Just out of curiosity Bert...
If you buy the lowest tier broadband service from an ISP (say a max of 25 Mbps)
and I buy the fastest tier (say 250 Mbps) am I buying an Internet fast lane?
Just got back from dysfunctional Broward County. Both I-95 and the Florida
Turnpike have “Fast Lanes,” in addition to the HOV lanes. Not only do you pay
to use them, the price varies based on traffic conditions.
Last time I checked, these “freeways” are operated by local, state and the
Federal government. We pay for these roads through gas taxes and in some cases
local sales taxes.
Maybe we need “Freeway Neutrality” to reign in the “corrupt transportation
departments”
At least Blackburn is trying to follow the constitution - to LEGISLATE the
solution.
Regards
Craig
On Nov 10, 2018, at 8:23 PM, Manfredi (US), Albert E
<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Monty Solomon posted:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/net-neutrality-foe-marsha-blackburn-wins-us-senate-seat/
This is not as bad as it might sound, luckily. It's a more benign level of
technical ignorance than what the crooks at the FCC are attempting.
"Blackburn has authored several net neutrality bills the past few years,
including the 'Open Internet Preservation Act,' which would ban blocking and
throttling but allow ISPs to create paid fast lanes and prohibit state
governments from enacting their own net neutrality laws."
The good news is that neither blocking nor throttling would be tolerated.
The dumbass ignorant aspect is that "paid fast lanes" only make technical
sense if other streams are throttled. Paid fast lanes make sense if the
infrastructure, and primarily here it's the edge broadband service we're
talking about, is overbooked. In which case, certain packets can be given
priority service. They get moved to the front of the queue. What does she
think that means? What must you do with the packets that are bumped from the
head of the line?
I'll give her the benefit of the doubt. "Pointless throttling," meant only to
degrade the signal, isn't allowed.
The simple fact is, Tom Wheeler's FCC made some very logical decisions, when
they imposed telecom rules. They understood that any walled-in IPTV service,
which the MVPD might want to use for their MVPD "broadcast" streams, would be
given priority, legitimately. They understood that attempting to fine-tune
priorities in the ISP's Internet broadband service was a lost cause. They
explained all of that very clearly.
Now, instead, we have these pin-headed formula-thinker extremists in the
Republican Party that have made a partisan issue out of something that
everyone should want. Too stupid to think beyond their rigid formula, I could
easily tick off all of the formulaic causes they feel obliged to support, and
they let an utterly corrupt FCC Chairman lead them like lemmings.
Both parties are hopeless, for different reasons. The Republicans in Congress
need to get past their "party of stupid" reputation, and pay attention to the
fact that their approval rating is half what Trump's approval rating is. For
reasons just like this one.
Bert
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