On 2015-02-27 11:45, Mike Hammett wrote:
What about ISPs that aren't world-class dicks?
The REAL evil in the ISP marketplace is, of course, essentially entirely
unremarked-upon - ASYMMETRY. For the Internet, as such, truly to live
up to its promise to continue to revolutionize the world through free
exchange of ideas, information, data and so forth, Joe Average User
*MUST* have the same pipes going UP as he does coming DOWN. Just as an
example, my service at home is what, 50 down/5 up? That structure is
less conducive to free interchange and more conducive to the
Big-Brother™-seal-of-approval mindless consumption of whatever content
THEY™ deem necessary and sufficient to keep the bread and circus masses
dull and uninvolved. Plus, the slow uplink speeds make remote backups
dreadfully impractical for the home user. So let's see some symmetry in
the offerings, ISPs, ok?
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Bruce H. McIntosh b...@ufl.edu
Senior Network Engineer http://net-services.ufl.edu
University of Florida Network Services 352-273-1066
