re: Net neutrality, what is this boards consensus?

That still feels like it's at least a generation away from being viable honestly. But it's an interesting perspective. Thanks for your insight on the topic.

I'm still far from being convinced that it's a better option for the immediate future than is net neutrality, but that position at least makes more sense than the arguments I'd been hearing from your side to date.

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People already hate the current providers, if this new system is legit, it will replace the current eventually, even with NN on the books.

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This is my largest gripe from a pragmatic standpoint with NN, it removes user interest from the equation. DISPs strength would be typical of all networks, their quality and value will grow exponentially with the network. Every technical aspect could be solidly in place and DISP would be essentially worthless as a concept without interested individuals willing and desiring to use DISP nodes instead of their ISPs in some circumstances.

Thanks for stating it more clearly

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Get rid of it. Government regulates too much.

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Your getting down voted baw. Too many people believe a corporation should spend billions of dollars building a network, years building a customer base and then have the government come in and tell that company you will not restrict the BW/traffic/data throughput of your competitors who have the legal right to access your network through government intervention.

Whew! that was a long arse sentence. There's more to it than that but from Verizon/AT+T/Sprint's standpoint and any of the other major carriers that is what it boils down to.

So to condense it into a more cogent statement, the big carriers do not want their customers service to suck as bad as their competitors in the name of fair competition.
It's all about data throughput and if your competitor is guaranteed equal throughput on the network you built it can impact your customers when data traffic is at peak usage which is usually after 4PM-10PM during the week, weekend traffic is also very heavy.

I know a lot of people wish it was still 1970 and AT+T was the only game and completely regulated by the government.

I just think that people already hate the current system enough and will readily support another system if viable.

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My basic understanding is that it would take many years before mesh networks are mounting a serious challenge and that is before the inevitable regulatory roadblocks manufactured by the ISP's on multiple levels.

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The only reason why this is the case is the inefficient nature of operating a node. With a payment mechanism, anyone could chase the profits

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Net neutrality, what is this boards consensus?

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I wholeheartedly support it and you should too if you don't want this to be reality in the future....



Republicans being in bed with big telecoms is one thing I fricking hate about them.

LOL

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That will never happen.

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