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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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When I met th'POPE back in '58, I scrubbed him with a MILD SOAP or
DETERGENT for 15 minutes. He seemed to enjoy it ...
(Score: 2, Interesting) by mobydisk on Monday March 12 2018, @03:22PM (4 children)
Network Neutrality has nothing to do with this at all. The article confuses "Title 2 classification" with "Network Neutrality." It states that once Comcast is no longer under Title 2 classification, the complaint process will change and Cogent will no longer be able to file complaints with the FCC against Comcast.
I am frustrated with the barrage of articles that try to tie Network Neutrality to every internet issue. Many people are against network neutrality because they can't figure out what it means. So throwing the phrase into unrelated articles just muddies the water even further. So the next time somebody associates NN with "heavy-handed regulation" you'll know why. It's because reporters take every opportunity to use the phrase.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday March 12 2018, @06:49PM (1 child)
Please explain the difference.
(Score: 1) by mobydisk on Wednesday March 14 2018, @01:40PM
Title 2 is a legal classification that allows an entity to be regulated more strictly by the FCC. It was generally applied to companies that ran telephone wires, as that was considered critical infrastructure. Those companies are regulated monopolies, get federal funds to lay the wires, and the FCC set the prices that they can charge. That's how rural Americans get telephone service: it wasn't actually profitable for the telephone companies to do so. Title 2 basically forced them to provide it at a fixed price, and subsidized them accordingly.
Network Neutrality is the principle than an ISP should not alter your network traffic. It's kinda like free speech on the internet.
The relationship between the two is that some telephone companies were pushing back against the FCC neutrality rules saying that the FCC could not mandate Network Neutrality for a service that was regulated under Title 1. The Title 1 regulations were too loose to allow that. I'm unclear here. But the FCC moved ISPs under Title 2 so that there was no question about this.
(Score: 1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 12 2018, @07:03PM (1 child)
net neutrality is the only thing giving title 2 regulations to isps. it doesn't quite classify them as title 2 carriers, but no title 2 protections are provided by any other regulation
so you're technically right, but what you're saying is dead wrong. congrats.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 13 2018, @12:28AM
BZZZT! Wrong!
Please actually have just a basic understanding of what you're talking about [wikipedia.org] before blathering on with a steaming pile like you've done here.
Thank you. Peace out, Troop!