[Leaplist] Torrent and filesharing throttling got Verizon spanked

[Fred Moore]

Damien McKenna wrote:
> On Oct 27, 2007, at 2:42 AM, Fred Moore wrote:
>>> OK, lets get this straight.  There's a difference between having
>>> different speed plans for customers to buy, and charging the
>>> *websites* a rate to get faster speeds to the customers.
>>
>> OK lets get this straight.  For a car you can buy a Dodge, Chevy, Ford,
>> Honda, even a Suzuki.
> [snip]
>
> Blocking ports is something else entirely, my point was about allowing
> customers to buy the speed of service they need.  Other than
> bittorrent, which I've not used in probably 3 years so can't comment
> on, I've not seen any ports being blocked by Brighthouse (I'm in
> Sanford).
Without the monopoly everyone would most likely have high speed (very
very cheep), needing it or not is the point I am trying to make.

Sure you are blocked.  I guarantee you port 25 is blocked..   can you
send mail via someone else's server?  or only through their outbound
server?  I will bet you can't even send mail from a mail server sitting
at your house.  The same for port 80 inbound.. bet you can't run a web
service from your house.   Its your bandwidth and they sold you
unlimited 24/7  so why are they blocked?..   If no monopoly existed the
people blocking anything would just fade away into the sunset using a
standard business model based upon best business model in existence fair
and honest competition.. Fred

>
>> In my mind there is a very big difference between good business and a
>> monopoly.  Thats why we pay 10 times the amount everyone else in the
>> world pays for bandwidth.
>
> Ditto for some cellphone services.  In most other countries you don't
> pay for incoming calls.
>
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