This is why network neutrality is essential to a free society and probably why the neocons want to take it away from us. There is no end to the subtle and not so subtle mischief by which the self-appointed gatekeepers of the Internet can control us. In your case they want you to move up to a more expensive level of service so they manipulate your access. When you ask questions you get a bunch of doubletalk and finger pointing.
So what is your ISP doing for you that is so special? Have you looked into any of the national providers of dial-up access, like PeoplePC, NetZero, or Earthlink. >My ISP has informed me that while they do not have any restrictions >of any sort placed upon any of their customers in terms of bandwidth >usage, there could be other limitations being imposed by the entities >that provide the wholesaling of content that my ISP "buys" from them. >Or, Youtube itself is placing limits upon the availability of their >data based upon a range of certain IP addresses, primarily those that >serve to "wholesale" data to ISPs, either of which could explain my >recent problems in being able to view longer videos online. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
