Tony Erikson Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 I haven't put this in comp & tech because it could potentially affect every user of the interwebs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality Basically a few of the major ISPs and websites are wanting to push it forward. It means that that internet traffic will be prioritised so that the more popular web sites, or those that pay for the privilege would download faster than normal sites. Have a read up on Google's blog. They want it. It could mean no more Facebooks or Googles (By that I mean very successful ideas that flourish) as the new site would download much slower than an established site which pays for the priority. Sites like Sheffield Forum would be affected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altus Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 Basically a few of the major ISPs and websites are wanting to push it forward. It means that that internet traffic will be prioritised so that the more popular web sites, or those that pay for the privilege would download faster than normal sites. That's the opposite of net neutrality. Net neutrality is NOT prioritising one type of traffic over another. Most of ISPs are against it as they have unsustainable business models - competing on lowest price for supposedly unlimited connections. They see being able to charge web sites as a way of getting more money without put the prices up to their customers. The excessive costs to ISPs of heavy users pretty much goes away if you have metered access and they pay for the amount of data they download. Similarly for users who hog a shared connection's bandwidth if you give priority to the user who least recently send/recieved some data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Erikson Posted March 29, 2011 Author Share Posted March 29, 2011 That's the opposite of net neutrality. Net neutrality is NOT prioritising one type of traffic over another. Most of ISPs are against it as they have unsustainable business models - competing on lowest price for supposedly unlimited connections. They see being able to charge web sites as a way of getting more money without put the prices up to their customers. The excessive costs to ISPs of heavy users pretty much goes away if you have metered access and they pay for the amount of data they download. Similarly for users who hog a shared connection's bandwidth if you give priority to the user who least recently send/recieved some data. Yes I am aware what net neutrality is. I guess I should have made myself clearer. The whole debate is about net neutrality and who wants to change it for their own gains. Thanks for putting the thread right though. I do think this is an important issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootsBooster Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 Net Neutrality info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mecky Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 It sounds a good idea for unfortunately it's just business, manufacturers will always try and corner the market and put their competitors out of business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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