[Discuss] Https - the solution to net neutrality and ISP monopolies

2014-07-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
Every night when I put my daughter to bed, I read her a book, or we play flashlight shadow puppets, or we watch videos such as The Duck Song, or Blackbeard, Bluebeard, Redbeard. We watch netflix, youtube, etc. Recently I noticed, that all our video streams get interrupted annoyingly

Re: [Discuss] Https - the solution to net neutrality and ISP monopolies

2014-07-22 Thread Bill Horne
On 7/22/2014 9:10 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: Recently I noticed, that all our video streams get interrupted annoyingly frequently. Buffering every 1-15 minutes, it's infuriating. Sometimes I can dumb down the connection, switching to CC instead of HD. Sometimes it helps. Not

Re: [Discuss] Https - the solution to net neutrality and ISP monopolies

2014-07-22 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) b...@nedharvey.com wrote: ... So I got to thinking, could encryption be used to circumvent greedy ISP's systematically? If everything were encrypted and unidentifiable, then the only thing they could do would be to throttle *all* the

[Discuss] any decent NTFS implementations for Linux?

2014-07-22 Thread Bill Bogstad
I have a USB 3.0 hard drive which I can write at over 100Mbyte/sec via Linux native filesystems. However, when I use the FUSE-based NTFS filesystem (so I can share the disk with Windows machines), it drops down to 1Mbytes/sec. I'm running an updated Ubuntu 12.04 (with the 14.04 trusty kernel

Re: [Discuss] business class ISP recommendations

2014-07-22 Thread Tom Metro
Tom Metro wrote: ...I'm looking to get business class Internet service for a home office. At my location I have an embarrassment of riches and yet none of these are companies I want to do business with: Verizon Business FIOS Comcast Business cable Internet RCN Business cable Internet All

Re: [Discuss] Https - the solution to net neutrality and ISP monopolies

2014-07-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey (blu) It's the same content, being delivered over the same network, only it's encrypted and hidden from FiOS's routers. There's no other explanation, simply,

Re: [Discuss] business class ISP recommendations

2014-07-22 Thread Stephen Ronan
If you were in their limited Boston/Cambridge footprint, I'd highly recommend Netblazr for fixed wireless. -s. On Tue, 22 Jul 2014, Tom Metro wrote: Tom Metro wrote: ...I'm looking to get business class Internet service for a home office. At my location I have an embarrassment of riches

Re: [Discuss] Https - the solution to net neutrality and ISP monopolies

2014-07-22 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
Could be worse. In my neighborhood the reasonable choices are Comcast, Comcast, and Comcast. On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) b...@nedharvey.com wrote: From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Tom