which by taking that away will slow down innovation Where I live, in a semi-rural area with my house about 1400 feet from the nearest main road, we have no access to wired broadband.
The telco and cable company have told me, (albeit politely) to pound sand, I'm not getting a broadband connection as far into the future as they can see it.
So I'm stuck with satellite or wireless internet, with data caps that make anything other than web surfing or E-mail unavailable. Stream a movie? Yeah, maybe once a month, with a break for buffering every ninety seconds or so.
So when the broadband companies start whining about how they won't be able to "innovate", I find myself here:
I get my web access through my apartment house network.
It used to be very fast.
Unfortunately, many of the residents here are contract software engineers, many of them Asian, and they use wireless routers.
Our administrator used to be able to isolate and block the worst bandwidth offenders.
Now, apparently the routers are so sophisticated, they disguise themselves, and the admin is never completely sure which apartments are sucking up all the bandwidth.
For the last month, I’m lucky to get a 250KB download average.
I’m not sure net neutrality can make my connection any worse unless it shuts me down altogether.