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looks like we (users) are not the only ones pissed off... check out this e-mail from ebay
Net Neutrality and the eBay Community: A Call to Action
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The phone and cable companies now control more than 95% of all Internet access. These large corporations are spending millions of dollars to promote legislation that would divide the Internet into a two-tiered system.
The top tier would be a "Pay-to-Play" high-speed toll-road restricted to only the largest companies that can afford to pay high fees for preferential access to the Net.
The bottom tier -- the slow lane -- would be what is left for everyone else. If the fast lane is the information "super-highway," the slow lane will operate more like a dirt road.
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Hmm....theres always the Seattle Wireless approach. Time to take out my hot rodded WRT54Gs :) I have enoughj networking equipment at my house to wire up maybe 100 or 200 computers...it would be a start anyway. I would imagine that this might be able to work fairly well in cities, but wouldn't be able to really cross continents are make it between cities. I'd sooner try to create citry run internet gateways than to have traffic limited. This concept would crush start-ups. The internet might need to be more well regulated, but not if it interferes with people's abilities to use it. Running e-mail through filters to block spam might be an option, but I would hate to have my e-mails blocked as false positives or blocked because they were considered politically undesirable etc.
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good thing this is on chatting since this is heading way off topic...
There are rumors that google has plans to do something like this, they have bought up tons of 'dark' fiber (left over from the internet boom) have had some engineering done on seeing how many servers can you put in a box trailer, the google secure access (secure tunnel into a google server which is connected to the internet--you are safe on open access points but google gets to look at your surfing--and that hot spot that they put up... Could be big; very big.
Imagine if everyone could have free internet access but they had to look at a google ad every time they opened the browser or something like that
I think the primary problem is bandwidth... Heck, at my school the laptop carts with a 100mb link to the for the classroom laptops have a hard time keeping up with the load of 30 students surfing the web (the activity bar graph on the switch gets into the red zone and the collision bar get like half full at times) imagine what it would take for a city. Say you want to give everyone a 1mb/s link (enough for most streaming content)... With a 802.11.b access point you could (optimistically) handle 50 people... Now in LA there are what, 10 million people? That is like a half million access point just to handle the load... And a terabit backbone connection! Even if you say that only 1% of people will use their allotted 1mb/s that is still a 10gb/s backbone connection... Now if someone like google were to be the provider they could host their own streaming music/video service so they only need enough bandwidth to handle the rest of the web and the people that are streaming from somewhere else, but that is still a ton of bandwidth... Until fiber gets cheap enough to give away...
Hmm, I could probably wire in the adjacent houses into mine (with about 10 of my total 30 ports available) and then they would be able to stream all of the multimedia content I have on my server Although kind of the opposite is happening now, I am leaching off my neighbors wireless to get extra up speed... We could have one heck of a connection if we all teamed togher and combined out total 1mb/s up and 10mb/s down...
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Well thats a load of crap . . . (The Web Toll)
Although kind of the opposite is happening now, I am leaching off my neighbors wireless to get extra up speed... We could have one heck of a connection if we all teamed togher and combined out total 1mb/s up and 10mb/s down...