That's a function of Comcast and almost every cable provider being stingy with upload channels, unfortch. NN would not have saved it.
'Getting a free ride' adopts the language of the monopolists. That they haven't charged on the services side, but only on the client side, is why the internet works the way it works. That it is dead (at least for now) is not good news even if it's a separate issue from privacy concerns.
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From: Lou Judson <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2018 05:17 PM
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] AW: [ARSCLIST] Data mining, was: ARSC Facebook Group?
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> Net unneutrality means big things to me - when Comcast recently upgraded my conneciton, I was able to get triple the dowload speed, but half the upload speed! Sending hour long auio up now takes a lot longer.
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> Grrr.
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> I still think the internet was best in 2005, downhill ever since.
> <L>
> Lou Judson
> Intuitive Audio
> 415-883-2689
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> On Sep 14, 2018, at 2:09 PM, David Breneman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > Von: "Corey Bailey" <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> >> If you use the internet, your data is being mined. As of this year, with
> >> the death of Net Neutrality, your ISP can mine your data and sell it to
> >> whomever they want.
> >
> > It's hard to take the "death" of Net Neutrality seriously when
> > it never really went into effect. Seriously, as of, say, 1993,
> > nothing has changed in this regard. And it had nothing to do
> > with data mining. It was all about "Over The Top" service
> > providers, like Netflix, getting a free ride from backbone network
> > providers.
> >
> >
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