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Re:Battle for the Internet by howard941 on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @01:26PM (#14754467)
> 1) I imagine a hospital that performs surgery via telepresence. This seems a pretty clear area where I would really want the opportunity to pay more, to ensure that the connection between the surgeon and his robot never even suffers the slightest amount of jitter. This is life-and-death, and I can't see why people would object to a right to pay more for higher-priority for this traffic.

Just how would that work across multiple ISPs? The application begs for a circuit.

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Re:Battle for the Internet by newloop on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @06:56PM (#14757391)
The example is a bit contrived. That doesn't change that there are a number of scenarios where you want to be able to have granularity. You don't necessarily want to pay 24/7 for low latency for video calls, bandwidth to stream a VR movie or software updates to run at night.

The ISP game isn't exactly fair as is. The average person have to get a fast connection just so they can get decent access to the services they are already paying for or that is monetizing them.

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