On Apr 21, 1:23*pm, wrote:


That will just be the last nail in the cable company's coffin. The
actual fiber is a common carrier and just like the phone company, the
cable company will be forced to lease their bandwidth to a 3d party if
they can't provide the service the customer wants.
We are really just talking about the last mile anyway.

Actually once people figure out what net neutrality really means I
imagine the law will come around. Once typical home port bandwidths
get up into tens of megs, choking that down to T1 speed won't affect
streaming anyway. I have a 1.5m DSL that does just fine streaming TV.
I can even do some low bandwidth browsing at the same time like these
newsgroups. I only see a problem if I am watching a TV stream and
trying to stream another video feed at the same time. Then it is just
a little stutter in the TV sometimes.


LOL... Then the world shouldn't worry because of what you have
right now... Those websites which allow you to stream TV won't
be around for very long unless they are using your ISP or paying
money to every ISP out there to guarantee that they can deliver
their media content to everyone out there... ISPs can as of right now
(actually like a couple of weeks ago) choose to restrict any traffic
they want that isn't a paying customer of their network... Sure
you are a customer, but you are trying to access commercial
media content you are paying to access from a 3rd party who
isn't paying your ISP to be able to use that ISP's network to
deliver their bandwidth intense content to you for a profit...

That is what Net Neutrality is all about... ISPs were formerly not
allowed to restrict traffic flowing through their network unless it
was
found to be malicious...

As far as "cable company will be forced to lease their bandwidth
to a 3d party if they can't provide the service the customer wants"
is total bullcrap because most markets have more than one cable
provider competing within it... It is not like the phone company
leasing wires to the various multitude of no-tel mini-comms and
3rd party ISPs leasing copper pairs to a specific customer's
premises... Each pair of copper wires in the phone network has
a unique origin point outside of the central office... A cable system
does not... All of the signals sent out on the system go to all
points of the system -- the level of service is determined by what
features are unlocked inside your set top converter box by the
cable company provider...

You can not compare the two systems and say that eventually
the cable companies will be required to lease space on their
systems to 3rd parties because there is no capacity within such
systems to isolate the different carriers from each other like you
can with copper pairs at the phone company...

It is quite clear you have no idea the differences between a
phone companies cable plant and that of a cable company...

It is not "just talking about the last mile anyway" as that last mile
of cable plant without any connection upstream is USELESS...
The 3rd party pays a lot of money to be able to access upstream
connections from the phone company to make its connections...
They can resell the services to you cheaper because they are
able to purchase the services in bulk, for thousands of lines at
a time and can get a better price than single line consumers...

Please get a clue...

~~ Evan