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<strong>Title: </strong> <a href="/link.php?id=32605" target="_blank">NDP calls for net neutrality</a> (click to view)

<strong>Category:</strong> <a href="/news/topic/3-tech" target="_blank">Tech</a>
<strong>Posted By: </strong> <a href="/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=Streaker" target="_blank">Streaker</a>
<strong>Date: </strong> 2008-04-22 16:41:46
<strong>Canadian</strong>

[YOUR_DEAD]

Don't tell me its only the NDP that support this? It would be a shame if all parties don't.

[ridenrain]

It's dumb. Jack might as well call for the elimination of Monday and he'd have just as much credability.

[kenmore]

thats because the providers are screwing customers.. I know someone who has cogeco and every month there is a fee for over use.. on a supposedly unlimited access account.. they should be made accountable..

[hurley_108]

ridenrain ridenrain:

It's dumb. Jack might as well call for the elimination of Monday and he'd have just as much credability.

Jack's the only one on Parliament Hill thinking about more than tax cuts.

[ridenrain]

Jack thinks about lots of things. One and two are good but a lot of the others are populous fluff.
Seriously.. A national party who's platform is to change the rules on gift certificates. What's next.. plastic bags and late dvd rental penalties?

[sasquatch2]

ridenrain

$1:

Jack thinks about lots of things. One and two are good but a lot of the others are populous fluff.
Seriously.. A national party who's platform is to change the rules on gift certificates. What's next.. plastic bags and late dvd rental penalties?

Yeah! Even a stopped/broken clock is on time twice a day!

[Ripcat]

ridenrain ridenrain:

It's dumb. Jack might as well call for the elimination of Monday and he'd have just as much credability.

What's dumb exactly?

Wait till your ISP starts packaging your service like cable and satellite TV....

[DrCaleb]

Ripcat Ripcat:

ridenrain ridenrain:

It's dumb. Jack might as well call for the elimination of Monday and he'd have just as much credability.

What's dumb exactly?

Wait till your ISP starts packaging your service like cable and satellite TV....

Or wait till Google loads like you're back on dialup, because Google doesn't pay your ISP for priority access.

[hurley_108]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Ripcat Ripcat:

ridenrain ridenrain:

It's dumb. Jack might as well call for the elimination of Monday and he'd have just as much credability.

What's dumb exactly?

Wait till your ISP starts packaging your service like cable and satellite TV....

Or wait till Google loads like you're back on dialup, because Google doesn't pay your ISP for priority access.

Heck, we're already seeing it with the throttling of bittorrent traffic, whether it's legal (in the form of CBC programs or Linux distributions or what have you) or not, and even goign so far in some cases to throttling all encrypted traffic whether it's torrents or not in the first place because some torrent clients started encrypting their traffic to defeat older throttles.

Net neutrality is a serious matter, and Jack is right on the money to be pushing it.

[BartSimpson]

kenmore kenmore:

thats because the providers are screwing customers.. I know someone who has cogeco and every month there is a fee for over use.. on a supposedly unlimited access account.. they should be made accountable..

I agree.

Funny, at home I now have 100Mbps for $30 per month and all I really use it for is surfing the web, email, and playing Battlefield 2 (which rocks like hell with this network speed! ).

I asked about limits on it and if I could run a game server (which I am going to be doing sometime in June) and the answer was no and yes. They already gave me a static IP for the server at no extra charge.

What made this all possible is infrastructure. Up until a bit over a month ago all I had was DSL. Now we have fiber optic in the neighborhood (something our City Council pushed) and bandwidth is not at all an issue anymore.

Canada needs to do a similar initiative to get the Canadian internet infrastructure up to speed, negating the whole debate about net neutrality. It's not like you people can't afford it.

[hurley_108]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

What made this all possible is infrastructure. Up until a bit over a month ago all I had was DSL. Now we have fiber optic in the neighborhood (something our City Council pushed) and bandwidth is not at all an issue anymore.

MOAR BIGGER TUBES NOW!

[hurley_108]

THE INTERNETS NOT SOMETHING YOU JUST DUMP STUFF ON ITS NOT A BIG TRUCK!

[hurley_108]

ITS A SERIES OF TUBES!

[BartSimpson]

hurley_108 hurley_108:

ITS A SERIES OF TUBES!