Net Nuetrality...

Originally Posted by matador

allow companies to charge for more speed. If the governement mandates a minimum Internet speed, every company will raise their prices to the level of the highest plan (If not higher).

At home, our Internet is about 4 Mbps download. That's enough for us. The Internet is not a utility like water or electricity. I can't purchase faster electricity, nor can I get slower water. The current system works great- when I had Internet installed in my office, I had my choice of three vendors (Not counting satellite services). I chose one. That particular vendor had three plan options- ranging from 20Mbps down to 50Mbps down. I chose the 20, because it was all that I needed. 20 is more than enough. If a 10Mbps plan was offered, I would have chosen it.

I fail to see why minimum thresholds need to be set. Need more than 20Mbps download speed? Purchase the 50Mbps plan. Simple.

I have the choice of one vender and the crap works half the time. If it was utility they would not be able to charge me for full time service for half the time. The internet only makes us better as a country the more we enable them to shaft us the farther we get behind the world.

Eric