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Re:F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as ... by pavanky on Monday February 02, 2015 @02:54PM (#8986470)
Bytes are bytes.
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Re:F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as ... by Terr_ on Monday February 02, 2015 @06:25PM (#8987825)
Not disagreeing with the basic idea, but there's also latency and peak throughput.
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Re:F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as ... by skylan_q on Monday February 02, 2015 @02:59PM (#8986519)
It delivers more than just bytes. It's communication in different forms for different purposes. On the other hand, when water is delivered it's the same water here or there.
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Re:F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as ... by angersock on Monday February 02, 2015 @03:49PM (#8986850)
And what form does that communication take?

Bytes.

As for the water, once delivered it is used for drinking, for washing, for cooling, for watering...but it travels, unmolested, as water being commonly carried.

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Re:F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as ... by pbz on Monday February 02, 2015 @05:17PM (#8987393)
"different forms for different purposes" -- no it's not, it's all bytes. The ISP should not care or know what the purpose of those bytes are. The same way the electric company doesn't care what I plug into my outlets.
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Re:F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as ... by ericd on Monday February 02, 2015 @04:19PM (#8987061)
The electricity certainly gets used for lots of different things.

UDP and TCP is what I want my ISPs concerned with, not what I'm doing with those packets.

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Re:F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as ... by Taniwha on Monday February 02, 2015 @04:52PM (#8987268)
no even that's too high - your ISP shouldn't be dealing with UDP or TCP (or anything else) - they should route IP packets and be done with it
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Re:F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as ... by ericd on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @02:52AM (#8989318)
Heh well, may help with QoS, but I guess that we've seen what a slippery slope that can be.
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Re:F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as ... by maccard on Monday February 02, 2015 @03:20PM (#8986667)
Telecoms are also classified as utilities.
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