Author Topic: Fox News says killing N.N. will save the internet  (Read 5593 times)

Sounds like they need to work on getting better infrastructure rather than throttling connections and lobbying against net neutrality

i'm sure they'd be happy to as soon as someone pays for it

Man that would be a great retort if ISPs weren't actively wasting subsidies given to them to specifically expand infrastructure...

sounds to me like you're the one drinking the corporate koolaid here lmfao

They're talking inter-country traffic between two specific countries. Their peak traffic is all traffic across the globe, which includes their CDNs (content distribution networks) in each individual country so that the bulk of the traffic isn't going across countries. This is the basics of how these kinds of websites work. There is no issue with bandwidth whatsoever. This is the basics of how content distribution works.

And this is of no fault of their own; they're merely providing a paid service to users who are explicitly requesting that they send the data over. To say that an ISP has the right to extort money from a business because it's become popular and has many people requesting data from it is just silly.

There is no issue with bandwidth whatsoever.

what is a service provider supposed to do in areas with old or lower-capacity infrastructure? i (and a number of other people i know) live in an area with older infrastructure that is incapable of handling peak demand in the evenings and on weekends. it only started becoming an issue a few years ago when a number of our neighbors started using netflix, and that's been the case for other people i've asked

feel free to pay them to run fiber optic out to me though id appreciate it

feel free to pay them to run fiber optic out to me though id appreciate it

This was already tried, they just pocketed the money because they're corrupt as forget and there's almost no oversight involved. This is why removing regulations was a bad thing.

It's typical that services like Fox News would do stuff like this

they just pocketed the money because they're corrupt as forget and there's almost no oversight involved

almost like everything the government touches with "free money"

almost like everything the government touches with "free money"

the living rhetoric vending machine

https://www.cnet.com/news/netflix-reaches-streaming-traffic-agreement-with-comcast/

big companies using absurd amounts of bandwidth and flooring everyone else with the ISPs unable to do anything to ensure everything else is able to function in resource-limited situations

netflix and youtube alone were already well over 50% combined in 2015, can't imagine that's improved

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a20138/netflix-interview-wired-traffic-exceeds-internet-capacity/
right yeah, i can definitely see that as a potential issue for ISPs, especially as the use of these kinds of services grows. the way you were coming across is that you were suspicious about the motives of pro-NN corporations and had worries that they would somehow be enabled to hurt consumers more directly with net neutrality in place. if you can think of anything like that i'd be interested in hearing it cus i can't personally even come up with anything

almost like everything the government touches with "free money"
the solution, then, would be to implement oversight measures that make sure companies are using taxpayer money properly. the problem here isn't the concept itself

a lot of the issues in the US i think do have to do with the cost of actually becoming competitive in the broadband market. i'm definitely in favor of actually giving ISPs assistance in expanding their infrastructure like mentioned before if we can make sure that they actually use the money to build and upgrade. maybe even specific subsidies could be made for expansion in rural areas. i don't think the answer is to let ISPs start picking out their customers' packets to figure out how much more money they should be making from them. giving ISPs the power to do that is naive and there's already plenty of evidence to prove that suspicion

Cite an example of companies barring access to legal material, please. I honestly have never heard of this happening, just people saying it "could happen"
I'm pretty sure one of the big ISPs decided to throttle Netflix so Netflix had to pay them to not do that, which was before Net Neutrality.

i'm sure they'd be happy to as soon as someone pays for it

Isn’t that why I pay an internet bill every month?

anonymous just investigateed ajit pai holy forget

Man that would be a great retort if ISPs weren't actively wasting subsidies given to them to specifically expand infrastructure...

sounds to me like you're the one drinking the corporate koolaid here lmfao

wow it's almost like giving private corporations money from the government is a bad loving idea huh wowziers

anonymous just investigateed ajit pai holy forget

the virgin squad strikes again