FCC Rules Against Comcast P-to-P Throttling

The FCC has ordered Comcast to stop throttling Bittorrent and other P2P usage by the end of this year. Comcast is "weighing its legal options"...meaning they'll wiggle out of this I'm sure.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/149260/fcc_rules_against_comcast_ptop_throttling.html

 

That offer high bandwidth, but don't want you to actually use it.

 

Lol, you know it

 

Hello,
This is an important step for Internet democracy.
I'm pleased.
Mrk

 

I'm pleased too, for the moment. There's always a chance that this "openess" could backfire. I don't mean that in a 'secretive ISP plot" sort of way, what I mean is, and hopefully someone more knowledgeable with networks can help me out here, is it possible that we could see major slowdowns overall due to not throttling coupled with the massive amount of bandwidth that internet (legal too) media eats up now and is expected to eat up even more in the near future?

If an ISP does not have major funding behind it and/or the will to upgrade their ability to handle all this bandwidth, are we actually going backward instead of forward?

 

Hello,

If they give you 1Mbps, then you're entitled to it 24/7. It's not the user's fault that the ISP expect them, on average to utilize only 1% of their bandwidth. The same goes with infinite mail and such.

They give away supposedly big packages, but can't support them. And when users actually take them up on their word, they start complaining about costs and bandwidth ...

Meaning = they never intended to meet their end of the bargain, and effectively, users are paying 50-100 more per bit of data than they're supposed to.

You get X bandwidth, you're free use it to the max. You paid for it!

Mrk

 

I guess eventually that "unlimited access" will be a thing of the past and they will start charging a set fee for usage over a set monthly limit. It's either that or all ISPs undergo major upgrades to their infrastructure, which many will kick, scream, and claw until actually forced to do so by federal order. I just don't see the validity in their argument that they are suffering from so called "bandwidth hogging" unless they were ill-prepared to deal with it to start with.

 

Good grief, I've got a 20Mbps line here for 40 a month. Back on topic though, this is what's coming to an ISP near you. People will be going over that 40Gb cap in nothing flat, you don't even have to try to go over it on today's web.