I did that yesterday. Congress has been<br>slow to act on net neutrality legislation,<br>making me think they are in the back <br>pocket of the industry on this issue too.<br>Industry says legislation is unnecessary,<br>which suggest it wouldn't hurt then either.
<br><br>But it's what we can do. I'd like to see the<br>tax payers have their own backbone fibers,<br>that can be used by private ISPs, but not <br>controlled.<br><br>Of course the tax payers have Internet2 - not
<br>to be confused with Internet 2. A high speed<br>Internet backbone that only gov't labs and <br>schools can use. It's been around for 8 years<br>that I know of, and is supposedly a vehicle<br>for researching high speed networks. That part
<br>I think is a crock, and doubt that it will ever be<br>opened up to ordinary tax payers. Too much<br>fun the way things are... :-(<br><br> -Bob<br><br><br><p><DEFANGED_div><DEFANGED_span class="gmail_quote">On 10/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Michael Mol</b> <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</DEFANGED_span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Both me and a friend of mine have encountered Comcast's filtering.<br>Since I found out that it's there, I can't help but wonder if any<br>given spurious RST packet came from them.<br><br>However, there may be a way around it, but it requires delaying action
<br>on received RST packets to see if normal packets follow, which would<br>require modification of the TCP stack of the host and any NAT in<br>between.<br><br>I think I'm going to send Levin and Stabenow a couple more letters
<br>regarding Net Neutrality.</blockquote><p><DEFANGED_div><br></p><DEFANGED_div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 10/20/07, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">
bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Those of you with Comcast might be interested in this:<br>><br>> <a href="http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2007/10/19/comcast/">http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2007/10/19/comcast/
</a><br>><br>> For those of you that don't have Comcast, what one<br>> company does others might follow. Comcast has been<br>> less than forthcoming about its activities, and was dug<br>> out by the Associated Press.
<br>><br>> The head of SBC, and later AT&T, mumbled a couple<br>> of years ago that he didn't see why people should be<br>> able to use "his" fibers to put competitive services on.<br>> In that case phone service like Vonage.
<br>><br>> While companies like Comcast are trying to snow<br>> Congress in to thinking there is no need for net neutrality<br>> legislation, clearly there is. The alternative is to let<br>> outfits like Comcast do for the Internet what it and
<br>> DirecTV have done for TV - just a sea of ads, with the not<br>> so subtle hint you might want to buy some premium<br>> services if you want to actually watch any programming.<br>><br>> With the Internet we might end up paying for premium
<br>> services just to stay where we are now. Otherwise<br>> Comcast might just want to make your life miserable.<br>> And don't forget that it is a monopoly in many of the<br>> areas it serves.<br>><br>
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