With the net neutrality ruling, would an ISP contract offer any protection?

[sdifox]

= break out the lube.

Sorry sir access to lube is another two tiers up.

 

[highland145]

Sorry sir access to lube is another two tiers up.

lol...er...wait...crap.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Expect them to. It'll be trivial for them to institute a 'professional VPN plan', paid for by your employer, providing unfettered access to a single VPN endpoint, and shunting those wretched 'users' back into the 128kb/s group where they belong.

Yep, the way I think it will work is that all traffic by default will be 56k. The base package will include popular sites like Facebook at the ISP's advertised speeds and any other site that is willing to pay big bucks to the ISP to be included. Then you pay extra for packages to get access to other sites. Perhaps there will be different tiers so sites can pay a smaller fee to be part of a less popular package.

There may be an full access package as well, but you will pay big bucks for that. They may also have port/protocol based packages. So for an extra $5/mo then ALL traffic on port 1030 for example will be full speed, so you can use that port for VPN. Ports under 1024 will probably be premium and cost like $80/mo, and it will probably not have port 80 and 443 as an option as that would allow you to "cheat" the system.

Of course this is just an example of what they could do, each ISP might have it's own system, but over time they will probably all be the same as each other. Basically they'll experiment until they find what works for them.

 

[madoka]

 

[sdifox]

Where do you store 13 zettabyte?

 

[madoka]

Where do you store 13 zettabyte?

It was a joke.

 

[sdifox]

It was a joke.

I wanted to see a picture of the 13 zetrabyte storage solution