[opendtv] Re: Commissioner Rosenworcel and NAB on next gen TV
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 02:09:21 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
You do not need more than 1 Mbps Bert. We are talking about education Bert,
not entertainment. Internet courseware "may" include streaming video,
Yes, Craig, and when making your proclamations, don't forget that I'm the one
who used DSL most, and most recently, between the two of us. So forgive me if I
don't believe your assertions. Even 1.5 Mb/s started becoming problematic. If
rebooting the modem didn't come up with at least 1.8 Mb/s, things became very
marginal. Such as, unrelated to streaming, using a VPN could become iffy. If
your VPN connection times out, re-establishing it became difficult, usually
requiring a reboot. Or even if the VPN could be re-established, your
credentials wouldn't be re-established without a reboot. This sort of thing.
Besides which, this is another waste of time. It's not like DSL is ubiquitous
either. The distance limits are not that big, and the faster variants down to
hundreds of feet at most.
As of today, 4 or 5 Mb/s is probably good enough as a minimum, but
soon it won't be.
Why?
More wasting time with the obvious! Because that's the way software goes,
Craig. You can't use dialup anymore either. The more time passes, the more the
sources of information assume people have faster and faster connections. Duh.
Repetitive, boring, inaccurate rant deleted.
And yet, that was the most important part, and by far. You seem to prefer
dwelling on mundane banalities of the worst sort.
So again, you proved to be clueless about what constitutes the Internet.
Amazingly so, considering that we've been over all of this so recently. All of
this stuff is readily available online, for free, so there's simply no excuse
to remain ignorant.
The DC Circuit Court figured it out, by 2015, so you should too. There is no
credible argument you can make that differentiates how businesses, or just
people, use the telephone network, compared with how they use the Internet, in
terms of the telecom nature of the respective services. Maybe, back in 1996,
people could be excused for not getting this, because after all, they called
their ISP much like they called their bank. NOT TRUE ANYMORE.
Luckily, the DC Circuit Court, not being brain-dead or disingenuously
opportunist, felt no compulsion to cling to obsolete ideas. They got it, and
they told the FCC what path it had to take. AND THE VAST MAJORITY AGREED!! And
the court reaffirmed its decision!! And the vast majority agreed again!!
Disingenuous opportunists may well pretend they don't get it, for self-serving
reasons, but what on earth compels you continue with your dumbass assertions?
The Internet is every bit the telecom service that the phone network was, and
is. By any possible definition of "telecom." And I quoted you a number of them.
So, don't expect to repeat the disingenuous mantra, and have any credibility.
Not sure which post you are talking about.
I explained it. Monty's post, yesterday. We do not want an FCC, pushing now to
allow non-neutral Internet service, to favor only a handful of special
interests rather than the public it is paid to serve, to create that climate on
the Internet. We do not want ISPs to be making deals with one or another web
service, to tell us how much we have to pay for Internet service based on what
sites they graciously allow. We don't want that culture to pollute the
Internet, Craig. Opportunists, maybe on the take, might find it appealing. The
rest of us don't.
Bert
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