,,,,rules barring service providers from blocking, slowing access to or charging more for certain content.
If this is true then how was net neutrality bad I wonder though??
I don’t want anyone blocking CONTENT!
Again, I’d like to play devil’s advocate since nobody answered my question. I’d really like an answer to the question if whether providers will now do what Obama claimed they’d do with:
,,,rules barring service providers from blocking, slowing access to or charging more for certain content.
“AT&T and Comcast have blocked and slowed their basic internet service.”
One of our former neighbors was a tight end for a major university and an officer in the 10th Mountain Division before getting married and “settling” down.
About 10 years ago, he and I talked about how slow our AT&T internet was from 3 pm to about midnite and the whole weekend.
We figured it was just slow due to kids at home from school, and people like him and I with offices in our home. We were half right.
I got a call from him one afternoon to go up to his home, as he had an AT&T repair guy with some interesting news. So I went to his home and fairly good size Black and polite AT&T guy was there and very nervous.
When I got there, my neighbor tossed a small metal disc with some holes in it on the kitchen table. He told the AT&T man to tell me what it was. It was apparently a filter to slow down our AT&T DSL service as if it needed to be slowed down.
I asked the AT&T guy if my home had one, and he said yes.
Then my neighbor told the AT&T guy to walk down to my house, about 200 yards away and to remove my filter. Then, the AT&T guy could go back to his home and get his truck.
On the way to our home, the AT&T guy asked if I know who my neighbor really was. I told him about him playing football, they had played against each other. Then, he commented about his military experience and said, “Don’t ever po your neighbor!”
The AT&T guy opened my cable/phone box and removed my filter and gave it to me.
Then, he asked me if I would walk back up neighbor’s home so he could get back into his truck to leave. I brought him inside to my office and he put some coupling cables on the modem and told me to fire it up. I did and from then on the speed was not as bad.
I walked the guy back to my neighbor’s home, and the neighbor wanted to know what happened. I told him and the AT&T guy said goodbye and left.
Shortly, after that I went to Comcast. Their internet was faster, still slowed down after 4 pm and on weekends.
This year I cut my Comcast tv cable and went to Comcast Business for a faster internet and to save over $100/month.
The Comcast Business installer told me that basically everyone on our cul de sac was on Comcast and it would slow down. That our Comcast Business Internet should not be impacted. It is very fast and seldom do I see the little blue circle showing trying to connect. It does a good job streaming tv shows 99% of the time.