This story finaly made the news, "Internet Service Providers are discrimintating against certian traffic" and I finaily relised that it is happening. I notice the slowness of the internet more than most people because I'm on dial up, it also lets me watch my bandwith more closely. I have noticed 2 things 1 my 48Kbps connection is never even closely reached during downloads. They start at 12 Kbps and slowly drop to 4 Kbps that means 15 mins to download a song. The second thing I noticed and what wasn't talked about in the news has to do with Windows XP. As most of you know you can watch your network utilization in task manager. I noted that in downloads that are Windows doesn't report the download speed up (Steam for Counter Strike) it slows down. But once you close task manager and start it up agian you start downloading at the same speed you started at with no speed reduction.
I find taht both of these things are very disconcering. First off that my ISP's computer knows what I'm doing and changes my allotted bandwith based on that. Sure my connection starts and 48kbps and it's mostlikley that fast when I surf but it slowes down soo much on downloads that this must be the case. I haven't mentioned my ISP in this and I dont plan too.
Another thing mentioned in this news report was that the FCC wasn't enforcing their laws about this at all. Towrds the end of the story they did say that they were going to improve the laws and start enforcing them, so expect changes sometime in the next century.
Discriminating against Internet use! The fiends!
At home I have dial-up, and I'm lucky if I can download a song within 15 minutes.
Yes I knew there was a special name for this, it's called net neutrality. I'm jsut adding this now becuase I just remembered.
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