OT: TECH...Getting Fired Up

[TheChamps990411]

Im just relieved looking through some of these posts most of you arent idiots like HuskyHawks seems to be as he clearly has no idea wtf hes talking about. I feel bad for people paying over 200 bucks a month for cable/internet/phone because thats just crazy! I was paying 215 a month for just cable/internet so i couldnt get one of those package deals as i have zero interest in a landline in my house. I got tired of being jerked by the shady Cox balloon knots and dropped cable and kept my internet. Every time my bill went up they kept telling that some promotion i had had expired. This was absolutel bs! as i had no promotions or special offers of any kind.
I have a Roku with PsVue which has way more channels and altogether im paying 60 bucks less for it. Now i wonder how long these live streaming tv services are going to last if these scumbag cable companies get their way and net neutrality is killed off.

 

[uconnfan68]

No, they cannot. The antitrust laws and FTC act would shut that down. And the risk is huge, because these companies have spent a ton of effort integrating vertically, and the likely response to a move like that would be to break them up, so that no Internet provider was also a content provider.

People have short memories. Remember the massive phone bills with landlines in the 80s? Then deregulation and people thought it would be terrible. They were forced to compete and it drove innovation. Now a home phone with unlimited long distance is like $20. Competition among ISPs isn’t strong enough right now, but the research is on on high speed wireless internet to the home. They aren’t even running wires to rural America anymore. It’s coming, and then competition with be intense.

The changes being made allow isps to change traffic flow. Used to be an algorithm that essentially favored no one. Now it can be changed to do whatever the money wants. Congrats, you just broke the internet.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Im just relieved looking through some of these posts most of you arent idiots like HuskyHawks seems to be as he clearly has no idea wtf hes talking about. I feel bad for people paying over 200 bucks a month for cable/internet/phone because thats just crazy! I was paying 215 a month for just cable/internet so i couldnt get one of those package deals as i have zero interest in a landline in my house. I got tired of being jerked by the shady Cox and dropped cable and kept my internet. Every time my bill went up they kept telling that some promotion i had had expired. This was absolutel bs! as i had no promotions or special offers of any kind.
I have a Roku with PsVue which has way more channels and altogether im paying 60 bucks less for it. Now i wonder how long these live streaming tv services are going to last if these scumbag cable companies get their way and net neutrality is killed off.

Oh, I'm an idiot now. Fortunately your opinion on that is meaningless since you are obviously an idiot and a lemming incapable of independent thought. The talking points about Net Neutrality being thrown around aren't even based on a realistic view of how the internet works. Wired did a nice write up on this.

"The net neutrality debate is based on a mental model of the internet that hasn’t been accurate for more than a decade. We tend to think of the internet as a massive public network that everyone connects to in exactly the same way. We envision data traveling from Google and Yahoo and Uber and every other online company into a massive internet backbone, before moving to a vast array of ISPs that then shuttle it into our homes. That could be a neutral network, but it’s not today’s internet. It couldn’t be. Too much of the traffic is now coming from just a handful of companies."
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It is imperative that we increase competition among ISPs. I absolutely agree with that. Competition will drive innovation, decrease prices and ensure that the type of inappropriate throttling people worry about doesn't occur. Much of the problem on the competition side is because local cities and towns negotiated exclusive deals. That needs to end, and the feds should bar that practice. Very fast wireless is coming as well, and that will change the model for ISPs. The problem with Net Neutrality, and treating ISPs as a utility, is that the cost of being a highly regulated utility is the end of competition, and usually the end of innovation.

I pay over $200, including land line. But three HD boxes don't help. Yet I recall in the 1980's it was easy to have just a phone bill be over $200, because we all paid for long distance. So what I now get for that $200 is a lot more than it was then.

 

[TheChamps990411]

Oh, I'm an idiot now.

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Im starting to think you might be Ajit Pai himself with all the bs youre spewing.

 

[HuskyHawk]

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Im starting to think you might be Ajit Pai himself with all the bs youre spewing.

Did you read the Wired article? Did you find it to be BS? It's not worth arguing anymore. Believe whatever you want.