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« on: July 02, 2006, 03:56:03 AM »
...if this guy, Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), represents the decision making authority in the US Senate. I am just dumbfounded how this guy could get elected and be responsible for making decisions that affect the future of the Internet.

http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/index.blog?entry_id=1512499

The only elected official I can think of who may be more of an idiot is the city manager of Tuttle, OK, Jerry A. Taylor.
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« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2006, 07:58:27 AM »
Actually he does make an interesting point, even though he sounds kind of stupid in the way he states it.  Let me have a go if you will.

Perhaps we need some sort of dedicated bandwidth system where certain files are transmitted over certain ranges.  Say we divide it up into certain size files:
0-1 meg
1-10 meg
10 meg +
What if we were to give each of these there own pathway that only they could follow.  Would it then decrease time for things like email that even I have noticed takes time to transfer sometimes.  Heck I sent an email to a friend the other day that took 24 hours before she finally saw it!  Now while this is definatly abnormal for me, I wonder if instuting something like this would help at all?

I think it would be helpful if someone who truly understand the algorythems that go into how the internet handles data responded here.

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« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2006, 08:57:36 AM »
I had a very tough time understanding what all he was saying. Either the guy who typed it up from audio missed stuff, or this senator is unable to talk correctly. Might be cuz I just woke up though. If someone could summarize what he was talking about, it'd be appreciated >< That was incredibly confusing.

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« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2006, 12:16:02 PM »
He's talking about Net Neutrality. It's been a pretty big hotbutton issue lately. Basically, there are a lot of ISP's that want to start charging operator's of websites to get preferential treatment in the delivery of their data. Big telco's like Verizon, ATT, etc. are sick of giving companies like Google and Yahoo and Microsoft what they call a "free ride". The telcos spent billions of dollars to build the infrastructure the Internet runs on and they want the companies' whose vitality depends on it to pay.

Why this is a bad thing....In the very unfortunate event something like this happens, large companies will pay the price to ensure their data gets through. To overcome this extra cost, consumers will start to see the end of their free ride. Imagine no more free webmail services, pay per search on Google, no more free viral video sites like AlbinoBlackSheep, YouTube, etc. Those companies would all have to recoup their "access" costs somehow, most likely by passing it on to the people who want to use their service. Then there is the matter of the smaller sites not getting the access they need to have a level playing field with the biggies. What if FITES had to start paying extra to get its bandwidth across. We may have to shut down. Those little Google Ads contribute a little bit, but they wouldn't do nearly enough. Sure, we could not pay the extra access fees, then we'd watch page load time go through the roof because we have to wait for all the Google search traffic to go across the Internet's routers first, while our packets wait in line with all the other "poor people".

The bottom line is that Net Neutrality is a good thing, and the big telco's that stand to make billions of dollars over a prioritzed access model are just greedy bastards.
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