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App developer Panic Inc. knew it had a network problem when customers began complaining about trouble downloading and updating Panic apps.
"Geez, your downloads are really slow!" was the common complaint that started coming in a few months ago, Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser explained in a blog post titled, "The Mystery of the Slow Downloads."
But once the mystery cleared up, it all made sense. Panic and its users were the innocent victims of a longstanding network interconnection battle between cable ISP Comcast and Cogent, which operates a global network that carries traffic across the Internet.
The situation will only get worse once the Net Neutrality appeal process is complete.
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When Slow Downloads Hit an App Developer, Only Comcast Customers Suffered
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 12 2018, @03:20PM
If it were possible to have a free market with infrastructure (which internet is these days), then ISPs who did not have "fast lanes" and "slow lanes" would likely win. Maybe they wouldn't; the invisible hand is capricious, but it generally gives us all a superior product or at least a choice of products that suck in different ways.
However, infrastructure has that strange property we call "natural monopoly." While we will never convince anarcho-capitalists, I would hope that small L libertarians and members of the Libertarian Party in the USA can see the reasons it makes sense for a violently imposed monopoly to provide infrastructure service. We can even have potable water delivery, for example, as a government monopoly, and the government monopoly can rent the pipes out to different water/sewer treatment plant operators. Electricity too. Want to pay more for green energy? Go for it! The transmission lines are maintained by government monopoly. Generation in the free market (and we can come up with different models for providing individual homes compensation for sending excess power generation into the grid, though people here who understand the electricity network better than I do will always remind us this is easier said than done). Roads also. And now communications in the form of TCP/IP pipes, layer 1 provided by government monopoly, and layer 2 services provided by ISP operators on the free market.
Why can't we be more flexible instead of everything socialist and everything capitalist as our black-and-white DuR (Dempublican and Republicrat) team alternatives?