Net Neutrality

 

1. Your right skipper!

   Posted by bulldog       06/18/2006  at  01:24 PM  



2. Shit, looks like your goverment could fuck up something faster than the French.

   Posted by bulldog       06/18/2006  at  01:32 PM  



3. I’m wondering if, rather than “signing up with another access provider, we need a complete second internet?  I don’t think the access provider has the power to restrict access other than speed and amount.
   
   Rgr Gore had nothing to do with it.  Schools were linking to each other before he knew “what is a computer”.
   
   As for getting more info about it, I’ll let that wait till the stink gets worse. 

   Posted by Officer Pupp       06/18/2006  at  03:08 PM  



4. Testing 1-2-3.

   Posted by The Skipper       06/18/2006  at  03:55 PM  



5. Skipper, I found this post quite educational—and THANK YOU for explaining.  And, yes, it’s a downright travesty and embarrassment that broadband in the U.S. is such a rip-off compared to other that available around the globe.  Gosh, is that the best you can do around St. Louis?  I’ve got 2.1Mbps ACTUAL here in N. IL via AT&T for $18/mo—and have been invited to double that for another $10/mo. It’s almost humorous how proud they seem to be in referring to the higher speed as “barely street legal”.  As you said, that’s a freaking snail’s pace compared to “foreign” systems.

   Posted by Happy_Retiree       06/18/2006  at  08:54 PM  



6. Skipper you’re in denial you know full well it was Al Gore that invented the Internet!

   I’m with you on this issue. Seems to me whenever the government sticks its nose in the system goes to ratshit. I am also surprised how expensive broadband is in the US considering it is much more free market oriented that Britain. In Britain we had the British Telecom monolith a former state run dinosaur dictating how much access cost. They shafted people for years on price but now it has become relatively competitive after they were forced to relinquish control of the exchanges. I pay around $28 a month for 2Mbs but am limited by the distance from the exchange. If I lived closer to town it would be faster, up to 8Mbps. I have friends in Missouri that would love broadband but they live out in the boondocks and it seems the telecos want an arm and a leg for broadband. So the poor buggers are stuck with dial up.

   Posted by LyndonB       06/19/2006  at  04:29 AM  



7. Sorry guys - my ‘access’ to the InterNet went down - been in the dark most of the weekend (forced my son to - gasp - even read a book!) Anyway - whatever option I think it was #2 - that keeps the looney left/government/Big Brother/1984/tinfoilhatweareres/and other assorted kooks,nuts, crazies and taxaholics (which you all know will be the next step to ‘make it fair for the *poor*’) out of and away from the InterNet and my computer is what I vote for.

   We pay through the nose (being held hostage by A******* which has been bought by Time Warner but probably on its billionth lawsuit to drag out the inevitable demise until doomsday) but we get on 24/7 and can do what we want (if it passes muster with my hubbys security protection) and we aren’t in a mysterious shutdown. . .

   I am sorry but I vote for slash and burn in DC (and corresponding yokels in the States) as these jokers are selling out the American people to the highest bidder and we won’t have any money left to do a damn thing which will lead to the collapse of America and I don’t want to wear a birqua.

   Posted by wardmama4       06/19/2006  at  06:58 AM  



8. We have a lower pace of broadband installation because of two things:

   1: the government isn’t subsidizing broadband, like in France and Liechtenstein

   2: We have far more of an area to cover than either of those coun tries, and as you know DSL requires specific substation (’switch’) distances, while running fiber optic cable all the way to your door still ain’t cheap....

   United States: 9,631,420 sq km
   France: 547,030 sq km
   Liechtenstein: 160 sq km (lemme give you a hint- Los Angeles County is 1,202 sq km)

   In France, it would be really hard to be 100 km from your nearest phone switch. Here, its not so hard.

   Posted by Draven       06/19/2006  at  08:40 AM  



9. Skipper, you didn’t answer the most important question. 

   Which one of these plans will allow the average consumer to download the most amount of porn in the least amount of time for the least amount of money?

   Posted by rudebadger       06/19/2006  at  12:58 PM  



10. Rudebadger, I’d have to say the APG bunch’s plan would bring you the most porn. The other group wants government regulation and you know where that leads - either censorship or premium prices for porn as purveyors move offshore.

    Either way I’d suggest stocking up your private supply of porn now before the war between these groups begin.

    

    Posted by The Skipper       06/19/2006  at  01:03 PM  

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