RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-02 Thread Nick McClure
age- > From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 2:51 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted > down by congress. > > ** Private ** wrote: > > Call it "Bandwidth Throttling"

RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-02 Thread Nick McClure
But at what point will that matter? If they start blocking then there is a problem. But I only see this as being an issue when the pipe is at or near capacity. At which point don't the providers have a responsibility to put some types of traffic above others? > -Original Message- > From: J

RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-02 Thread Nick McClure
Yeah, I love that thing. > -Original Message- > From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 4:24 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted > down by congress. > > ** Private *

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2006-05-02 Thread Jochem van Dieten
** Private ** wrote: > I'm not the network guy, but he doesn't always filter by port. He has > the ability to filter by the application name, or so he tells me. Maybe he filters by the evil bit. Jochem ~| Message: http://www.ho

Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-02 Thread Jochem van Dieten
** Private ** wrote: > Total of 3,200 users. Of course, not all on at the same time. > Simultaneous users would probably be around 500 employees/faculty and a > couple hundred students. > > We have 20Mb "internet" bandwidth. I occasionally watch HDTV broadcasts from Internet2 that are 20 Mbps a

RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-02 Thread Dawson, Michael
Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress. ** Private ** wrote: > Call it "Bandwidth Throttling". We do not block any content since we > are a liberal arts school. However, we do throttle the bandwidth for > content such as that for file shar

RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-02 Thread Dawson, Michael
al Message- From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 1:49 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress. ** Private ** wrote: > Our sys admin said it would choke on that. Our packet shaping only >

RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-02 Thread Nick McClure
It doesn't look like enough. We might be able to use something like that for ResNet. I think our stuff is segregated by building so put one at each building and that might be possible. > -Original Message- > From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For how many people? > > A

Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-02 Thread Jochem van Dieten
** Private ** wrote: > How does it deal with 10Gb throughput? Funny you are asking, I was just talking to a Packeteer sales rep about that last week. It doesn't, the current highest capacity Packeteer is offering is 1 Gbps. It is theoretically possibly to run 10 in parallel, but that either mak

Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-02 Thread Jochem van Dieten
** Private ** wrote: > Call it "Bandwidth Throttling". We do not block any content since we > are a liberal arts school. However, we do throttle the bandwidth for > content such as that for file sharing applications. And how do you know that it is file sharing? That requires knowledge layer 4 a

Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-02 Thread Jochem van Dieten
** Private ** wrote: > I think I understand perfectly. Here is the key phrase: "if there are a lot > of high-priority > packets to be delivered." So if bandwidth is saturated, lower priority > content gets put in the low-priority queue. Companies do this internally > with Internet-based WANs all th

Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-02 Thread Jochem van Dieten
** Private ** wrote: > Cisco routers can now do packet inspection and determine if the > communication is VOIP, ports don't matter anymore. Nothing can do packet inspection of IPSec or encrypted protocols. Jochem ~| Message: htt

Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-02 Thread Jochem van Dieten
** Private ** wrote: > Our sys admin said it would choke on that. Our packet shaping only > deals with our internet-routed data, not internal data. Our current > bandwidth is 20Mb. Our current packetshaper will handle 100Mb. I don't > know if there is a model that would support 10Gb. For how

Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-02 Thread DRE
Thats true, that business model is dependant on good connectivity and no dropping of packets because of traffic overloads as happened 10 years ago on the MAE-East thing you mentioned. But I thought you said that competition was the answer to this type of problem? Why hand them a tool that has cle

Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-02 Thread Robert Munn
Because they want to guarantee delivery of on-demand content like movies and videos. That's where the money is, but the whole business model only works if consumers have a good experience. If you pay $5 for a movie and you see all sorts of skips, pauses, and so forth because all the kids in the nei

Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-02 Thread DRE
> > As long as they don't shut anyone out, I don't > have a problem with it. > > And you just trust them not to? I wonder why they are spending SOOO much money on this if its just an extreme condition which "only comes into play when available bandwidth is saturated." -- DRE www.webmachineinc.c

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2006-05-02 Thread Nick McClure
tshaper will handle 100Mb. I don't > know if there is a model that would support 10Gb. > > -Original Message- > From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 7:41 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Those that said it would not happ

RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-02 Thread Dawson, Michael
From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 7:41 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress. How does it deal with 10Gb throughput? ~| Me

RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-02 Thread Nick McClure
h, then the priority won't matter. If a provider out right disallows the communication, then that is illegal. > -Original Message- > From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 8:41 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Those that said i

RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-02 Thread Nick McClure
How does it deal with 10Gb throughput? > -Original Message- > From: Dawson, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 8:17 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted > down by congress. >

RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-02 Thread Dawson, Michael
EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 10:03 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress. How do you deal with Skype? With the port switching and all it is almost impossible to tell. New torrent stuff is working the sam

RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-02 Thread Nick McClure
28 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted > down by congress. > > That isn't what the bill is about.Calling 911 is irrelevant to the > bill, and is not what people are arguing against. > > All the companies such as Microso

Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-02 Thread Vivec
That isn't what the bill is about.Calling 911 is irrelevant to the bill, and is not what people are arguing against. All the companies such as Microsoft et al who are arrayed against the bill are NOT uninformed at all.That alone should signal to you that there is error in your understanding of the

Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-02 Thread Robert Munn
And that's a big problem. A lot of folks don't get it. I understand Gel's well-informed apprehension, although I do not share it. Personally, I would hate to be unable to call 911 because all the kids in the neighboorhood are on Gamespy or playing Halo2. On 5/1/06, Nick McClure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-01 Thread Nick McClure
6 11:18 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted > down by congress. > > Cisco routers can now do packet inspection and determine if the > communication is VOIP, ports don't matter anymore. > > That technology is

Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-01 Thread Vivec
Cisco routers can now do packet inspection and determine if the communication is VOIP, ports don't matter anymore. That technology is actually part and parcel of the bill and is part of the reason why such a bill is now viable. On 5/1/06, Nick McClure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you deal

RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-01 Thread Nick McClure
would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress. Call it "Bandwidth Throttling". We do not block any content since we are a liberal arts school. However, we do throttle the bandwidth for content such as that for file sharing applications. We don't block you, but have fun

RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-01 Thread Dawson, Michael
-Original Message- From: Vivec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 3:56 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress. It's not about being full or not. It's about allowing faster access to a certain r

RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-01 Thread Nick McClure
ity > Subject: Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted > down by congress. > > And revoking the "net neutrality" provision (requiring passing on > packets without regard to origin or destination), and turning such > decisions in the future over to

RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-01 Thread Ethan Jericho
an control your own network in an emergency. -Original Message- From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 11:57 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress. I hope you say the same thing when we can

Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-01 Thread Skorp Croze
And revoking the "net neutrality" provision (requiring passing on packets without regard to origin or destination), and turning such decisions in the future over to the FTC (which, if you have been paying any attention over the last 6 years, no longer even pretends to not be in the hands of the lar

RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-01 Thread Nick McClure
; Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 6:45 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted > down by congress. > > Competition? Then why do we need this law for any other reason than

Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-01 Thread Robert Munn
I don't know, but I suspect regulation is responsible. The telcos and other backbone providers, like cable cos., are still heavily regulated. So they have to go begging to Congress for permission to enable traffic shaping and QoS on their network gear. As long as they don't shut anyone out, I don't

Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-01 Thread DRE
Competition? Then why do we need this law for any other reason than to stifle competition. DRE On 5/1/06, William Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But how level is it now? I'm pretty sure Amazon is already paying > boatloads to get faster > access to their content. > > I believe Amazon in

Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-01 Thread William Bowen
> But how level is it now? I'm pretty sure Amazon is already paying boatloads > to get faster > access to their content. I believe Amazon in the US is paying a shit-ton of money for faster access... In the UK it is an Imperial Shit-tonne on the Continent, a metric shit-ton and so forth. Hones

RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-01 Thread Nick McClure
to it when they can. > -Original Message- > From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 5:34 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted > down by congress. > > This is akin to the USPS,

Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-01 Thread Robert Munn
I think I understand perfectly. Here is the key phrase: "if there are a lot of high-priority packets to be delivered." So if bandwidth is saturated, lower priority content gets put in the low-priority queue. Companies do this internally with Internet-based WANs all the time. Does it make some thing

RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-01 Thread Nick McClure
> -Original Message- > From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 5:25 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted > down by congress. > > Nope, you guys are not understanding what they

RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-01 Thread Ian Skinner
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 overn

RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-01 Thread Nick McClure
nal Message- > From: Vivec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 4:56 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted > down by congress. > > It's not about being full or not. > It's about allowin

Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-01 Thread Jerry Johnson
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 fo

Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-01 Thread Robert Munn
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 cei

RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-01 Thread Ian Skinner
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 fro

Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-01 Thread Vivec
It's not about being full or not. It's about allowing faster access to a certain resource on the net before another. You attempt to access MyBookstore.com. It takes you 1 minute to download the content. You attempt to access Amazon.com, who have paid for service, it takes you 10 seconds to downloa

Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-01 Thread Robert Munn
That would be clearly illegal under US case law. On 5/1/06, Nick wrote: > > I think Gel contends, and correct me if I'm wrong, that these providers > will > out right block the content. > -- --- Robert Munn www.funkymojo.com ~

RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-01 Thread Ian Skinner
What other route? ALL the major carriers in the US are going to do this, your connection must terminate or pass through their network at some point. It REMOVES the level playing field of the internet totally. That's what I've been trying to point out.That's what the articles point out, that's w

RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-01 Thread Nick McClure
I think Gel contends, and correct me if I'm wrong, that these providers will out right block the content. > -Original Message- > From: Robert Munn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 4:34 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Those that said it w

Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-01 Thread Robert Munn
Now you are projecting that every major backbone provider will have saturated bandwidth at the same time and that will prevent regular traffic from getting through. I still contend that someone will come along to fill the gap, because it represents an opportunity to make money by providing a servic

Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-01 Thread Vivec
What other route? ALL the major carriers in the US are going to do this, your connection must terminate or pass through their network at some point. It REMOVES the level playing field of the internet totally. That's what I've been trying to point out.That's what the articles point out, that's wha

Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-01 Thread Robert Munn
Of course there are advantages to paying more for bandwidth. But if you are not serving video or phone/audio service, who cares about QoS? The situation you are predicting only comes into play when available bandwidth is saturated, and as I said, once that happens, the market will take care of the

RE: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-01 Thread Ian Skinner
I hope you say the same thing when we can't access House of FUsion because Michael can't pay additional fees to get the bandwidth, but still has a lot of traffic coming to the site. Your point of view is so naive. --- But isn't the whole idea of the internet is that data packets will find t

Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-05-01 Thread Vivec
I hope you say the same thing when we can't access House of FUsion because Michael can't pay additional fees to get the bandwidth, but still has a lot of traffic coming to the site. Your point of view is so naive. They don't have to block content outright. They can, however, cap the available ban

Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted down by congress.

2006-04-30 Thread Robert Munn
OK, so I finally took the time to look into what all of this hubbub is really about. As I understand it, Internet providers want to be able to use QoS services on their own pipes to push some content ahead of other content. All I can say is big freakin' deal. What Verizon, etc. are saying is that t