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FCC hearing Monday on ISPs' network management practices open to public

article published on 25 February, 2008

If you'd like a ringside seat to a FCC hearing on ISP network management and happen to be in the Boston area on Monday you're in luck. There's a hearing scheduled for 11:00 in the morning at Harvard Law School. It's open to the public and will be attended by all of the FCC commissioners. Assuming you haven't spent the last several months on the International Space Station you're probably ... [ read the full article ]

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ringwar

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25. February 2008 @ 03:06

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And I don't think it is the ISP's business what it's users download. We don't live in CHINA!

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xdgen84

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25. February 2008 @ 09:32

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Glad to see some of this is being addressed, even if it is slow. Oh.. and congratulations on the first post....

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WierdName

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25. February 2008 @ 14:43

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Like the post above said, it's a little slow to be addressed, but it's nice to see action is being taken against comcast. Maybe this will force them to be more honest, or just honest, and maybe this will pan out to get other ISPs to raise their quality of service.

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Ludikhris

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25. February 2008 @ 15:35

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In reality if Comcast was doing what they said they were doing than they were doing what is right by the customer. So much traffic goes through P2P that when it hits peak hours a lot of other users want to use the net as well. Comcast was using network trafficing to allow active users to have bandwidth while the passive P2P users are scaled back for a few hours.

So based on that (which is what they said) they made the best decision available to them. However, I am glad this is going through the judicial system because the whole issue of net neutrality needs to be addressed. If we want net neutrality as legislation then we need to put it in stone now before it becomes and issue and some ISP like Comcast really does abuse their power.

If this goes against comcast don't think it's a free lunch for bit torrent users. Plan on new "data specific" packages to be out following the hearing and those that use massive amounts of data or bandwidth will pay more. Comcast can do that if they want due to a lack of viable high speed options in many of the areas Comcast operates. Don't even say DSL, because if that is an option for you then you really don't care about tapping fast net speeds. For many, cable is variable speeds at best, but it is also the best MB speed per dollar.

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borhan9

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19. April 2008 @ 19:16

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Why do i get the feeling that this is going to be one of those long never ending court battles that no one wins at the end except the lawyers.

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