[BC] The "Net Neutrality" proper position to have ??

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Richard:

WHERE were you accessing the Internet?

Comparing the Internet in a hotel in the European countries you  
mention is not the same as what you find in HOMES in the country.

I have used Ethernet and WiFi in many hotels in the USA, and if my  
home provider gave me the same lousy, slow rates, I would change  
providers.

Japan and Europe have very fast Internet in homes and offices.  A  
friend of mine just went to England, the home of nearly unusable  
telephone service, and he was blown away from the speed of the Internet.

I convinced him to take the phone Cisco VoIP phone off his desk with  
him, and since we didn't know the switch in the office offered PoE, I  
connected him with another friend who had a Cisco power supply for the  
phone.  He had his office phone with him in England, with a US phone  
number.

His VoIP connection sounded great from his office, and he said his  
computer was fast.

In his hotel, not so much.  VoIP was choppy or didn't work.

Even here in the USA, I have nearly 50 MB/sec down in my home, but I  
don't get anything close in a hotel.  Why should I expect it?  I  
don't.  I wish, but I am not amazed when I don't get it.

So, don't think your stays in hotels is ANY indication of how good or  
bad the Internet is in the country you are visiting.

All of the trades report Europe and much of Asia are WAY ahead of us.

Believe them, not your hotel survey.

--chip

On Nov 23, 2010, at 6:38 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 26
> From: RichardBJohnson at comcast.net
>
> Having used the Internet in several European countries, Holland,  
> Denmark, Germany, France, and Belgium, I don't think their speeds  
> are anything like the USA. They are SLOW, not the USA.
>
> Furthermore, their DNS look-ups prevent common access outside of the  
> Common Market countries. Last I was in Denmark, It was still  
> possible to access US facilities if you knew the IP address. For  
> instance, I could not access Comcast or the US version of Yahoo, the  
> two main Email addresses I use.
>
> However, I could access analogic.com where I worked. There is,  
> therefore, no Net neutrality in a "general" sense. Even Google was  
> "Europeanized" and access to the US version was prevented even if  
> one knows the IP address. I had Email clients Email me the IP  
> addresses of my commonly-used access points. Of course, I had to use  
> my analogic.com email address because that was the only thing that  
> worked.
>
> So if net neutral means that everyone suffers at the same 56-kbaud  
> speeds and has their world-wide access limited at the whims of some  
> agencies, then I'm not at all impressed because that is what one has  
> in Europe right now.
>
> Cheers,
> Richard B. Johnson