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Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality
From: Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 11:07:03 -0600 (CST)
More symmetry will happen when the home user does more things that care about symmetry. It's a simple allocation of spectrum (whether wireless, DSL or cable). MHz for upload are taken out of MHz for download. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce H McIntosh" <bhm () ufl edu> To: "NANOG" <nanog () nanog org> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 11:03:35 AM Subject: Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality On 2015-02-27 11:45, Mike Hammett wrote:
What about ISPs that aren't world-class dicks?
The REAL evil in the ISP marketplace is, of course, essentially entirely unremarked-upon - ASYMMETRY. For the Internet, as such, truly to live up to its promise to continue to revolutionize the world through free exchange of ideas, information, data and so forth, Joe Average User *MUST* have the same pipes going UP as he does coming DOWN. Just as an example, my service at home is what, 50 down/5 up? That structure is less conducive to free interchange and more conducive to the Big-Brother™-seal-of-approval mindless consumption of whatever content THEY™ deem necessary and sufficient to keep the bread and circus masses dull and uninvolved. Plus, the slow uplink speeds make remote backups dreadfully impractical for the home user. So let's see some symmetry in the offerings, ISPs, ok? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bruce H. McIntosh bhm () ufl edu Senior Network Engineer http://net-services.ufl.edu University of Florida Network Services 352-273-1066
Current thread:
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality, (continued)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Rob McEwen (Feb 27)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Lamar Owen (Feb 28)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Rob McEwen (Feb 28)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Lamar Owen (Feb 28)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Owen DeLong (Feb 28)
- RE: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Keith Medcalf (Feb 28)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Owen DeLong (Feb 28)
- RE: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Keith Medcalf (Feb 28)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Mike Hale (Feb 27)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Bruce H McIntosh (Feb 27)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Mike Hammett (Feb 27)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality John Levine (Feb 27)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Mark Tinka (Feb 27)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 27)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Bruce H McIntosh (Feb 27)
- RE: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Naslund, Steve (Feb 27)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Scott Helms (Feb 27)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Daniel Taylor (Feb 27)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Scott Helms (Feb 27)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Steve Clark (Feb 27)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Jack Bates (Feb 27)