Business stay in business by keeping a majority of their customers happy.
That means netflix and streaming services will thrive under repeal, Tor and porn sites will suffer.
Time to look forward to 5G and beyond, tech that will make cable Internet look like AOL and Compuserve.
i had this thought a while ago. and yes, i saw the speed bump — in speedtest sites, anyway. (note - not only my ISP’s speed test, but everything was really hit and miss, difficult to see repeatable results anywhere.) my nic claimed things were about like normal, though (long upload @ 1.5MBps).
You all do realize we are just going back to pre-2015 internet.
FTC still has regulations in place, and if someone does something jacked, antitrust laws are a thing.
it may help them in the short term, but it also takes power from the FCC, the government agency that killed radio with over regulation and draconian regulations on encryption. I’m for net neutrality, but that wasn’t what this was, giving back to the FTC allows for less strict regulation and may very well allow for better legislation in the future… Apart from the FCC
Yup. Comcast throttling Netflix until they paid extortion money. Comcast fucking with torrents, even though people were well within their monthly bandwidth allotment. Having to shame Comcast into getting better than DOCSIS 1.1 modems and speeds in 2008.
That’s why we enstated NN, we had other bills in the works that just got overshadowed,
we may see them actually pass considering the FCC isn’t holding us by the balls.
I didn’t say it was just going to be instantly fixed, not to be a jerk or anything, but i think you missed the point of what i said…
No, I didn’t. It’s yet another in a series of attempts to make us feel better about the death of Net Neutrality. This one is a shadier one that gives us false hope that something better will just happen along now that Net Neutrality is out of the way.
Spoiler alert: It’s not coming.
Anti-trust laws are still a thing, and they are a thing that can often take months to resolve. Hopefully you didn’t want to watch Netflix, or use Vonage for the next several months while a judge who doesn’t know technology from a can of paint decides whether or not Vonage’s VOIP service is the same thing as your ISP’s telephony service.
I just said, that NN and what we had were both bad for the internet in general
you can’t make an omlet without cracking a few eggs.
It may never come, though i don’t think it’s going to be as bad as you think.
Once this starts affecting the nation at large, the courts will probably see our side.
Growing pains, did you really think NN would stay around forever? It’s way to restrictive, ISPs hate it,
there is a middle ground somewhere, I think we have a better chance of finding it now than we have for
the past two years.
Yeah I have used plenty of others I have never seen and odity like the upload before.
Must be a glitch on their end. My upload is 10Mbps most I think I have seen it spike to 15Mbps.
Usually that happens when the bandwidth limiter is though software and not hardware.
Happened occasionally where I used to work, where all of a sudden people would get a symmetric connection and then had to dial them back to their rate.
The best way to test speed of your connection is to download/upload a real file that is very large. For example a game from Steam or run a torrent with lot of seeds and leeches. That will give you more accurate info.
sorry sep but from where i am sitting phi is a nutter as well as most of the rest of the FCC board. if it was me ISP’s would be running for Washington to stop me from enforcing things that should be enforced. and i would fine the ever living hell out of ISP’s that are so damn large but cant seem to get there infrastructure right even when we have payed for it.
from where i am sitting the middle ground is keep your hands off my data. stop messing with network traffic and my data. and keep your eyes off my packets. and finally deliver the network infrastructure that we have payed for. and if ISP hate the idea that they can pass the data through and not look then well by George they can hate it and still pass it along because stop snooping on my data.