re: Net Neutrality -- What You Need To Know

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If an ISP feels the need to put caps and charge for overage, that's fine. It is a total rip-off for consumers, but it's still fine. If you feel that you are getting ripped off because others are getting more use out of their bandwidth than you are, then take it up with your ISP for not offering a level of service at a price you like, or for not charging heavy users more for their service. They can even go to metered billing, which is also fine as far as net neutrality is concerned (though there are a lot of other problems with metered internet billing).

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The reality is the problem ISPs are trying to solve isn't really even an issue caused by power users. ISPs have to build for peak usage. 5-10pm at night is when usage is at the peak. Even if you remove the power users from this, you are still going to have this peak usage. And I doubt it changes that much.

Its a load of horesehit that SFP is eating up. He seems pretty smart, but isn't applying his intelligence to this.

We are getting conned. Net neutrality does one thing and one thing only, give telcos the ability to distinguish internet traffic, and its really for one reason to blackmail businesses to give them MORE money. Consumers probably won't have to pony up for a few years but businesses will have to pay on day 1.

the only thing that will save us is how incompetent the big telcos are at doing stuff. They really can't get anything right, and even when they do something it can be bypassed. I suspect I will be able to get around any sort of traffic allocation they set up. But I have a masters in comp sci, I am not the majority.