arstechnica.com— Copowi promises to be a new kind of ISP, one built on open-source principles and network neutrality guarantees. But it's not for cheapskates.
Aug 20, 2007View in Crawl 4
Sign up to waste your money..... the moment a bunch of heavy p2p users get there you'll realise very quickly why isp's throttling p2p is a good thing. Except they're not actually able to provide network neutrality anyway because they lease off wholesale providers who they say may implement throttling on their leased lines anyway, and they state quite clearly you're not allowed to use their service to pirate. The only connection to opensource appears to be a free ubuntu cd, which is about the only thing you could use bittorrent to download within their terms of use.
"In the US, the battle over network neutrality has captured the public imagination"Ironically, that's all it's captured. My internet connection works just fine, even though I use it to access services which directly compete with other offerings from my ISP. I'm not sure how rolling in the White House Office of Faith-Based Services and the geniuses from FEMA are going to improve things any.
Well not central to net neutrality, I agree with you in spirit. As the devils advocate, I guess the argument is Comast/Verizon/AT&T own the lines so they do care whats riding on them. When you sign a contract you agree to allow them to shape your network traffic and deny specific activities. While I hate this, I have hard time understanding how the government can tell Comcast/Verizon/whomever what they can do with their own networks...
P2P throttling isn't just about the speed it's about the network resources you need to achieve that speed using P2P.Your car analogy's flawed. If you buy a car that takes up both lanes of a 2 lane road then you've got an approximate analogy, cause you're paying to use the road, and you're arguing that you should be able to use it all to the point where it impacts everyone else.
fkr3Aug 20, 2007
Sign up to waste your money..... the moment a bunch of heavy p2p users get there you'll realise very quickly why isp's throttling p2p is a good thing. Except they're not actually able to provide network neutrality anyway because they lease off wholesale providers who they say may implement throttling on their leased lines anyway, and they state quite clearly you're not allowed to use their service to pirate. The only connection to opensource appears to be a free ubuntu cd, which is about the only thing you could use bittorrent to download within their terms of use.
Closed AccountAug 20, 2007
Goin low fo fo
steamer25Aug 20, 2007
OMG!!!! You mean there's a market solution????!!!!!! no wai
b0rgAug 20, 2007
"In the US, the battle over network neutrality has captured the public imagination"Ironically, that's all it's captured. My internet connection works just fine, even though I use it to access services which directly compete with other offerings from my ISP. I'm not sure how rolling in the White House Office of Faith-Based Services and the geniuses from FEMA are going to improve things any.
s0rce7_Aug 20, 2007
f**k yea I'm switching to this ISP asap. f**k Verizon !!!
oldhickAug 20, 2007
Well not central to net neutrality, I agree with you in spirit. As the devils advocate, I guess the argument is Comast/Verizon/AT&T own the lines so they do care whats riding on them. When you sign a contract you agree to allow them to shape your network traffic and deny specific activities. While I hate this, I have hard time understanding how the government can tell Comcast/Verizon/whomever what they can do with their own networks...
fkr3Aug 20, 2007
P2P throttling isn't just about the speed it's about the network resources you need to achieve that speed using P2P.Your car analogy's flawed. If you buy a car that takes up both lanes of a 2 lane road then you've got an approximate analogy, cause you're paying to use the road, and you're arguing that you should be able to use it all to the point where it impacts everyone else.