At 8/3/2010 06:24 PM, Jack Unger wrote:
Why would customers installing file servers cause you a problem if
you limited their throughput to the Terms and Conditions of their
contract where you would specify the amount of bandwidth that you
were supplying them and limiting them to?
You could limit throughput "neutrally", provided that it limited
upstream file service and interactive applications like gaming and
telephony equally. That's basically what Comcast consented to
do. However, those applications usually require a person to be
there; content distribution runs 7x24. Their ToS (I'm a customer)
prohibited file and web servers; the FCC found that unreasonable.
I do believe that if someone had complained about such activities on
Verizon's or ATT's part, the K-Mart FCC would have found it perfectly
desirable.
Fred Goldstein wrote:
At 8/3/2010 04:58 PM, Mike Hammett wrote:
That's what I don't understand... some people are so for Net
Neutrality, but every unhappy incumbent customer is a potential sale.
I've long opposed "network neutrality" rules on grounds that it
could put most WISPs out of business. You'd be forced to live by
the same rules that the urban ILECs and CATVs do, even though your
cost of both last-mile capacity and middle mile (if rural) is much
higher. Thus you'd be required to allow customers to install file
servers at their subscriber locations, even though it's much
cheaper (overall) to have them at a fiber backbone site. Recall
that Vuze, who made the big stink, is a pR0n distributor using
subscriber-site file servers and home-user computers to undercut
other CDNs on price.
I think Verizon actually favors such rules, on grounds that FiOS is
hurt less than most others, including cable, and they'd be happy to
see WISPs go away. (When I see them opposing it, I think of Bre'r
Rabbit and the brier patch.)
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