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Re: Net Neutrality...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Tue Jul 15 23:05:13 2014

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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 23:04:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brett Glass" <nanog@brettglass.com>

> Estimates of the maximum bandwidths of all the human senses, combined,
> range between the capacity of a T1 line (at the low end) and
> about 4 Mbps (at the high end). A human being simply is not wired to
> accept more input. (Yes, machines could digest more... which means that
> additional bandwidth to and from the home might be useful for the purpose
> of spying on us.) What does this imply about the FCC's proposal to
> redefine "broadband" as a symmetrical 10 Mbps?

That they understand that more than one person lives in a house.

"Spying on us"?

<plonk>

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