in 'Blazers OT Forum' started by santeesioux, Nov 5, 2013.

Moderators: 6

Moderators

  1. BrianFromWA
  2. Chris Craig
  3. Darkwebs
  4. Ed O
  5. PtldPlatypus
  6. SlyPokerDog
Page 1 of 2
  1. santeesioux

    santeesioux Just keep on scrolling by

    Joined:
    Dec 3, 2008
    Messages:
    10,747
    Likes Received:
    5,327
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Occupation:
    Trolling the internet
    Location:
    Southern Oregon
    Once upon a time, companies like AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, and others declared a war on the internet’s foundational principle: that its networks should be “neutral” and users don’t need anyone’s permission to invent, create, communicate, broadcast, or share online. The neutral and level playing field provided by permissionless innovation has empowered all of us with the freedom to express ourselves and innovate online without having to seek the permission of a remote telecom executive.

    But today, that freedom won’t survive much longer if a federal court — the second most powerful court in the nation behind the Supreme Court, the DC Circuit — is set to strike down the nation’s net neutrality law, a rule adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in 2010. Some will claim the new solution “splits the baby” in a way that somehow doesn’t kill net neutrality and so we should be grateful. But make no mistake: Despite eight years of public and political activism by multitudes fighting for freedom on the internet, a court decision may soon take it away.

    http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/11/so-the-internets-about-to-lose-its-net-neutrality/
     
    santeesioux, Nov 5, 2013
    #1
  2. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

    Joined:
    May 24, 2007
    Messages:
    72,978
    Likes Received:
    10,673
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Occupation:
    Never lost a case
    Location:
    Boston Legal
    Sorry, but I don't see what all the noise is over this issue.

    We've had premium bandwidth for years and end users don't give it a thought. Yes, Google has amazing bandwidth, reachability, and proximity to the end user. Can you remember a time when Google was actually down or you couldn't reach it? I mean when you had an actual internet connection so it would be their "fault."

    I've had both Cox and Time Warner cable and both block port 80 so I can't run a WWW server off my consumer line.

    In fact, consumer bandwidth is almost universally asymmetric. That is, you get much faster speeds downloading than you do uploading (uploading is roughly equivalent to serving WWW pages). On top of that, if the neighbors are all playing video games, my bandwidth could be squeezed to something lower than I pay for.

    They have had QoS (quality of service) routing for a long time, too. Audio and Video streams get higher priority so they're not interrupted by everyone downloading the latest Ubuntu release or OSX release or apps on their phones or whatever.

    S2's servers are hosted at a carrier grade facility. The bandwidth and everything about the hosting is premium. It costs money.

    I'm sure GoDaddy pays for premium bandwidth, too. If you host your WWW site with them for pennies, you can serve WWW pages using that bandwidth, too.

    What am I missing?
     
    Denny Crane, Nov 5, 2013
    #2
  3. santeesioux

    santeesioux Just keep on scrolling by

    Joined:
    Dec 3, 2008
    Messages:
    10,747
    Likes Received:
    5,327
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Occupation:
    Trolling the internet
    Location:
    Southern Oregon
    But dem evil ISPs Denny!
     
    santeesioux, Nov 5, 2013
    #3
  4. BlazerCaravan

    BlazerCaravan Hug a Bigot... to Death

    Joined:
    Sep 20, 2008
    Messages:
    28,071
    Likes Received:
    10,384
    Trophy Points:
    113
    It's the possibility of only getting NBC content if you're on Comcast... The ability for cable companies to use access as leverage in negotiations. Just because that's how it is now doesn't mean it's right.
     
    BlazerCaravan, Nov 5, 2013
    #4
  5. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

    Joined:
    May 24, 2007
    Messages:
    72,978
    Likes Received:
    10,673
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Occupation:
    Never lost a case
    Location:
    Boston Legal
    If your ISP denies you quality of service, find another ISP.

    If there aren't other ISPs, there will be.
     
    Denny Crane, Nov 5, 2013
    #5
  6. BlazerCaravan

    BlazerCaravan Hug a Bigot... to Death

    Joined:
    Sep 20, 2008
    Messages:
    28,071
    Likes Received:
    10,384
    Trophy Points:
    113
    How long does it take to spin up an ISP?
     
    BlazerCaravan, Nov 5, 2013
    #6
  7. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

    Joined:
    May 24, 2007
    Messages:
    72,978
    Likes Received:
    10,673
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Occupation:
    Never lost a case
    Location:
    Boston Legal
    Seriously? 30 days - I did it once.
     
    Denny Crane, Nov 5, 2013
    #7
  8. TradeNurkicNow

    TradeNurkicNow piss

    Joined:
    Sep 16, 2008
    Messages:
    5,197
    Likes Received:
    678
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Occupation:
    hell
    Location:
    shit
    We should all just use BBSes.
     
    TradeNurkicNow, Nov 5, 2013
    #8
  9. BlazerCaravan

    BlazerCaravan Hug a Bigot... to Death

    Joined:
    Sep 20, 2008
    Messages:
    28,071
    Likes Received:
    10,384
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Who's infrastructure did you use? How was your speed?
     
    BlazerCaravan, Nov 5, 2013
    #9
  10. Nikolokolus

    Nikolokolus There's always next year

    Joined:
    Sep 19, 2008
    Messages:
    30,704
    Likes Received:
    6,198
    Trophy Points:
    113
    There isn't that much choice in the marketplace, in my experience.
     
    Nikolokolus, Nov 5, 2013
    #10
  11. barfo

    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

    Joined:
    Sep 15, 2008
    Messages:
    34,390
    Likes Received:
    25,448
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Location:
    Blazer OT board
    I don't know, Denny. I've studied this topic for a good 5 minutes now, so I might be completely off base.

    But suppose I get my internet service from Comcast (I do). Suppose Comcast is evil (it is). There are other internet service providers available, but they'd all be slower.

    Now suppose Comcast decides it wants to make money from S2, so it tells you that you can either pay them, or they'll make your site run so damn slow I can't post.

    Is that not a problem?

    barfo
     
    barfo, Nov 5, 2013
    #11
  12. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

    Joined:
    May 24, 2007
    Messages:
    72,978
    Likes Received:
    10,673
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Occupation:
    Never lost a case
    Location:
    Boston Legal
    I bought from multiple carriers for redundancy. It's called being multi-homed.

    How was the speed? Terrific.
     
    Denny Crane, Nov 5, 2013
    #12
  13. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

    Joined:
    May 24, 2007
    Messages:
    72,978
    Likes Received:
    10,673
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Occupation:
    Never lost a case
    Location:
    Boston Legal
    While it's technically possible, they already don't do blocking or filtering by single IP en masse. It's a huge burden on the carrier infrastructure. Rather, they deal with whole blocks of IP addresses, so they'd be blocking S2 and hundreds of other WWW sites. Or not.

    Google CIDR if you want to read about it.
     
    Denny Crane, Nov 5, 2013
    #13
  14. BlazerCaravan

    BlazerCaravan Hug a Bigot... to Death

    Joined:
    Sep 20, 2008
    Messages:
    28,071
    Likes Received:
    10,384
    Trophy Points:
    113
    So if spinning up a terrific ISP is so easy, why are there so few options in Portland?
     
    BlazerCaravan, Nov 5, 2013
    #14
  15. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

    Joined:
    May 24, 2007
    Messages:
    72,978
    Likes Received:
    10,673
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Occupation:
    Never lost a case
    Location:
    Boston Legal
    Denny Crane, Nov 5, 2013
    #15
  16. barfo

    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

    Joined:
    Sep 15, 2008
    Messages:
    34,390
    Likes Received:
    25,448
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Location:
    Blazer OT board
    Yeah, if there were billions of dollars to be made, I doubt anyone would invest in infrastructure... certainly not a big phone/cable company.

    barfo
     
    barfo, Nov 5, 2013
    #16
  17. BlazerCaravan

    BlazerCaravan Hug a Bigot... to Death

    Joined:
    Sep 20, 2008
    Messages:
    28,071
    Likes Received:
    10,384
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Five of the top 10 are the same provider: Verizon.
     
    BlazerCaravan, Nov 5, 2013
    #17
  18. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

    Joined:
    May 24, 2007
    Messages:
    72,978
    Likes Received:
    10,673
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Occupation:
    Never lost a case
    Location:
    Boston Legal
    There are 94 of them.
     
    Denny Crane, Nov 5, 2013
    #18
  19. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

    Joined:
    May 24, 2007
    Messages:
    72,978
    Likes Received:
    10,673
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Occupation:
    Never lost a case
    Location:
    Boston Legal
    Netflix hosts on Amazon AWS cloud services. The two companies compete with streaming video services. Imagine that.

    Netflix is paying Amazon to build the infrastructure required for its service.

    Netflix is not paying Time Warner or Cox or anyone else to build the infrastructure to deliver their content.
     
    Denny Crane, Nov 5, 2013
    #19
  20. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

    Joined:
    May 24, 2007
    Messages:
    72,978
    Likes Received:
    10,673
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Occupation:
    Never lost a case
    Location:
    Boston Legal
    Denny Crane, Nov 5, 2013
    #20
Page 1 of 2

Share This Page