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Verizon, for some reason, decided that it didn't like one of them
You're misreading the error message:
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According to writer Charlie Stross, Virgin Media may be dropping packets
if they detect a router on your network:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2008/04/brand_dilution.html
It appears highly likely that Virgin are probing the equipment you attach
to your cable modem and dropping
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This is of course in direct competition with ISP PPV movie offerings, but
unlike ISP-provided content, *will* count against the bandwidth caps and
limits determined by the ISPs themselves.
There is a lot of comparing apples-to-oranges in this statement.
For one
Yeah, I guess 25 HD movies (as your total usage for the month) wouldn't
look so great, especially when Comcast's own on-demand/PPV movie offerings
don't count against your Internet usage cap at all! Well, so much for outside
movie services providing HD. We don't need no stinkin'
It's a bad analogy. You aren't being charged for consuming bits, you
are being charged for transporting bits. The two are fundamentally
different.
john-
(Thanks to Aleks for this pointer)
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/05/06/crtc-usage-based-billing-internet.html?ref=rss
(it's amazing how many lists I'm on would be up in arms by all the top-posting
in these threads. Personally, I'm glad I don't have to wade through all the
old conversations)
Matt, your comparison to water/electric utilities is a straw man at best.
Utilities aren't flat-rate - if I don't use the
