Re: Alacarte Cable and Geeks

2010-12-16 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > the 80s when that practice got started -- having to account for each > individual subscriber pushed the complexity up, in much the same way > that flat rate telecom services are popular equally because customers > prefer them, and because the

Re: OT - NO (Non-Operational) Question

2010-12-16 Thread Joe Blanchard
Thanks Jay To add to this Sleepy here but a quick script ((linux for you windows guys) [r...@sumless3 jgb]# cat send_text.sh #!/bin/sh echo "go" # Server's IP address # IP_ADDRESS='some_smtp_relay.com' mf="mail from:" rp="rcpt to:" echo $mf (sleep 2 ;\ echo "HELO guess.net";\ slee

Re: OT - NO (Non-Operational) Question

2010-12-16 Thread Joe Blanchard
Sorry to alll, Yes that in a nutshell woud be my question along with tracking it,, Thanks jay - Joe On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - > > From: "Andrew Haninger" > > To: "Joe Blanchard" > > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > > Sent: Friday, December 17, 20

Re: OT - NO (Non-Operational) Question

2010-12-16 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Andrew Haninger" > To: "Joe Blanchard" > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 1:28:47 AM > Subject: Re: OT - NO (Non-Operational) Question > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Joe Blanchard > wrote: > > > It appears there's really no easy wa

Re: OT - NO (Non-Operational) Question

2010-12-16 Thread Andrew Haninger
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Joe Blanchard wrote: > It appears there's really no easy way to determine the origin of a text > sent to a cell... > For shortcodes, Neustar provided a list: https://www.usshortcodes.com/csc/directory/directoryList.do?method=showDirectory&group=all For regular

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "George Bonser" > Turn the question around. What would any provider think if a city said > "sure, you can have access to our residents' eyeballs. It will cost > you $5 per subscriber per month". Would Comcast or anyone go for that? > That is a real question, b

RE: Alacarte Cable and Geeks

2010-12-16 Thread Frank Bulk
The primary reason for the lack of a la carte is that the content providers tie groups of channels together, sometimes for prices less than one of those channels on a stand-a-lone basis. The secondary reason is the one you list as your first, and that's keeping track of what customer has what

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "JC Dill" > What customers *really* want, and what they gladly accept as long as > it saves them a few pennies, are miles apart. (Which is why so many > people blindly give their data to Facebook etc.) This is why I think the > direction Comcast is going is ul

Alacarte Cable and Geeks

2010-12-16 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Brian Rettke" > Interesting point. I'd also like to point out that putting the cost on > the content providers rather than the network may raise the cost of > the content service, but only to those that want that service. In > effect, if the transport provide

OT - NO (Non-Operational) Question

2010-12-16 Thread Joe Blanchard
Happy holidays to all. Quick question with regard "Text/SMS" messaging. I know this is not really the place to ask, so forgive me for bending your eyes. It appears there's really no easy way to determine the origin of a text sent to a cell, at least as far as I can see without involving the provid

Re: BGP Attribute 92 ?

2010-12-16 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
On 12/16/2010 10:41 PM, Randy Bush wrote: >>> Unknown BGP attribute 92 (flags: 234) >>> Hexdump start--- >>> DD 78 FF 71 >>> Hexdump end >> This appeared to bite my Level3-connected bandwidth as well. > > sigh. is this an attack by a black hat, or by an rir and researchers > who do not know

Re: BGP Attribute 92 ?

2010-12-16 Thread Randy Bush
>> Unknown BGP attribute 92 (flags: 234) >> Hexdump start--- >> DD 78 FF 71 >> Hexdump end > This appeared to bite my Level3-connected bandwidth as well. sigh. is this an attack by a black hat, or by an rir and researchers who do not know how to say "oops, sorreee!?" randy

Re: BGP Attribute 92 ?

2010-12-16 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
On 12/16/2010 5:57 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: > Someone seems to have leaked this out, with the following data within the bgp > update: > > Unknown BGP attribute 92 (flags: 234) > Hexdump start--- > DD 78 FF 71 > Hexdump end > This appeared to bite my Level3-connected bandwidth as well. Time

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Dave Temkin
George Bonser wrote: -Original Message- From: Jeff Wheeler [mailto:j...@inconcepts.biz] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 1:22 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Dave Temkin wrote: I do. And yes, they

RE: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread George Bonser
> -Original Message- > From: Jeff Wheeler [mailto:j...@inconcepts.biz] > Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 1:22 PM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style > > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Dave Temkin wrote: > > I do.  And yes, they are happy t

Re: BGP Attribute 92 ?

2010-12-16 Thread Rhys Rhaven
Getting back to networks... Saw our two BGP listening ports drop (Verizon and Qwest) at 2150UTC. Nortel SR1004. Isn't that nice. On 12/16/2010 04:57 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: Someone seems to have leaked this out, with the following data within the bgp update: Unknown BGP attribute 92 (flags:

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread mikea
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:13:21PM -0800, Matthew Petach wrote: > You may find that simply fewer content providers decide it's worth it to play > in that space, under those conditions, which results in fewer choices for the > consumer, and something closer to a monopoly on the available content >

Re: Facebook issue

2010-12-16 Thread Bret Clark
On 12/16/2010 06:07 PM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:34:38 -0800 (PST) "andrew.wallace" wrote: Anyone having issue with Facebook? Always have but that's just me. Comcast must have planned this so that we would flood the list with useless Facebook messages rath

Re: Facebook issue

2010-12-16 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:34:38 -0800 (PST) "andrew.wallace" wrote: > Anyone having issue with Facebook? Always have but that's just me. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/| and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082)(

BGP Attribute 92 ?

2010-12-16 Thread Jared Mauch
Someone seems to have leaked this out, with the following data within the bgp update: Unknown BGP attribute 92 (flags: 234) Hexdump start--- DD 78 FF 71 Hexdump end Not sure what prefix this was related to yet, but if you saw your BGP drop, it could be related to improper handling of this

Re: Facebook issue

2010-12-16 Thread Andrey Khomyakov
It must be to busy now running face recognition software all the faces on all the pictures they have. :) -- Andrey Khomyakov [khomyakov.and...@gmail.com]

Re: Facebook issue - SOLVED

2010-12-16 Thread Christopher
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Re: Facebook issue

2010-12-16 Thread Khurram Khan
Our NOC just got off the phone with L3 and they report a "IP issue" out of Philadelphia. No other details though. On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Ken Stox wrote: > On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 13:38 -0800, Michael Thomas wrote: > > On 12/16/2010 01:34 PM, andrew.wallace wrote: > > > Anyone having issu

Re: Facebook issue

2010-12-16 Thread Ken Stox
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 13:38 -0800, Michael Thomas wrote: > On 12/16/2010 01:34 PM, andrew.wallace wrote: > > Anyone having issue with Facebook? In related news, employers around the country enjoyed a peak of productivity this afternoon.

RE: Facebook issue

2010-12-16 Thread david raistrick
We detected it about 3:40 eastern, and they just announced it on the status page. "We are currently investigating sitewide issues that will affect Facebook Platform. We apologize for any inconvenience and will post here with updates." this should maybe be moved to outages@ though (depend

Re: Facebook issue

2010-12-16 Thread Michael Thomas
Somebody obviously backed out the change because it's back up again. Mashable has a blurb on it. Mike On 12/16/2010 01:39 PM, John van Oppen wrote: Yep...Seeing serious issues from our office here at AS11404, we are peered directly and all looks good at the IP layer but all of us who wante

Re: Facebook issue

2010-12-16 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Dec 16, 2010, at 4:39 PM, Andre Gironda wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:34 PM, andrew.wallace > wrote: >> Anyone having issue with Facebook? > > It's returning an empty set of html tags > > Working fine in Northern Virginia on Cox and Cogent. Regards Marshall

Re: Facebook issue

2010-12-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.12.16 16:34, andrew.wallace wrote: > Anyone having issue with Facebook? Back up now from Toronto. Steve

Re: Facebook issue

2010-12-16 Thread andrew.wallace
This is what I was seeing too. - Original Message - From:Andre Gironda To:"nanog@nanog.org" Cc:andrew.wallace Sent:Thursday, 16 December 2010, 21:39:24 Subject:Re: Facebook issue It's returning an empty set of html tags

Re: Facebook issue

2010-12-16 Thread Ben Carleton
I am seeing the same thing here. Empty HTML tags... (sorry for the top quote) Regards Ben From: "Andre Gironda" Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 4:39 PM To: "nanog@nanog.org" Subject: Re: Facebook issue On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:34 PM, andrew.wallac

Re: Facebook issue

2010-12-16 Thread daodennis
Can we just stop this till it comes back up or move to outages? --Original Message-- From: Andre Gironda To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Facebook issue Sent: Dec 16, 2010 13:39 On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:34 PM, andrew.wallace wrote: > Anyone having issue with Facebook? It's returning an

Re: Facebook issue

2010-12-16 Thread Khurram Khan
Ditto On Dec 16, 2010 2:39 PM, "Michael Thomas" wrote: On 12/16/2010 01:34 PM, andrew.wallace wrote: > > Anyone having issue with Facebook? > > Andrew > ... Yep. Mike

Re: Facebook issue

2010-12-16 Thread Ned Moran
up for me ... On 12/16/10 4:38 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: On 12/16/2010 01:34 PM, andrew.wallace wrote: Anyone having issue with Facebook? Andrew Yep. Mike

Re: Facebook issue

2010-12-16 Thread Martin Hepworth
+1 from the uk On Thursday, 16 December 2010, Michael Thomas wrote: > On 12/16/2010 01:34 PM, andrew.wallace wrote: > > Anyone having issue with Facebook? > > Andrew > > > > Yep. > > Mike > > -- -- Martin Hepworth Oxford, UK

Re: Facebook issue

2010-12-16 Thread christian koch
stop On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:34 PM, andrew.wallace < andrew.wall...@rocketmail.com> wrote: > Anyone having issue with Facebook? > > Andrew > > > > > >

Re: Facebook issue

2010-12-16 Thread Andrew Euell
Yup. Productivity just shot up I can feel it On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 4:34 PM, andrew.wallace wrote: > Anyone having issue with Facebook? > > Andrew > > > > > > -- Andrew Euell andyzweb [at] gmail [dot] com

RE: Facebook issue

2010-12-16 Thread John van Oppen
Yep...Seeing serious issues from our office here at AS11404, we are peered directly and all looks good at the IP layer but all of us who wanted to procrastinate here at the office are having trouble getting page loads to complete. Oddly, no noc tickets yet. John -Original Message

Re: Facebook issue

2010-12-16 Thread Robert Glover
Facebook Goes Down Amid Rollout of New Brand Pages - http://on.mash.to/f36qqA Sincerely, Bobby Glover Director of Information Services South Valley Internet On 12/16/2010 1:34 PM, andrew.wallace wrote: Anyone having issue with Facebook? Andrew

Re: Facebook issue

2010-12-16 Thread Andre Gironda
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:34 PM, andrew.wallace wrote: > Anyone having issue with Facebook? It's returning an empty set of html tags

Re: Facebook issue

2010-12-16 Thread Michael Thomas
On 12/16/2010 01:34 PM, andrew.wallace wrote: Anyone having issue with Facebook? Andrew Yep. Mike

Facebook issue

2010-12-16 Thread andrew.wallace
Anyone having issue with Facebook? Andrew

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Dave Temkin wrote: > I do.  And yes, they are happy to "fuck with a billion dollar a month > revenue stream" (that happens to be low margin) in order to set a precedent > so that when traffic is 60Tbit instead of 6Tbit, across the *same* customer We disagree on th

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Jack Bates
On 12/16/2010 2:13 PM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 02:48:56PM -0500, Randy Epstein wrote: I was in the IRC channel at the time and saw it. It's real. I don't support the posting of IRC logs, but can't control that either. I saw it too. I don't support posting of IRC

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 02:13:47PM -0600, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > Seriously guys, this is an operator forum and you're running a congested > network, to expect that people are not going to comment on those facts > just because you've put money into NANOG sponsorship is absurd. Forgot to a

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 09:47 -1000, Paul Graydon wrote: > (...) All we're ending up with is what is mostly hearsay being treated as > facts. One consumer organization in France during the ongoing debate with regulators on network neutrality called for network operator to publish some verifiable in

Re: peering, derivatives, and big brother

2010-12-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.12.13 16:28, Dorn Hetzel wrote: > Yeah, well, sorta. sorta not so much :) LOL. Mark-to-market... facilitating the booking of revenue to make it *appear* as though a business unit has a successful product. Steve

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 02:48:56PM -0500, Randy Epstein wrote: > > I was in the IRC channel at the time and saw it. It's real. > > I don't support the posting of IRC logs, but can't control that either. I saw it too. I don't support posting of IRC logs trying to get people "in trouble" (though

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Matthew Petach
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:40 PM, George Bonser wrote: >> From: JC Dill >> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 10:20 PM >> To: NANOG list >> Subject: Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style >> >> >>   On 15/12/10 10:05 PM, George Bonser wrote: >> > >> > If the customer pays the cost of the t

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Jared Mauch
On Dec 16, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: > The idea of buying colocation from a last-mile ISP to reduce that last-mile > ISP's costs seems (at first glance) to be a hysterically unfair proposition - > though it seems that incumbent ISPs may have great enough leverage to extract > t

RE: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Randy Epstein
>> Earlier this morning a Comcast peering manager had the following things to say about the recent NANOG thread, in a public IRC channel with many witnesses: (snip) >With all due respect, logs or GTFO. I can find no mention of this outside of your email. >I would expect there to be quite a few men

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Paul Graydon
On 12/16/2010 09:38 AM, Daniel Seagraves wrote: On Dec 16, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Backdoor Parrot wrote: Earlier this morning a Comcast peering manager had the following things to say about the recent NANOG thread, in a public IRC channel with many witnesses: (snip) With all due respect, logs or

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Chip Marshall
On 16-Dec-2010, Paul Stewart sent: > Pardon my ignorance here but what does Comcast do for the NANOG > community? I know they attend many conferences and share their > experiences with a lot of us which is very much appreciated... > > Just asking ;) http://nanog.org/meetings/nanog46/ -- Chip M

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Owen DeLong
On Dec 16, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Dave Temkin wrote: > Jeff Wheeler wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Dave Temkin wrote: >> >>> I disagree. Even at $1/Mbit and 6Tbit of traffic (they do more), that's >>> still $72M/year in revenue that they weren't recognizing before. Given that >>> th

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Daniel Seagraves
On Dec 16, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Backdoor Parrot wrote: > Earlier this morning a Comcast peering manager had the following things to > say about the recent NANOG thread, in a public IRC channel with many > witnesses: (snip) With all due respect, logs or GTFO. I can find no mention of this outside

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Cutler James R
That seems to be "Off Topic". The operational implications for most of us is, most likely, much more technical bookkeeping and data storage. On Dec 16, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: > > What is in the best interests of the customer? > > Nathan James R. Cutler james.cut...@consult

RE: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
> All that said, the whole issue of 'local content' is going to continue to > rage on > for years to come. Getting the content closer to the end user is going to be > a > key to reducing costs for the long-tail providers to homes and businesses. > Should it be incumbent on the CDNs to pay for co

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Dec 16, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: > > On Dec 16, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Paul Stewart wrote: > >> Pardon my ignorance here but what does Comcast do for the NANOG community? >> I know they attend many conferences and share their experiences with a lot >> of us which is very much apprecia

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Jared Mauch
On Dec 16, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Paul Stewart wrote: > Pardon my ignorance here but what does Comcast do for the NANOG community? > I know they attend many conferences and share their experiences with a lot > of us which is very much appreciated... I'm sure the concern is that Comcast signed up to r

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Dave Temkin
Jeff Wheeler wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Dave Temkin wrote: I disagree. Even at $1/Mbit and 6Tbit of traffic (they do more), that's still $72M/year in revenue that they weren't recognizing before. Given that that traffic was actually *costing* them money to absorb before, turn

RE: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Paul Stewart
Pardon my ignorance here but what does Comcast do for the NANOG community? I know they attend many conferences and share their experiences with a lot of us which is very much appreciated... Just asking ;) -Original Message- From: Backdoor Parrot [mailto:backdoorpar...@hotmail.com] Sent:

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Joe Greco
> the demands to disclose confidential data on the blog aren't helping either It's always interesting how things like bandwidth displays are considered "confidential data" particularly when they show something bad. The best service providers will actually provide the statistics without being ask

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Brent Jones
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Backdoor Parrot wrote: > > > Earlier this morning a Comcast peering manager had the following things to > say about the recent NANOG thread, in a public IRC channel with many > witnesses: > > my management is pretty disgusted with the badmouthing and accusation

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Dave Temkin wrote: > I disagree.  Even at $1/Mbit and 6Tbit of traffic (they do more), that's > still $72M/year in revenue that they weren't recognizing before.  Given that > that traffic was actually *costing* them money to absorb before, turning the > balance an

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Backdoor Parrot
Earlier this morning a Comcast peering manager had the following things to say about the recent NANOG thread, in a public IRC channel with many witnesses: my management is pretty disgusted with the badmouthing and accusation slinging on nanog.org btw the demands to disclose confidential data o

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Mikel Waxler
If Comcast is charging providers to carry bits, how long until Verizon does the same? it becomes an "everyone else is getting paid" situation. I think it is better for the the content providers to be financially responsible for efficiency of transmission, which only happens when they (not the cons

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread JC Dill
On 16/12/10 8:52 AM, Jack Bates wrote: On 12/16/2010 9:17 AM, Mikel Waxler wrote: Comcast can now charge its customers only for upkeep of its network and use the income they get as an "end point delivery network" to offset customer cost. Comcast's cost, which are upkeep and expansion of its p

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Dave Temkin
Jeff Wheeler wrote: 1) Comcast believes they can exact a great deal of revenue from content networks. For this to be comparable to their captive customers, per-megabit rates must be reminiscent of pre-Level3 days, when $30/Mb was a bargain. This would spell bad news for Netflix. Of course, si

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Jack Bates
On 12/16/2010 7:47 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:05:26 CST, Jack Bates said: request financing? ie, Comcast could run lower rates and offer better service by charging the content provider, while competitive eyeball networks won't get the option to receive compensatio

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread dooser
It would certainly serve to make customers angry. They have a choice of video provider netflix vs hulu, but only one isp. In this case the customer drops netflix in an angry huff and goes to hulu. That customer is gone forever. --Original Message-- From: Patrick Giagnocavo To: nanog@na

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Jack Bates
On 12/16/2010 9:17 AM, Mikel Waxler wrote: Comcast can now charge its customers only for upkeep of its network and use the income they get as an "end point delivery network" to offset customer cost. Comcast's cost, which are upkeep and expansion of its physical network, now scale proportionally w

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, December 16, 2010 11:20:23 am Justin M. Streiner wrote: > Personally, I'd like to see any provider (content or otherwise) tell > Comcast (as things stand today) to pound sand when asked to enter into > such a 'paid peering' arrangement with them. It comes down to the business deci

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread JC Dill
On 16/12/10 8:17 AM, William Allen Simpson wrote: On 12/16/10 9:51 AM, Craig L Uebringer wrote: Funny thing about competition is that there are losers as well as winners. DSL competition didn't lose by regulation, it lost (nationally) by cheaper, more elastic bandwidth available on other med

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, JC Dill wrote: Sure, Comcast's customers are also paying Comcast. But Comcast wants to get paid from the content provider. I think they are betting that in the long run it's easier to make money from content providers (and have the content providers charge customers or a

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 12/16/10 9:51 AM, Craig L Uebringer wrote: Funny thing about competition is that there are losers as well as winners. DSL competition didn't lose by regulation, it lost (nationally) by cheaper, more elastic bandwidth available on other media and JC's previously-noted fickle and lazy consumer

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, December 16, 2010 11:05:02 am Patrick Giagnocavo wrote: > Surely serving a "bumper" video at the beginning - "Comcast is trying to > charge you more for Netflix - see http://www.netflix.com/comcastripoff/"; > - would be enough? Yeah, that's the sort of thing I had in mind. Could be o

RE: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Randy Epstein
> How well did the lawsuits against Microsoft's monopoly work to reduce > their ability to use their monopoly to manipulate the market? > > jc Why don't you ask the folks over at The Technical Committee (http://www.thetc.org), since they monitor Microsoft compliancy for the DOJ. Randy

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
On 12/16/2010 10:54 AM, Mikel Waxler wrote: > But in that scheme, Comcast looses in the long run, when the FCC gets around > to them, but Netflix looses customers immediately. > > " I pay Netflix 10$ a month and they wont let me use their service cause I > am on Comcast? I am taking my money to Hu

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread JC Dill
On 16/12/10 7:55 AM, Mikel Waxler wrote: If ponies are being handed out, count me in. Sure, market forces can do lots of strange things, for example, see our current position. Pretty much any scheme breaks terribly when there is a monopoly, How well did the lawsuits against Microsoft's mon

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Mikel Waxler
If ponies are being handed out, count me in. Sure, market forces can do lots of strange things, for example, see our current position. Pretty much any scheme breaks terribly when there is a monopoly, since the only company involved gets to remove the relationship between cost and profit. On Thu,

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Mikel Waxler
But in that scheme, Comcast looses in the long run, when the FCC gets around to them, but Netflix looses customers immediately. " I pay Netflix 10$ a month and they wont let me use their service cause I am on Comcast? I am taking my money to Hulu!" Sure netflix is "right" but by the time it matte

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, December 15, 2010 05:47:09 pm Adam Rothschild wrote: > What we have here is Comcast holding its users captive, plain and > simple. They have established an ecosystem where, to reach them, one > must pay to play, otherwise there's a good chance that packets are > discarded. [snip] >

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread JC Dill
On 16/12/10 7:17 AM, Mikel Waxler wrote: I disagree with this theory. If customers pay comcast for bytes then eventually the upstream (L3) will want some of that revenue. And I want a pony. What the upstream "wants" and what market forces will decide could be very different. And as custom

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Mikel Waxler
I disagree with this theory. If customers pay comcast for bytes then eventually the upstream (L3) will want some of that revenue. That revenue will be passed onto the provider as a lower bill. This encourages Netflix to send more bytes, because if they do Comcast and L3 get paid more and Netflix'

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Jared Mauch
On Dec 16, 2010, at 9:51 AM, Craig L Uebringer wrote: > > This is why I suggested it might take regulatory action, or changes in state > laws. > > Also engage locality first, as Jared indicates. The problem in going to the > fed is that power > will be skewed to the larger entities. Competiti

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Craig L Uebringer
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: > > On Dec 16, 2010, at 1:16 AM, JC Dill wrote: > > > On 15/12/10 9:29 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > >> > >> The underlying problem, of course, is lack of usable last-mile > competition; > > > > I agree. > > It exists where there is an ROI on invest

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:05:26 CST, Jack Bates said: > request financing? ie, Comcast could run lower rates and offer better > service by charging the content provider, while competitive eyeball > networks won't get the option to receive compensation from content > providers and have to charge ap

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Jared Mauch
On Dec 16, 2010, at 1:16 AM, JC Dill wrote: > On 15/12/10 9:29 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: >> >> The underlying problem, of course, is lack of usable last-mile competition; > > I agree. > >> see also my running rant about Verizon-inspired state laws *forbidding* >> municipalities to charter monopo

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread JC Dill
On 15/12/10 10:40 PM, George Bonser wrote: From: JC Dill Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 10:20 PM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style On 15/12/10 10:05 PM, George Bonser wrote: If the customer pays the cost of the transport, a provider with better tr