A list of ways to “Break the Internet” for the 48 hours before the FCC vote

Re:A list of ways to “Break the Internet” for the 48 hours b... by mr_spothawk on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @07:14PM (#15910801)

> What if the electric company charged more for every type A connection you wanted?

This actually happens (in some sense). If you want tons and tons of electrical juice, you pay more for it in 1-phase, 2-phase, 3-phase options.

(I am not a power engineer, but I live in a warehouse with 2-phase power which we "need" & use for welding, running expensive equipment, etc...)

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Re:A list of ways to “Break the Internet” for the 48 hours b... by SilasX on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @07:23PM (#15910855)

Wait, there's a system that works like that? Including continuing to draw (while others die) in case of brownouts?

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Re:A list of ways to “Break the Internet” for the 48 hours b... by NickNameNick on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @10:58PM (#15911918)

Sort of. When generation is unable to keep up with demand, and the generators can't maintain frequency keeping, the grid can go into load-shedding mode. Progressively disconnecting consumer sections until the generators can keep up. The segments that have hospitals will tend to be the last to go.

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Re:A list of ways to “Break the Internet” for the 48 hours b... by SilasX on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @02:59PM (#15917107)

Right, but that doesn't sound like (an analog of) the proposal under discussion which would be "anyone, so long as they pay the uniform rate, gets the hospital treatment during brownouts".

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Re:A list of ways to “Break the Internet” for the 48 hours b... by jacoblambda on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @11:10PM (#15911961)

Well there are dedicated lines when you need more than a certain amount of power. As for brownouts, they can promise priority in repairing power outages but at that point the client is expected to have backups or UPSes of their own

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