Nope, you guys are not understanding what they are talking about. Currently, the entire basis of the internet, and the basic underpinning of TCPIP is that all packets are treated equally. They are passed from here to there without regard to where it came from, and with no preferential treatment for any individual packet.
They find the quickest route from beginning to end, and make their way around slow places and outages. What these providers want to do is treat the END of the pipes, and the MIDDLE of the pipes differently. Unless YOU pay them more, they are going to put your packet into a slower low priority queue, which may never actually get delivered if there are a lot of high-priority packets to be delivered. They are saying that content providers (yahoo, google, cnn, etc) need to pay extra to get access to the end users behind the providers firewalls. A tax, a toll, or a protection fee. This is on top of the fee that a content provider pays to get access to the net, and on top of the fee that a user pays to get onto the net. This is akin to the USPS, DHL, and Fedex providing a service. A package gets sent out from Woot to my house. But when they get into my town, the post office decides that, unless woot pays extra, the package will get put in a "whenever we feel like delivering it" bin, even though I paid for overnight delivery. On 5/1/06, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First of all, there is no equality on the Net. I can go to Verizon or Level3 > and pay them gobs of money and get more bandwidth than the little guys. The > only change I perceive is the possibility that you would have to pay for a > ceiling as well as a floor, but even then, most ISPs already have a ceiling. > It might be very high, but it's there. If the ceiling is 100Kbps, that's > just silly. If the ceiling is 100Mbps, that's more than most companies will > ever need. Even 10Mbps is more than most will ever need. The only companies > that need a high ceiling are companies that can afford the bandwidth. > > > On 5/1/06, Vivec wrote: > > > > > > Once you accept that there is an advantage, ANY advantage that this > > creates for those Rich Corporations that can afford to pay, then you > > must also accept that this disastrously alters the free and level > > internet where once you pay for your bandwidth you have just as much > > service on a network from a provider as the other guy. > > > > That will no longer be the case. > > > > > > > -- > --------------- > Robert Munn > www.funkymojo.com > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:206001 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
