The majority of Internet users are aware of what's going on with Comcast and their throttling practices, the idea of a tiered and non neutral Internet, immunity to the telco's for warrantless wiretapping, and countless other crimes that go completely against the principles this country was founded on. But what most people don't know is that the United States is far behind in their Internet infrastructure, which might explain why Internet service providers are so upset about people actually using the Internet. Instead of implementing their network infrastructure properly the first time, they probably went with the most cost effective cheapest, and fastest solution. And by fastest, I don't mean downstream.
Here's a screen shot from my buddy in Korea:
Yea, that's 3,434.2 kilobytes a second, or 3.35 megabytes a second. This is common in many foreign countries, but not the U.S.
As far as I'm concerned, United States Internet Service Providers have no business complaining, for any reason. If anyone should be upset it's U.S. citizens. Comcast, Time Warner and all these other multi million (billion?) dollar corporations are complaining because people are using peer to peer technology to communicate and exchange information. Well excuse me, isn't that what the Internet was designed for?
After seeing this screen shot, how do your download speeds compare? Share your thoughts via a comment.
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Uh... yeah. 3,434.2 kilobytes a second would be nice. My download speeds don't compare =/
You can complain all you like, and you are right in your complaints, but wrong in who to complain about. The American people are fully to blame with their support of corporatism in this country. It's the same reason we see ghost towns that were once vibrant downtowns across America, the population wants cheap, not good and fair. As an early ISP innovator, I started one of the first family owned ISP's in the midwest in the early 1990's, but where are all the small familiy owned ISP's today? They are nearly non-existent just like the small family owned video rental business, hardware stores, and every other small business across America.
People need to demand the service levels they wish to buy, and someone will provide it, and you just might have to pay more for it, but you will get the satisfaction of putting food on your neighbors table instead of dividend checks in shareholders pockets. Shop where your business is truly valued, and you will receive service that has been missing in this country for decades, or shop at the closest big box corporate siphoning hole, and get low quality products with no service before, during, or after the sale.
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