[sllug-members]: Comcast has problems

[Lonnie Olson]

Aaron Toponce wrote:
> All the more reason you need to write your congressman about Net
> Neutrality.  If you don't want to pay high prices for services you
> aren't going to use, then you shouldn't have to.  For those of us
> who want to, we can.

Net Neutrality has nothing to do with the prices *you* have to pay.  It 
is supposed to affect what uploaders pay.  The major backbone providers 
that will be affected if a bill like these passes are not going to 
reduce prices for their customers, they are just trying to get more 
money from non-customers.

About Net Neutrality...
Do you really want a complete idiot (Congress) to write the laws that 
tell ISPs what they can, and cannot do with their links?   I personally 
like traffic shaping, prioritization, and such.  It makes my customers 
very happy when their VOIP connections don't get lagged behind all the 
bittorrent traffic.  So far, all Net Neutrality bills would explicitly 
forbid me to do any traffic shaping.  Now that is bad.

Currently, we live in a free market.  That means you can switch ISPs if 
you don't like their style of prioritization/shaping, or even that of 
their upstream providers.  I would definitely switch my backbone 
connection, if they start deprioritizing Google.  My customers would be 
mad if I didn't.

Until I see a Net Neutrality bill that isn't lame and/or dangerous.  I 
won't support it.

--lonnie