Thursday, July 27, 2006

The end of the internet, Network neutrality

Check out this video first

Network neutrality, assuming you read the article, is basically network favoritism which is happening incidentally by 2 major ends of the node, users and websites. How? Well as a user you decide on the speed you want by paying a prearranged price to the internet provided thus getting the internet speed you bought. Eventually some people get 512k others get 128k. You get what you paid for so the network favors that who paid more.

Websites also practice favoritism. Youtube.com for example decides on which region of the world gets served more. In other worlds they allocate most of their bandwidth to US based customers, which only make sense, leaving the rest of the world with slow limited bandwidth. Where is your neutrality now?

Why when it comes to ISPs they can’t favor anyone? Isn’t it their network? Why cant they decide who gets more bandwidth?

If you want neutrality go build your own egalitarian network!

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