On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 07:28:06PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote: > On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > but do i get "the Internet"? ... your claim is that > > i am not paying for it. my bills indicate that i -am- > > paying for it. (regardless of priority... after all, the > > Internet is "best-effort" ... and w/ QoS, i don't get that > > anymore... i get the choice to buy crap instead of best effort...) > > Best effort is the top-tier of the QoS/priority pyramid... as > > sad as that is. > > You start with a flawed assumption, you end up with wrong conclusions. > Who said this had anything to do with "the Internet"?
well... the press? the telco marketing droids?? ------- = Telecoms want their products to travel on a faster Internet = Major site owners oppose 2-tier system = By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff | December 13, 2005 = <http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/12/13/ = telecoms_want_their_products_to_travel_on_a_faster_internet/> = = AT&T Inc. and BellSouth Corp. are lobbying Capitol Hill for the right = to create a two-tiered Internet, where the telecom carriers' own = Internet services would be transmitted faster and more efficiently = than those of their competitors. ------ darn that pesky Internet word keeps cropping up. to borrow a phrase; "... I do not think it means what you think it means..." - Princess Bride > Instead, this is about additional private network services, which cable > companies already do over coax, that telco's want to offer over a > multiservice access line in addition to "the Internet." Coax can carry > over a Gigibit of data, but cable companies usually sell user's less > than 10Mbps for Internet data. Cable companies reserve the rest of > the their network capacity for private services like HBO, video on > demand and voice. Just because part of a physical line is used for > Internet service doesn't mean everything going across the same line > is the Internet. sure... if thats really the case. > The telephone companies are asking for the same ability to sell multiple > services over the same physical line. Cable companies didn't make their > Internet service slower when they add more private services, why do > people expect the telephone companies to make their Internet service > worse when the telephone companies add private services to their network? they should not call it "the Internet" then should they? :)