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

[jim]

Watch...............your ever increasing speed just hit a wall.

Your example is in support of the government staying out of private
business, yet that is not what you want.

Jim
W6AIM



-----Original Message-----
From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Phil
Hystad
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 7:09 AM
To: Elecraft Reflector
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [Bulk] OT: Verizon's response to Net Neutrality: in
Morse code!!

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

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