<p dir="ltr">It's one thing to contact my ISP and request they block or throttle connections. It's a totally different thing to have that choice made solely by the ISP for the business reason of wringing more money from me.</p>
<p dir="ltr">ISPs can throttle connections without customers permission when a network attack is underway. The FCC new ruling doesn't bar this. </p>
<p dir="ltr">The Republican definition of freedom generally refers only to owners and never to users. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 7, 2015 4:45 AM, "Michael Trausch" <<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">From the point of view of systems and network administrators, what are everyone's thoughts on this?<br>
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On one hand the FCC's rules promote equal traffic, but on the other hand it is quite necessary to be able to control the network lest quality of service degrade. The new FCC rules would seem to imply that all providers must create very large and very redundant links more so than exist in today's infrastructure. Yet that in itself has the power to be used in order to amplify e.g. DDoS attacks.<br>
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I know that I for one rely on the ability to report problems and have the ISP act to block the bad traffic (which is almost never solely directed at me, and almost never originating from my ISP's network).<br>
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