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Great. Yet another instance of anti-Net Neutrality. Thoughtful question for the day: would an ISP that prioritized P2P traffic be considered amazing, or evil?
by zbanks 16y ago
Great. Yet another instance of anti-Net Neutrality.
Thoughtful question for the day: would an ISP that prioritized P2P traffic be considered amazing, or evil?
- semanticist 16y agoI think this is more an example of why legislated 'net neutrality' would be a terrible idea. If I was a big online gamer, I'd love to ensure that I had a low-latency connection for the things that matter to me. Similarly, if I was a business doing a lot of videoconferencing, I'd happily pay extra to ensure the data that's important to me. Why shouldn't an ISP be able to sell a product that prioritises what's important to their customers over stuff that isn't? Legislated net neutrality really annoys me. Traffic shaping is essential for things like VoIP to be usable. The emotive argument about big ISPs charging small websites out of the market is purely theoretical, while the need for traffic shaping and other prioritisation is real and present today.