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Unless I'm horribly mistaken, switching to your small local ISP won't change things, either. Because they don't own the pipes. They lease them from (you guessed
by nickelcitymario 9y ago
Unless I'm horribly mistaken, switching to your small local ISP won't change things, either. Because they don't own the pipes. They lease them from (you guessed it) AT&T, et al.
And as a non-American, this still terrifies me, because the U.S. is the nucleus that holds the web together. It's darn near impossible to overstate how much decisions in the U.S. will impact the whole world.
This is not an issue that a free market can solve, because when it comes to main lines that connect the whole Web, it's practically a monopoly of the big boys. It's their sandbox.
Net Neutrality hid the consequences of this from us by forcing them to play nice. Scrap it and they have way too much power.
- Bluecobra 9y agoI have wireless Internet from a local ISP delivered to my building by point-to-point microwave. They have to get a license from the FCC but they effectively "own" their own pipes all they way up to the ISPs that they peer with. Hopefully the silver lining in this is this will result in more wireless ISPs popping up since they can bypass the incumbent wired phone/cable providers.
- SirFatty 9y agoThat's the point, I think. CDNs are all tier one, and tier one is where the bandwidth shaping will happen?
- Bluecobra 9y agoTrue, maybe we will see more content providers following the Netflix model. They basically are their own CDN and will give ISPs free caching appliances/settlement free peering. https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/ https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/ Unfortunately, ISPs such as Comcast have already perverted this model and demanded Netflix to pay up for access to their network despite throwing in free hardware and peering. https://qz.com/256586/the-inside-story-of-how-netflix-came-to-pay-comcast-for-internet-traffic/ https://qz.com/256586/the-inside-story-of-how-netflix-came-t...