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And then we all grow up and realize that little Johnny can't run his competition on his competition without paying protection money. All joking aside, there is
by alttab 13y ago
And then we all grow up and realize that little Johnny can't run his competition on his competition without paying protection money.
All joking aside, there isn't much you can do. comcast owns the tubes. The world where they have to bend to the masses is a scary world.
Is this better? I dunno, only if Netflix goes out of business. This only really shortens comcasts rope long term. They just created a new market with this strong arm.
Grab your popcorn folks, this is going to get interesting.
- mbetter 13y ago> All joking aside, there isn't much you can do. comcast owns the tubes. The world where they have to bend to the masses is a scary world. Less scary than the one where they don't have to.
- zanny 13y agoI get the impression satellite Internet might be getting more popular.
- TylerE 13y agospeed of light says it won't, unless you like 400ms ping times.
- mikeyouse 13y agoI don't mind 400ms ping times when streaming Netflix, as long as the bandwidth is there.
- warmwaffles 13y agoOh you'll mind when trying to browse for movies or do any commands. It'll be like waiting in line at the DMV. Sure they have the bandwidth to work with everyone, but you still have to wait.
- grogenaut 13y agoSo serve it 2 ways, browsing over normal network, streaming from another domain over the sattelites.
- nknighthb 13y agoVastly increased cost, vastly increased complexity, all to work around a problem that only exists because we won't slap down predatory monopolies.
- grogenaut 13y agoIt's no different than using different CDNs for different types of web assets and it's very likely something they are doing already.
- Karunamon 13y agoDo they? Every satellite internet provider I've ever seen has hilariously low bandwidth caps.
- XorNot 13y agoThere's ample precedent (Bell) for what will happen to Comcast, though the real issue is so long as US voters put more emphasis on hearing the evangelism of free markets then seeing the implementation, nothing will change. What's needed at a low level is laws that provide general access to street-level conduits and cabinets so competing ISPs (i.e. Google Fibre) can actually start up competing services to the big providers. Unfortunately efficiency would demand some level of government subsidy and the chances of that in the current environment trend towards zero (i.e. it would be way more efficient to have the government pay for the fibre to the home splice, and then let the big companies fight it out over who gets to attach a router to that and how that router is serviced).
- manicdee 13y agoThat's not a bad model: the last mile is usually the most expensive piece of any network to install, after all. The Australian NBN was going to be something along the same lines: Government installs the common backhaul, last mile and "points of interconnect" then the corporations can install their points of presence & if required they can provide their own backhaul too. Sadly Rupert Murdoch's party has decided that further proliferation of the very model the NBN was trying to avoid is a better way of spending the money.
- XorNot 13y agoIronically that whole thing is essentially all about NetFlix as well: Australia with decent broadband would be a tempting market to enter, and would obliterate Foxtel overnight. Currently Foxtel also signs all sorts of exclusivity agreements to make sure no one can offer streaming services for regular TV in Australia either - hence the mystery of us still receiving American TV shows up to a year after they finish running in the US. There's a reason we're #1 for torrent piracy.