@dashrender said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@bigbear said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@dashrender said in [FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues]
from here it looks like small ISPs want it repealed so they can punish their users, instead of raising prices like they should to cover costs.
Now following: How are ISP's able to punish their users with the repeal? And why would they want to?
They punish them by slowing down video streams so users use less data, as an example. Again that flat rate mentality they have put out there, users (crazily mind you) think they have unlimited data - but really have, not a cap, but a (for sake of argument) 1 TB included account. Go over 1 TB and you're paying X for y additional data.
So keep customers quite - the ISP can simple throttle back on video throughput lowering the overall usage, the customer will likely not realize (at least until 4K streaming becomes mainstream, though some argue that HD is very noticeable - whatever level you want to draw the line) they aren't getting the bandwidth they paid for.
There isnt a single big or small ISP that isnt managing their network in this way, though. Throttling is what one would refer to in this business as "Network Management".
Real Time Services cant be buffered, there are content caching systems and a lot of other things similar to whats being done with video streams.
So this goes back to my initial premise of "this new law really isnt going to do anything, for better or worst"
The argument about flat rates I understand. I would not invest in a start ISP that was going to attempt this type of pricing though. It simply wouldn't sell, almost at any price it wouldnt sell. I myself wouldnt even want to buy it that why. So that is my only argument there.
If the government wants to really force the internet as a metered utility it would be interesting to see the resulting pricing and public reaction. I have not idea how that would track.
