Wehe – Check Your ISP for Net Neutrality Violations

Re:Wehe – Check Your ISP for Net Neutrality Violations by specialist on Friday January 22, 2021 @02:27PM (#25875240)

Consumers are not the free riders my bro cares about. It's other companies. Like when he builds out new edge servers which get filled up by YouTube, TikTok, etc. He thinks the sources should pay their fare share.

I'd like to learn what fare means, how to curtail consumer throttling, how yo curtail free loaders (bypassing transit fees), what system would be more fair.

Surely we can design market mechanisms to balance these concerns.

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Re:Wehe – Check Your ISP for Net Neutrality Violations by majormajor on Friday January 22, 2021 @03:52PM (#25876226)

> Consumers are not the free riders my bro cares about. It's other companies. Like when he builds out new edge servers which get filled up by YouTube, TikTok, etc. He thinks the sources should pay their fare share.

Is he letting those sources push content to him for free?

Or are his customers determining what's going through his network?

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Re:Wehe – Check Your ISP for Net Neutrality Violations by nickelcitymario on Friday January 22, 2021 @03:47PM (#25876170)

I don't get it. How do the sources not pay? Don't they pay for hosting and bandwidth? Aren't edge servers an implementation detail that's inherent in providing bandwidth?

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Re:Wehe – Check Your ISP for Net Neutrality Violations by specialist on Friday January 22, 2021 @04:25PM (#25876548)

Me neither. I don't consider my bro a reliable narrator. What I've gleaned is the transit fees were regulated for a while.

It seems to me that Generic ISP Inc would meter all the Netflix traffic and then send them a bill. And if Netflix wants to ensure their end users are getting whatever quantity and quality of bandwidth, the two parties will negotiate.

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