<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Michael Mol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> To constrain the conversation<br>
> a little bit, I'd be talking about<br>
> home service here. Others might<br>
> be talking about their place of work,<br>
> where the cost picture can be yet<br>
> different.<br>
<br>
</div>Only in terms of how much money they have available to spend, and<br>
sometimes not even there. If you want to divide the market into two<br>
players*, "consumers" and "businesses", you need to recognize that<br>
ISPs which cater to one group will offer different services than what<br>
cater to the other group. Getting enterprise services for consumer<br>
prices is not fiscally sustainable, and Net Neutrality has been all<br>
about forcing enterprise ISP properties on consumer ISPs.<br>
<br>
* And this alone is a false dichotomy; they both have to deal with the<br>
same thing upstream, the distinction is how they manage to pay for it<br>
by charging downstream. Your real problem is that you see yourself as<br>
somehow different from a business in terms of options.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"> </div></div></blockquote><div>Are you sure it's false? If Comcast</div><div>plays games with BitTorrent on my</div><div>link to some remote server, does </div><div>some company with a higher priced</div>
<div>ISP, or its own wires, suffer the </div><div>same fate?</div><div><br></div><div>As for my problem, let's stick with the</div><div>issues... Technology and business </div><div>rather than psychology and innuendo. </div>
<div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div></div>
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