Because no one actually pays for what the bandwidth actually costs.
No one out here would even consider paying the $250 per meg that I pay for
bandwidth.
So, I need to keep the right to refuse certain activities in order to have a
system that is both affordable to the masses and performs well.
marlon
----- Original Message -----
From: Jack Unger
To: WISPA General List
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] net neutrality, there may be hope yet...
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?
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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