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By: Can Revenue Sharing settle the Content vs. Access Provider conflict? « Broadband Prime

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:26:24 +0000

[...] of information circulated in each flow (against significant network neutrality principles). [Read: How Network Non-Neutrality Affects Real Businesses] [FCC vs. Comcast public hearing web link is still missing here...]. Packet shaping is not applied [...]

By: Ryan Friedrich

Ryan Friedrich — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:16:34 +0000

For those of you who don’t know, shaped internet already exists. Ask anyone who uses the internet in Austrailia about it. The companies gouge them by giving them excessively fast internet and limiting them to a certain amount of GBs per month of transfer. Typically the limit in AUS is about 4-6GB’s a month with plans for “unlimited” in the 200 Aus dollar per month range. After you have exceeded your 6GBs for the month, your speed drops from broadband to a meager 64kbps, roughly faster than dialup.

By: Wikinomics » Blog Archive » It’s time to deal with the Net Neutrality issue

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:07:49 +0000

[...] it’s not just ISPs being hit – Rich Baker has a great post about the trouble this has caused for his company Glance Networks. Glance is trying to enable [...]

By: Andrew Patrick » Collateral damage from network throttling and business impacts

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:10:12 +0000

[...] How Network Non-Neutrality Affects Real Businesses One day a few years ago, our support line got a spate of calls from customers complaining that our service had suddenly slowed to a crawl. We soon realized the problem was localized to Canada, where nearly everyone gets their Internet service through one of just two ISPs. Sure enough, posts on blogs indicated that both of these ISPs had secretly deployed “traffic shaping” methods to beat back the flow of BitTorrent traffic. But the criteria their methods used to identify the streams were particularly blunt instruments that not only slowed BitTorrent, but many other high-speed data streams sent by their customers’ computers. [...]

By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:11:38 +0000

The ISP’s think traffic shaping is the best option. For them it’s simple, easy, and as long as they were able to hide it non-controversial. Now that it’s become a bit of a hot button issue, they may be having second thoughts. I’ve seen a couple of polls (including the one at the Globe and Mail) which have been heavily against traffic shaping. Those ISP’s who use it rather than upgrade their lines to carry the traffic that they promised to carry when they offered “Unlimited” accounts, may have severe problems with customer churn if their competition decides to not use traffic shaping. Of course there really isn’t all that much competition in the ISP market in Canada.

By: How Network Non-Neutrality Affects Real Businesses | Adam McNamara

How Network Non-Neutrality Affects Real Businesses | Adam McNamara — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:53:53 +0000

[...] a moment to read this fantastic article by Rich Baker, founder and CEO of Glance Networks. In one of the most articulate and easy to read [...]

By: Kevin Holtsbery

Kevin Holtsbery — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:53:39 +0000

I really enjoyed reading your opinion piece about net neutrality and how it’s affected you personally. I greatly appreciate how middle of the road your opinion is even after those affects. The problem I have with your conclusion that the internet should be a per byte subscription based service is that 1) people won’t swallow that pill easily. 2) how can people possibly keep track of how many bytes they have used, and furthermore, 3) how can a consumer confirm that the telecom mougles aren’t abusing that figure. It’s not like how it was in the beginning when you paid per minute. Too many sites have way too much data on them already that I personally don’t even pay attention to. With this proposed method I would now need to pay for all that extra nonsense! And it hasn’t been a huge issue lately but all those pop-up ads certainly add up. Currently you pay for throughput not total usage and you have tiers to that degree. Per byte usage will hurt not only the little guy, it will prevent people from expanding their exposure to new sites for fear of going over their limit. It’s the same reason I don’t txt message, because it hurts my pocket way more than it’s worth.

By: Les fournisseurs d’accès Internet limiteraient le débit en fonction du type de contenus - jonathan.bonzy.tv : le blog de Jonathan Bonzy

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:31:42 +0000

[...] Xconomy : How Network Non-Neutrality Affects Real Businesses Tags: Arcep, BitTorrent, FAI, FCC, [...]