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| CableZL 11/27/17 9:22:18 PM #18: | Mr Hangman posted... -Asking the government to regulate the internet more is just opening the door for more and more government control of what used to be a pretty free and open system. Don't be the fool who thinks that when the boot comes down it won't be on your neck. Since when has the US internet industry been a "pretty free and open system?" ISPs fight tooth and nail to prevent any upstart ISPs from actually coming to fruition. There are multiple cases of AT&T and Comcast trying to prevent cities from forming their own municipal broadband systems as well as fighting to prevent Google Fiber from becoming a thing. Mr Hangman posted... -Network congestion happens. Bandwidth demand grows with availability, so there will always be congestion. When there's congestion, something's gotta give. If there is not traffic prioritization, if no one and nothing is deliberately throttled, then the congestion will slow things down for everyone. On the other hand, if you throttle only the highest bandwidth applications (like streaming HD video), then everything else (web traffic, email, text messages, DNS, voice calls, you name it) can continue functioning normally. Take that option away and what will ISPs do? Data caps, which are totally kosher by net neutrality. Network congestion doesn't happen unless ISPs oversell their network capacity. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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