Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-10 Thread Kelly Setzer
Many other organizations who were innovating will be affected by the new rules. Many of those organizations are very small and cannot afford the army of lawyers that Verizon can. Judgements as to whether Net Neutrality helps or harms any specific industry will be inevitably guided by politics.

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-10 Thread Owen DeLong
On Mar 10, 2015, at 06:21 , Kelly Setzer kelly.set...@wnco.com wrote: Many other organizations who were innovating will be affected by the new rules. Many of those organizations are very small and cannot afford the army of lawyers that Verizon can. Such as? Can you provide any actual

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-10 Thread Scott Helms
Barry, First, I want to apologize. I (badly) misread your email, but in case I should not have responded that way. I would have gotten this out sooner, but I was traveling back from the CableLabs conference. Second, my assertion is simply that Usenet servers aren't automagically symmetrical

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-09 Thread list_nanog
They want to bang on about the ruling harming innovation and competition. My response: Well, you were neither innovating nor competing as is, so no harm done.

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-03 Thread Tim Franklin
I meant that on the Internet as a whole it is unusual for such speeds to actually be realized in practice due to various issues. 8-10Mb/s seems to be what one can expect without going to distributed protocols. Really? I have 2 x VDSL (40/10) to my house, running MLPPP. I can get a

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-03 Thread Colin Johnston
fttc in uk works great for client code push remote installs , even faster than some offices since the fibre nodes are less contended. seen 18mb up work fine and sustained with voip in parallel as well colin Sent from my iPhone On 3 Mar 2015, at 16:20, Tim Franklin t...@pelican.org wrote: I

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-03 Thread Barry Shein
Ok, then I no longer have any confidence that I understand what you were asserting. From: Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com Odd how the graphing for the top 1000 Usenet servers showed exactly the pattern I predicted. On Mar 2, 2015 3:46 PM, Barry Shein b...@world.std.com wrote: Anything based

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-03 Thread Scott Helms
/em shrug I can't help it if you don't like real world data. On Mar 3, 2015 2:25 PM, Barry Shein b...@world.std.com wrote: Ok, then I no longer have any confidence that I understand what you were asserting. From: Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com Odd how the graphing for the top 1000 Usenet

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-03 Thread Barry Shein
From: Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com /em shrug I can't help it if you don't like real world data. On Mar 3, 2015 2:25 PM, Barry Shein b...@world.std.com wrote: Ok, then I no longer have any confidence that I understand what you were asserting. Generally when someone says they don't

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
Barry Shein wrote: Anything based on NNTP would be extremely asymmetric without significant changes to the protocol or human behavior. We ran significant Usenet servers with binaries for nearly 20 years and without for another 5 and the servers' traffic was heavily asymmetric.

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Barry Shein
On March 1, 2015 at 16:13 n...@foobar.org (Nick Hilliard) wrote: On 01/03/2015 03:41, Barry Shein wrote: On February 28, 2015 at 23:20 n...@foobar.org (Nick Hilliard) wrote: there were several reasons for asymmetric services, one of which was commercial. Another was that most

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Barry Shein
That's fine and very practical and understandable. But it's no reason for the net not to keep marching forward at its own pace which I think is more what's being discussed. I'm pretty sure that prior to 2007 (year of the first iphone launch) not many people were clamoring for full, graphical

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Barry Shein
Anything based on NNTP would be extremely asymmetric without significant changes to the protocol or human behavior. We ran significant Usenet servers with binaries for nearly 20 years and without for another 5 and the servers' traffic was heavily asymmetric. On Mar 1, 2015 9:11 AM,

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Scott Helms
Odd how the graphing for the top 1000 Usenet servers showed exactly the pattern I predicted. On Mar 2, 2015 3:46 PM, Barry Shein b...@world.std.com wrote: Anything based on NNTP would be extremely asymmetric without significant changes to the protocol or human behavior. We ran

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Daniel Taylor
Personally? If the price were the same, I'd go with 50/50. That way my uploads would take even less time. It isn't about the averaged total, it's about how long each event takes, and backing up 4GB of files off-site shouldn't have to take an hour. On 02/27/2015 03:11 PM, Scott Helms wrote:

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Scott Helms
Daniel, The sold speeds are all actually less than the actual speeds. The PON customers are slightly over provisioned and the DOCSIS customers are over provisioned a bit more. On Mar 2, 2015 10:01 AM, Daniel Taylor dtay...@vocalabs.com wrote: What do those 25 and 50Mb/s download rates amount to

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 03/02/2015 06:22 AM, Daniel Taylor wrote: I'm clearly not a normal user, or I wouldn't be here. Normal users have never experienced high-speed symmetrical service. People don't miss what they have never had. I would agree with that statement in a slightly modified form: People don't miss

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Scott Helms
Daniel, For the third or fourth time in this discussion we are tracking and customer satisfaction for users who do have symmetrical bandwidth 24 mbps and have for a number of years. We see customer usage patterns and satisfaction being statically the same on 25/25 and 25/8 accounts. The same is

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Scott Helms
That's not the norm for consumers, but the important thing to understand is that for most of the technologies we use for broadband there simply is less upstream capacity than downstream. That upstream scarcity means that for DSL, DOCSIS, PON, WiFi, and LTE delivering symmetrical upstream

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Daniel Taylor
I'm clearly not a normal user, or I wouldn't be here. Normal users have never experienced high-speed symmetrical service. People don't miss what they have never had. On 03/02/2015 08:09 AM, Scott Helms wrote: That's not the norm for consumers, but the important thing to understand is that

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Daniel Taylor
On 02/27/2015 04:49 PM, Naslund, Steve wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com wrote: My point is that the option should be there, at the consumer level. Why? What's magical about symmetry? Is a customer better served by having a 5mbps/5mbps over a 25mbps/5mbps?

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Daniel Taylor
What do those 25 and 50Mb/s download rates amount to in practice? Statistically speaking, those might *be* symmetric. On 03/02/2015 08:41 AM, Scott Helms wrote: Daniel, For the third or fourth time in this discussion we are tracking and customer satisfaction for users who do have symmetrical

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Daniel Taylor
My apologies for the implication. I meant that on the Internet as a whole it is unusual for such speeds to actually be realized in practice due to various issues. 8-10Mb/s seems to be what one can expect without going to distributed protocols. On 03/02/2015 09:06 AM, Scott Helms wrote:

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Mike Hammett
. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: Aled Morris al...@qix.co.uk To: Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com Cc: NANOG nanog@nanog.org Sent: Monday, March 2, 2015 9:17:33 AM Subject: Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Scott Helms
That's certainly true and why we watch the trends of usage very closely and we project those terms into the future knowing that's imperfect. What we won't do is build networks based purely on guesses. We certainly see demand for upstream capacity increasing for residential customers, but that

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Aled Morris
On 2 March 2015 at 14:41, Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com wrote: We see customer usage patterns and satisfaction being statically the same on 25/25 and 25/8 accounts. The same is true when we look at 50/50 versus 50/12 accounts. perhaps because there are no widely-deployed applications that

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Rogers, Josh
...@world.std.com Cc: NANOG nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Message-ID: 32d3c16d-0f4d-45ba-99f8-d41fe23d4...@mnsi.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Yes, so when cable modems were introduced to the network, they had to be designed to work

RE: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Naslund, Steve
Can we stop the disingenuity? Asymmetric service was introduced to discourage home users from deploying commercial services. As were bandwidth caps. One can argue all sorts of other benefits of this but when this started that was the problem on the table: How do we forcibly distinguish

RE: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Naslund, Steve
I was an ISP in the 1990s and our first DSL offerings were SDSL symmetric services to replace more expensive T-1 circuits. When we got into residential it was with SDSL and then the consumers wanted more downstream so ADSL was invented. I was there, I know this. So

RE: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Naslund, Steve
Average != Peak. What is peak? There is a question for you. If we get all the way down to the fundamentals of any network, peak is always 100%. There is either a bit on the wire or not. Your network is either 100% busy or 100% idle at any instantaneous moment in time. What matters is

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Michael Thomas
On 03/02/2015 09:20 AM, Naslund, Steve wrote: Average != Peak. What is peak? There is a question for you. If we get all the way down to the fundamentals of any network, peak is always 100%. There is either a bit on the wire or not. Your network is either 100% busy or 100% idle at any

RE: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Naslund, Steve
It is likely not to change when people don't have the available upload to begin with. This is compounded by the queue problems on end devices. How many more people would stream to twitch or youtube or skype if they didn't have to hear this, Are you uploading? You're slowing down the download!

RE: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Naslund, Steve
::AWG:: Strawman Alert! Nobody's talking about taking poor Erlang behind the barn and shooting him. We're talking about being able to send upstream at a reasonable/comparable rate as downstream. Mike Exactly, now you see the dilemma. What is reasonable/comparable? Is it

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Stephen Sprunk
On 28-Feb-15 21:55, Barry Shein wrote: On February 28, 2015 at 17:20 na...@ics-il.net (Mike Hammett) wrote: As I said earlier, there are only so many channels available. Channels added to upload are taken away from download. People use upload so infrequently it would be gross negligence on the

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
Naslund, Steve wrote: Average != Peak. What is peak? There is a question for you. If we get all the way down to the fundamentals of any network, peak is always 100%. There is either a bit on the wire or not. Your network is either 100% busy or 100% idle at any instantaneous moment in

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 03/02/2015 09:33 AM, Naslund, Steve wrote: A. Me - Hey genius, why don't you download a movie about networks because my upload does not affect your streaming movie download except for the insignificant amount of control traffic in the opposite direction. Unless there is significant

RE: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Naslund, Steve
Unless there is significant stupidly-done bufferbloat, where the insignificant amount of control traffic in the opposite direction is delayed because the big blocks of the upload are causing a traffic jam in the upstream pipe. Which has nothing at all to do with the asymmetry of the circuit

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread manning bill
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Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread joel jaeggli
On 3/1/15 1:26 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: It was the combination of asymmetric, no or few IPs (and NAT), and bandwidth caps. let's not rewrite history here: IPv4 address scarcity has been a thing since the very early 1990s. Otherwise why would cidr have been created? CIDR had nothing to do

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread John Levine
In article 54f32f1a.9090...@meetinghouse.net you write: Scott, Asymmetric measured where? Between client and server or between servers? I'm thinking the case where we each have a server running locally - how do you get a high level of asymmetry in a P2P environment? There's always a lot more

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Owen DeLong
It was the combination of asymmetric, no or few IPs (and NAT), and bandwidth caps. let's not rewrite history here: IPv4 address scarcity has been a thing since the very early 1990s. Otherwise why would cidr have been created? CIDR had nothing to do with address scarcity. CIDR was invented

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 02/28/2015 07:55 PM, Barry Shein wrote: And given lousy upload speeds the opportunities to develop for example backup services in a world of terabyte disks is limited. At 1mb/s it takes approx 100,000 seconds to upload 1TB, that's roughly one week, blue sky. If that terabyte drive holds

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Joe Greco
On 02/28/2015 07:55 PM, Barry Shein wrote: And given lousy upload speeds the opportunities to develop for example backup services in a world of terabyte disks is limited. At 1mb/s it takes approx 100,000 seconds to upload 1TB, that's roughly one week, blue sky. If that terabyte drive

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Aled Morris
On 1 March 2015 at 03:41, Barry Shein b...@world.std.com wrote: Previously all residential service (e.g., dial-up, ISDN) was symmetrical. The rot set in with V.90 56k modems - they were asymmetric - only the downstream was 56k. The only way to achieve this in the analogue realm was by

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Måns Nilsson
Subject: Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Date: Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 05:25:41PM -0600 Quoting Jack Bates (jba...@paradoxnetworks.net): On 2/27/2015 5:09 PM, Måns Nilsson wrote: What people want, at least once thay have tasted it, is optical last mile. And not that PON shit

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Clayton Zekelman
Yes, so when cable modems were introduced to the network, they had to be designed to work on the EXISTING infrastructure which was designed to deliver cable TV. It's not some conspiracy to differentiate higher priced business services - it was a fact of RF technology and the architecture of the

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Aled Morris wrote: Sadly we don't have many killer applications for symmetric residential bandwidth, but that's likely because we don't have the infrastructure to incubate these applications. Come to think of it, if USENET software wasn't so cumbersome, I kind of wonder if today's social

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread joel jaeggli
On 3/1/15 7:24 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Scott, Asymmetric measured where? Between client and server or between servers? I'm thinking the case where we each have a server running locally - how do you get a high level of asymmetry in a P2P environment? The most densly connected relays by

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hey Barry - you ran some rather huge NNTP servers, back in the day, you have any comments on this? Scott Helms wrote: Miles, Usenet was normally asymmetrical between servers, even when server operators try to seed equally as being fed. It's a function of how a few servers are the source

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Michael Thomas
On 02/28/2015 06:15 PM, Scott Helms wrote: Michael, You should really learn how DOCSIS systems work. What you're trying to claim it's not only untrue it is that way for very real technical reasons. I'm well aware. I was there. Mike On Feb 28, 2015 6:27 PM, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Michael Thomas
@nanog.org mailto:nanog@nanog.org Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 5:14:18 PM Subject: Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality You do of course realize that the asymmetry

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Michael Thomas
On 03/01/2015 08:19 AM, Scott Helms wrote: Michael, Then you understand that having the upstreams and downstreams use the same frequencies, especially in a flexible manner, would require completely redesigning every diplex filter, amplifier, fiber node, and tap filters in the plant. At

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Scott Helms
Anything based on NNTP would be extremely asymmetric without significant changes to the protocol or human behavior. We ran significant Usenet servers with binaries for nearly 20 years and without for another 5 and the servers' traffic was heavily asymmetric. On Mar 1, 2015 9:11 AM, Miles Fidelman

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Scott, Asymmetric measured where? Between client and server or between servers? I'm thinking the case where we each have a server running locally - how do you get a high level of asymmetry in a P2P environment? Miles Fidelman Scott Helms wrote: Anything based on NNTP would be

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 01/03/2015 03:41, Barry Shein wrote: On February 28, 2015 at 23:20 n...@foobar.org (Nick Hilliard) wrote: there were several reasons for asymmetric services, one of which was commercial. Another was that most users' bandwidth profiles were massively asymmetric to start with so it

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Scott Helms
Miles, Usenet was normally asymmetrical between servers, even when server operators try to seed equally as being fed. It's a function of how a few servers are the source original content and how long individual servers choose (and have the disk) to keep specific content. It was never designed

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Michael Thomas
...@world.std.com Cc: NANOG nanog@nanog.org mailto:nanog@nanog.org Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 5:14:18 PM Subject: Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality You do of course realize that the asymmetry in CATV forward path/return path

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Scott Helms
Policy Statement on Net Neutrality You do of course realize that the asymmetry in CATV forward path/return path existed LONG before residential Internet access over cable networks exited? Sent from my iPhone On Feb 28, 2015, at 5:38 PM, Barry Shein b...@world.std.com wrote: Can we stop

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Michael Thomas
On 03/01/2015 05:08 AM, Clayton Zekelman wrote: Yes, so when cable modems were introduced to the network, they had to be designed to work on the EXISTING infrastructure which was designed to deliver cable TV. It's not some conspiracy to differentiate higher priced business services - it was a

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Michael Thomas
b...@world.std.com mailto:b...@world.std.com Cc: NANOG nanog@nanog.org mailto:nanog@nanog.org Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 5:14:18 PM Subject: Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality You do of course

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Scott Helms
Michael, Then you understand that having the upstreams and downstreams use the same frequencies, especially in a flexible manner, would require completely redesigning every diplex filter, amplifier, fiber node, and tap filters in the plant. At the same time we'd have to replace all of the

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Scott Helms
- From: Clayton Zekelman clay...@mnsi.net To: Barry Shein b...@world.std.com Cc: NANOG nanog@nanog.org Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 5:14:18 PM Subject: Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality You do of course realize that the asymmetry in CATV forward path/return path existed

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Jack Bates
On 3/1/2015 10:01 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: They didn't want to give channels for internet bandwidth either. Life would have been *far* more simple had the MSO's not *forced* the hardware designer to use their crappy noisy back channel, such as it was. The move from analog -- which was

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Dave Taht
I am not normally, willingly, on nanog. My emailbox is full enough. I am responding, mostly, to a post I saw last night, where the author complained about the horrid performance he got when attempting a simultaneous up and download on a X/512k upload DSL link. That is so totally fixable now, at

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Mark Tinka
On 28/Feb/15 10:51, Owen DeLong wrote: Competition? What competition? I realize you’re not in the US,... Yes, I know competition in the U.S. is not where it ought to be :-). My comment was more global, as we all use the same technologies around the world, even though you do get varying levels

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 27, 2015, at 22:23 , Mark Tinka mark.ti...@seacom.mu wrote: On 28/Feb/15 07:48, Owen DeLong wrote: No, I’m not assuming anything other than that you claimed the video chat justified a need for symmetry when in reality, it does not. I’m all for better upstream bandwidth to the

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 28, 2015, at 01:22 , Mark Tinka mark.ti...@seacom.mu wrote: On 28/Feb/15 10:51, Owen DeLong wrote: Competition? What competition? I realize you’re not in the US,... Yes, I know competition in the U.S. is not where it ought to be :-). My comment was more global, as we all use

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Mark Tinka
On 28/Feb/15 11:29, Owen DeLong wrote: This is where I disagree with you. Look at it this way… I bet even you consume far more content than you produce. Everyone does. It is the nature of any one to many relationship. You are assuming that I am the one, personally, producing that content.

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
Michael Thomas wrote: On 02/27/2015 02:52 PM, Naslund, Steve wrote: What is that statement based on? I have not seen any outcry for more symmetric speeds. Asymmetry in our networks causes a lot of engineering issues and if it were up to the carriers, we would much rather have more

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Steve Clark
On 02/27/2015 04:11 PM, Scott Helms wrote: Daniel, 50MB/s might be tough to fill, but even at home I can get good use out of the odd 25MB/s upstream burst for a few minutes. Which would you choose, 50/50 or 75/25? My point is not that upstream speed isn't valuable, but merely that demand for

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Joe Greco
(replying to a few different points by different people): In general, I find my 30M/7M is not too terribly painful most of the = time. Do I wish I had more upstream? Yes, but not as much as I wish I = had more downstream. I think an ideal minimum that would probably be = comfortable most of

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread William Waites
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 23:24:17 +, Naslund, Steve snasl...@medline.com said: I was an ISP in the 1990s and our first DSL offerings were SDSL symmetric services to replace more expensive T-1 circuits. When we got into residential it was with SDSL and then the consumers

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Clayton Zekelman
You do of course realize that the asymmetry in CATV forward path/return path existed LONG before residential Internet access over cable networks exited? Sent from my iPhone On Feb 28, 2015, at 5:38 PM, Barry Shein b...@world.std.com wrote: Can we stop the disingenuity? Asymmetric

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Michael Thomas
On 02/28/2015 03:14 PM, Clayton Zekelman wrote: You do of course realize that the asymmetry in CATV forward path/return path existed LONG before residential Internet access over cable networks exited? The cable companies didn't want servers on residential customers either, and were animated

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Michael Thomas
on the provider's behalf. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: Clayton Zekelman clay...@mnsi.net To: Barry Shein b...@world.std.com Cc: NANOG nanog@nanog.org Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 5:14:18 PM Subject: Re: Verizon Policy

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Feb 28, 2015, at 4:37 PM, Jack Bates jba...@paradoxnetworks.net wrote: The question is, if YOU paid for the fiber to be run to their ped, would they hook you up? No. But that's because they are using the fibre pedestals to deliver a high bandwidth DSL service. The condo customers still

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Barry Shein
I'm always a little suspicious when this is all customers want is a cover for this is all customers will get. It's like the time I was tossed from a local all you can eat buffet (in the days of my admittedly huge appetite) the owner telling me yes, that is *ALL* you can eat, goodbye!

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/28/2015 4:38 PM, Barry Shein wrote: Can we stop the disingenuity? Asymmetric service was introduced to discourage home users from deploying commercial services. As were bandwidth caps. Hmm, at one point I was going to ask if anyone else remembered a long time ago ISPs having something in

RE: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Keith Medcalf
To: Lamar Owen Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality In the same way, I don't like the BASIS for this authority... and what it potentially means in the long term... besides what they state that they intend to do with this new authority they've appointed

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
It's not about that's all they need, that's all they want, etc. Whenever any vendor spouts this is what our customers want you know they are talking pure bullshit. The only customers who know what they want are the microscopic percentage who know what's actually possible, and we are dismissed

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On 02/27/2015 04:49 PM, Stephen Satchell wrote: So did I. Also, do you recall that the FCC changed the definition of broadband to require 25 Mbps downstream? Does this mean that all these rules on broadband don't apply to people providing Internet access service on classic ADSL? The FCC

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Mike Hammett
: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Can we stop the disingenuity? Asymmetric service was introduced to discourage home users from deploying commercial services. As were bandwidth caps. One can argue all sorts of other benefits of this but when this started that was the problem

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Clayton Zekelman
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 5:14:18 PM Subject: Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality You do of course realize that the asymmetry in CATV forward path/return path existed LONG before residential Internet access over cable networks exited? Sent from my iPhone On Feb 28

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Owen DeLong Sent: Saturday, 28 February, 2015 14:02 To: Lamar Owen Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality In the same way, I don't like the BASIS for this authority... and what it potentially means in the long term... besides what

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/28/2015 6:17 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: Mind you, the truly annoying part of this story (for me) is knowing Telus has fibre pedestals not a block away, with enough bandwidth to serve up IPTV to all the condos in the neighbourhood. But I'm in the marina across the street. Since there are

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 28, 2015, at 11:29 , Rob McEwen r...@invaluement.com wrote: On 2/28/2015 1:48 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: The bigger picture is (a) HOW they got this authority--self-defining it in, and (b) the potential abuse and 4th amendment violations, not just today's foot in the door details! How

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Barry Shein
On February 27, 2015 at 14:50 khe...@zcorum.com (Scott Helms) wrote: I am absolutely not against good upstream rates! I do have a problem with people saying that we must/should have symmetrical connectivity simply because we don't see the market demand for that as of yet. It's

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Barry Shein
Can we stop the disingenuity? Asymmetric service was introduced to discourage home users from deploying commercial services. As were bandwidth caps. One can argue all sorts of other benefits of this but when this started that was the problem on the table: How do we forcibly distinguish

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Mike Hammett
- Original Message - From: Clayton Zekelman clay...@mnsi.net To: Barry Shein b...@world.std.com Cc: NANOG nanog@nanog.org Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 5:14:18 PM Subject: Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality You do of course realize that the asymmetry in CATV forward path

RE: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Keith Medcalf
and no one knows why. -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Rob McEwen Sent: Saturday, 28 February, 2015 12:30 To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality On 2/28/2015 1:48 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: The bigger picture

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 12:14 AM, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote: If they wanted to shape DOCSIS to have better upstream, all they had to say is JUMP to cablelabs and the vendors and it would have happened. Like DOCSIS 3.1? If I recall correctly, theoretical upstream up to 2.5gb/s.

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Owen DeLong
In the same way, I don't like the BASIS for this authority... and what it potentially means in the long term... besides what they state that they intend to do with this new authority they've appointed themselves in the short term. Had some people not apparently taken advantage of the

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Barry Shein
Back in the USENET days we advertised that we carried acccess to all USENET groups. One day a customer called asking to speak to me and said he'd like to complain, we did NOT carry all USENET groups. I said ok which don't we carry, mistakes are possible, I'll add them. He got cagey. I said

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Michael Thomas
On 02/28/2015 02:38 PM, Barry Shein wrote: Can we stop the disingenuity? Asymmetric service was introduced to discourage home users from deploying commercial services. As were bandwidth caps. Answer: Give them a lot less upload than download bandwidth. That's exactly how I remember why we

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 28/02/2015 22:38, Barry Shein wrote: Asymmetric service was introduced to discourage home users from deploying commercial services. there were several reasons for asymmetric services, one of which was commercial. Another was that most users' bandwidth profiles were massively asymmetric to

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Scott Helms
Steve, My point is that for lots and lots of people their uplink is not so low. Even when I look at users with 25/25 and 50/50, many of the have been at those rates for 3 years we don't see changes in traffic patterns nor satisfaction as compared to users at similar download rates but lower

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On 02/27/2015 02:14 PM, Jim Richardson wrote: From 47CFR§8.5b (b) A person engaged in the provision of mobile broadband Internet access service, insofar as such person is so engaged, shall not block consumers from accessing lawful Web sites, subject to reasonable network management; nor shall

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On 02/28/2015 02:29 PM, Rob McEwen wrote: For roughly two decades of having a widely-publicly-used Internet, nobody realized that they already had this authority... until suddenly just now... we were just too stupid to see the obvious all those years, right? Having authority and choosing to

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On 02/27/2015 02:58 PM, Rob McEwen wrote: On 2/27/2015 1:28 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: You really should read 47CFR§8. It won't take you more than an hour or so, as it's only about 8 pages. The bigger picture is (a) HOW they got this authority--self-defining it in, and (b) the potential abuse

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jack Bates wrote: On 2/28/2015 10:28 AM, Scott Helms wrote: Steve, My point is that for lots and lots of people their uplink is not so low. Even when I look at users with 25/25 and 50/50, many of the have been at those rates for 3 years we don't see changes in traffic patterns nor

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