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When Slow Downloads Hit an App Developer, Only Comcast Customers Suffered

posted by cmn32480 on Monday March 12 2018, @07:24AM   Printer-friendly
from the tubes-are-blocked dept.

Fnord666 writes:

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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  • (Score: 1) by mobydisk on Wednesday March 14 2018, @01:40PM

    by mobydisk (5472) on Wednesday March 14 2018, @01:40PM (#652361)

    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.