NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] Re: Additional or differentiated services
You have to be truly ignorant to claim that VoIP works fine in best effort. http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/06/how-video-streaming-can-ruin-voip-and- gaming/ https://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/07/latest-bittorrent-client-now-with-imp roved-destructiveness/ You don't have to pay $45 or $100 for traditional TV. There are 120-channel deals with HD as low as $30/month ($25 first year and $35 second). I'm not suggesting you're one of these people, but a large number of people who call entertainment content "crappy" are often the same people that steal them over the Internet. My objection to the service wasn't its value, but my concern for my kids. All that TV programming (which is extremely addictive) in the house is detrimental to other activities like reading. I'll just have to limit my kid's TVs another way since I can't get any reliable/quality live viewing on best-effort over-the-top services. George -----Original Message----- From: Larry Press [mailto:lpress@csudh.edu] Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 1:46 PM To: George Ou Cc: 'Richard Bennett'; nnsquad@nnsquad.org Subject: Re: [ NNSquad ] Re: Additional or differentiated services On 8/27/2010 10:44 AM, George Ou wrote: > Telepresence is certainly one example of bypassing the best-effort Internet. Whether or not the best-effort Internet is capable of "telepresence" depends upon the speed and resolution your application requires. Also, the performance of the best-effort Internet and QOS-based Internet change constantly. You would probably have said the best-effort Internet could not support VoIP ten years ago. > Paying $45 for a low quality 1.2 Mbps PPV even only to > have it pause in the middle of a crucial moment sucks. Paying $45 for a bunch of crappy channels that you never watch in order to see a few programs that you want to watch each week sucks too. Larry Press