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Re: Google: We Want You To See When Your ISPs Do Tricks On You

Carl Zenmaier — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:17:35 -0000

all I want to say is ISP in Canada are lying at 100% on the bandwidth advertising.
there's a double game from them, they know that 95% of people using internet don't know internet technical terms. how many people don't know the difference between Kbps and Kbit and Kbytes ?
anyway, I'm just fed up because I left Videotron (too expensive and Gb extra abuse) to try independant companies, and i'ts worst. In 3 months I tried
- Acanac-inc, down speed ok, up speed half of advertising, no connection to servers that check dns reverse lookup
- Colbanet, big big bullshit, they sell line as ADSL2+ and the reality is 2,5Mbps/s down and... 100Kbps/s up !!!!
- Videotron, they charged me 3 month of up to 100Gb download transfer allowed, and it's 7.95$ the gb more !!!
I working as developer for internet since 10 years noow, and I'm REALLY disgusted how the internet interests evolve.... finally it's always the same... A big revolution is needed

Re: Google: We Want You To See When Your ISPs Do Tricks On You

Required Name — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:17:07 -0000

Of course, Google censors search terms by country and spies on your g-mail, so they aren't exactly neutral and open themselves.

Re: Google: We Want You To See When Your ISPs Do Tricks On You

menehune — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:17:39 -0000

I ask you this question?
Why have broadband when the ISP are throttling and/or going to charge additional fee's on band with usage?
I remember ads by these ISP use use to download your favorite video, etc.
These ISP claim with no hard facts so far their claim that 5% of their users are taking all the band with.
Just like the MPAA claiming they lost 6 BILLION US DOLLARS due to piracy; yet evidence has come out that number was just pulled out of a warm and dark smelly place.
I would have the ISP back up their complaint with true factual proof.
The main reason I guess at is they have over sold their systems and do not want to spend money to upgrade band with.

Re: Google: We Want You To See When Your ISPs Do Tricks On You

5942 — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:44:43 -0000

Google is in bed with Big Brother :)

Re: Google: We Want You To See When Your ISPs Do Tricks On You

Dan Smith — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:18:55 -0000

I applaud Google's efforts.

Throttling is not neutrality.

On the other hand, paying your ISP for a certain size "GB lunch" per month rather than "all you can eat" is fair as long as no individual exchange is limited.

Yesterday I checked my speed with Hawaiian Telcom via the Stanford site and found it to be 1.4 Mbps, half the promised rate of 3.0 downlink. Later in the day it was 2.6. That's not too far off.

The uplink speed was a little higher than the promised 0.75 Mbps.

Re: Google: We Want You To See When Your ISPs Do Tricks On You

Neo — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:54:34 -0000

oh, look, Corporate America is trying to control/own the Internet. i'm shocked!! they LOVE Freedom, but only their Freedom, not the American People's Freedom. that's what this country is becoming, an Aristocracy that our Founding Fathers and the U.S. Constitution was set up to prevent.

Re: Google: We Want You To See When Your ISPs Do Tricks On You

Ling — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:59:08 -0000

Much as I'd like to say that Google is doing this out of the kindness of their hearts, it ain't so. They see their own plan to control everything up and down the internet food chain being threatened, and they'd like to see the net neutrality debate killed before it crimps their style.