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Also net neutrality was a key barrier to ad hoc and distributed/self organizing networks. Once people perceive that they are not guaranteed to get what they pa
by zackmorris 13y ago
Also net neutrality was a key barrier to ad hoc and distributed/self organizing networks. Once people perceive that they are not guaranteed to get what they paid for, there will be a race to the bottom to find alternatives. The ISPs killed the goose that laid the golden egg and don't even know it yet.
- guelo 13y agoThis doesn't ring true. Mesh-type networks fail for many reasons. Mainly, nobody seems to have found a good use for them, especially with everybody walking around with 4G hotspots nowadays. Seems very doubtful that the FCC would have gotten involved regulating some fledgling community network. Can you provide any evidence that an adhoc network was ever regulated under network neutrality rules?
- dangrossman 13y agoI don't think that's what he's saying. He's saying that ad hoc networks never took off because normal ISPs were good enough. Normal ISPs were good enough because of net neutrality. Now that net neutrality no longer forces ISPs to provide equal service levels for all data someone may want to access, there's an opening for ad hoc networks to fill.