[Elecraft] [Bulk] OT: Verizon's response to Net Neutrality: in Morse code!!

[Phil Hystad]

I am all for net neutrality.  I certainly don't want the bandwidth to be carved up into toll lanes like the what is happening to all the commuting roads around here (Puget Sound Region).  Maybe good for commuters but no good for everyone else who shares the limited lane space.

As for 100 MB downloads in my lifetime comment.  I just did a speed test (speedtest.net) and my results are:

      124.39 Mbps download

        12.35 Mbps upload

My service is Comcast cable Internet, cost about $55 per month.  I am a charter subscriber as I signed up for the service when it was first offered in our neighborhood back in the last part of the 1990s.  At the beginning when I first signed up, it was about 5 Mbps download.  Just a year ago, it was peaking at only 50 to 60 Mbps download.  Always getting faster.

Comcast is fearing Google Gigabit network technology.

P.S.  back in the mid-1970s, I was a systems programmer doing network comms work with the ARPAnet at a research lab at Ames Research Center (Mountain View, CA).  This was before they renamed it DARPANet and very early in the pre-TCP/IP protocol days.  Even then, even with the slow speeds, I wished that I had that service at home where dialup was still king.

73, phil, K7PEH