{grumbles and withholds yet another rant about the default value of "Reply" on the mailing list}
-- -Tom http://www.tarogue.net/~tom/ --- On Wed, 4/7/10, TARogue <taro...@yahoo.com> wrote: > From: TARogue <taro...@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: We need a better Internet in America > To: "Seth Cohn" <sethc...@gnuhampshire.org> > Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 9:42 AM > --- On Wed, 4/7/10, Seth Cohn <sethc...@gnuhampshire.org> > wrote: > > Try http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20001825-38.html > > Written by the awesome Declan McCullagh, who is not > only a > > good reporter, but a techy who understands the issues, > and > > writes followups (6 as I type this). > > > > Net Neutrality will only give the government more > control > > over the net. Sorry, but that's a bad thing, in my > book. > > Please name one instance where the government getting > involved has truly > > made things faster, cheaper and/or better. (pick 2.. > they often try do > > one at the expense of the other 2) > > > Libraries, USPS, Medicare, Military ... > > > The net, from the very start, treats censorship (which > is > > the major complaint Net Neutralists tout - slower > access is just a > > subtle form of censorship), as damage and routes > around it. If we > > have companies, like Comcast, who abuse their > providerships, we route > > around them, sooner or later. > > > Nice theory, but not actually true in practice. A friend > and I were in a chat program, and she directed me to a web > page. She was in Ohio, I in NH, the site in California. She > got to it fine, and since I could get to her (via chat) it > would follow that I should get to the site. But no, there > was a break between me and the site and rather than go > around, the packets just kept hitting the wall. The routers > on the net send you in specific directions based on previous > 'good' paths and won't change the route until some specific > event triggers a change. And without some impetus to make > that change you're stuck. And good luck finding more than > one broadband provider in the woods of NH. My choice is > Metrocast, or Metrocast. > > > Seth > > > > -- > -Tom > http://www.tarogue.net/~tom/ > > > > _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/