[178371] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Fri Feb 27 12:21:37 2015
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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 11:15:24 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@paradoxnetworks.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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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.
