Slashdot discussion re: Verizon Fios customer's experience:
However, his Netflix video streams were limping along at just
375kbps (0.375mbps), equivalent to 0.5 percent of the speed he's
paying for. On a hunch, he decided to connect to a VPN service,
which in theory should actually make
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Ronan
Slashdot discussion re: Verizon Fios customer's experience:
However, his Netflix video streams were limping along at just
375kbps (0.375mbps), equivalent to 0.5
On 7/26/2014 10:57 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
Yup, but remember there are two possible explanations why:
Neither of which are at all relevant. All Netflix traffic is encrypted
but this did not prevent Comcast from intentionally degrading Netflix
traffic throughput. All Netflix traffic is
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 02:25:06AM +, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Stuart Conner
When we, the consumers band together and demand that our isp's not slow
down our, the
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Anderson
If they broke the contract, take then to small claims court.
That was 2-3 years ago, they technically didn't break the contract because they
WROTE the contract
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 9:12 AM, 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 Chuck Anderson
If they broke the contract, take then to small claims court.
That was 2-3 years
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:25:40AM -0400, Bill Bogstad wrote:
VZ for land lines (and even FIOS) is at least somewhat a regulated
monopoly. As such, they might be legally required to provide service
(as long as you don't legally owe them money). The nice thing about
this is that there is
Bill Bogstad wrote:
VZ for land lines (and even FIOS) is at least somewhat a regulated
monopoly. ...you could get the appropriate state regulatory agency
involved on your side.
My understanding is that once you get rid of your copper phone lines,
the state regulatory agency is out of the
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Tom Metro tmetro+...@gmail.com wrote:
Bill Bogstad wrote:
VZ for land lines (and even FIOS) is at least somewhat a regulated
monopoly. ...you could get the appropriate state regulatory agency
involved on your side.
My understanding is that once you get rid of
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Subject: [Discuss] Https - the solution to net neutrality and ISP
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When we, the consumers
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From: Edward Ned Harvey (blu) b...@nedharvey.com
To: discuss@blu.org discuss@blu.org
Subject: [Discuss] Https - the solution to net neutrality and ISP
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From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Stuart Conner
When we, the consumers band together and demand that our isp's not slow
down our, the customer's, net activity and/or change isp's and say why
we're leaving. They
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
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
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
b...@nedharvey.com wrote:
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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
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,
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
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