If The Net Is Not Broke Do Not Fix It

[icenine]

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...#axzz2zvbhXZpL

[finnbow]

Money talks.

[icenine]

I just do not understand why this is necessary at all.............

[merrylander]

In case anyone is interested they may be talking about THE CLOUD there is only so much bandwidthe between DC and green light. Someone has to provide the backbone of the Net and TANSTAAFL still applies.

[Boreas]

On the one hand, our streaming bit rate here in Exceptional Land is pretty piss poor so an increase would be welcome. On the other hand, this is really just a way to get more money out of the customer. It will introduce a tiered system of rates based on bandwidth and that will eventually lead to a cable TV type system of paid access to packages of sites. You want Netflix? Okay, that's in our Hollywood Package. You get Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, VUDU, Blockbuster, Crackle and 100 music channels, all for $99.99 a month!

John

[icenine]

Originally Posted by Boreas

On the one hand, our streaming bit rate here in Exceptional Land is pretty piss poor so an increase would be welcome. On the other hand, this is really just a way to get more money out of the customer. It will introduce a tiered system of rates based on bandwidth and that will eventually lead to a cable TV type system of paid access to packages of sites. You want Netflix? Okay, that's in our Hollywood Package. You get Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, VUDU, Blockbuster, Crackle and 100 music channels, all for $99.99 a month!

John

yeah it is just another way that the cable operators want to slice into our wallets.

I mean there has already been a pretty good consolidation of internet providers into a few major companies.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by icenine

yeah it is just another way that the cable operators want to slice into our wallets.

I mean there has already been a pretty good consolidation of internet providers into a few major companies.

This Comcast/Time Warner merger will be the beginning of the end. It would combine the #1 cable provider with the #2 provider and the #1 internet provider with #3. If that's not a monopoly, I don't know what is.

And you watch. The merger will be approved.

John

[barbara]

We have a basic comcast package and we have more tv than we have time to watch.

[merrylander]

So Netflix, Hulu, et. al should be allowed to burn bandwidth at will? Our Comcast package and my cable modem and router are quite able to stream movies if I wanted to watch them on a PC monitor, but at the Netflix end the requirement woul be horrendous.

People (and even network proviiders like to go on about how fast they can download. I have a number of packages that either do daily updates or frequent downloads and they all run at different speeds quite simply because the speed is controlled by the server.