Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

[Jack Bates <jbates () paradoxnetworks net>]

On 2/27/2015 11:03 AM, Bruce H McIntosh wrote:
> 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?

I'm all for this, except many technologies don't allow for it. Even if 
they did, you might see a lot less down in exchange for that upload. 
That may be fine for some, but would be undesired by others.

I laugh every time I see a billboard locally that says, "Enjoy your free 
speed upgrade". They switched all their customers from ADSL to ADSL2 and 
gave them a slight download increase. Of course, ADSL2 has a slower 
upload limit. 500k may not seem a lot, but when you only had 1.5m to 
begin with, it's a considerable amount.