Does this mean Netflix won’t be as good, or that Hulu+ won’t be as shitty?
I’m not crazy about the government, but I do think they tend to do more good than harm. So for what it’s worth, @hubcapsignstop I don’t think you’re crazy. But we’ll see how things go, and hopefully you’ll be wrong. Even you must hope that.
I think my Internet is like 12.5/1.5 or something so hopefully this all results in more speed for me.
No, it means all that shit will be even better since your ISP won’t be able to deliberately slow down the connection speed.
so what about throttling?
That is throttling.
is it?
Throttling is usually done to user’s, during peak usage times, as opposed to being done to specific site’s. You know ISP’s will still pull that shit.
Same thing. They can intercept packets mid-transmission and do whatever they want with them once they identify what they’re for. That’s why I want to fully encrypt my connection. If they can’t determine what kind of packet it is, then it can’t be fucked with. There’s an interesting talk somewhere about this tool a guy made that makes your traffic look like whatever you want it to. It could be a bitorrent packet going out, but you can make it look like TCP over port 80. Pretty neat stuff.
“hmmm this guy is sending nothing but Syn Ack handshakes over TCP, nothing suspicious here!”
You can get Tor installed on your router, if you so choose. Be prepared for bad online gaming experiences and slow video streaming.
I can see a product here:
All traffic that is not netflix/video streaming, audio streaming, and online gaming goes through Tor.
The trick is catching this at your router, aka a reason to run a Linux machine as your router to do some somewhat complicated stuff quickly.
In addition to what you said, cutting back during peak usage times or to peak users;
they targeted particular sites’ traffic and particular traffic based on a protocol, e.g. bit torrent.
This has been outlawed. They will still try to use it and I hope the FCC will come down hard when they do; I hope they can fine a % of revenue, daily.
The ISPs can see the porn I’ve looked at?
Someone in that office is has seen things that should not be seen.
Glad to see this passed. The ISP’s/telecoms have far too much power and are way too lax with the services they provide sometimes. When I was on AT&T, once they started rolling out their 4G network, my phone became a brick and I was paying $100 a month to them (they also have one of the biggest buildings in downtown Nashville so you’d think the service would be a lot better.)
For as shitty a company as Verizon is in terms of their business practices, their service is really good. Expensive, but good. They can fuck right off with that Morse code statement though. Buncha fucking crybabies.
Apparently they’re putting in Google Fiber here in Nashville so I’m excited to see what possibilities that holds once it goes live.
TOR is NOT encryption.
well, technically it encrypts the headers of packets, if i recall. But mostly it works by separating packets and distrubuting them somewhat randomly through the tor network.
I don’t remember if this has been posted in here or not (I may have even gotten it from here, but too lazy to check). I think it sums up the situation quite well tho.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xI847vQTto&index=22&list=FL4DnEQ2vINuQtISiRNbiZrw
Companies will still throttle because most people will not realize they are paying for a 100 up and only getting 50 at max as is and is usually throttled down to 25 to 30. Hell some games like AW on PS4, the PS4 automatically caps out your connection at 25 to 30 depending on your internet.
Then I am misunderstanding what’s happening, so I looked it up and it is indeed only the header they’re worried about.
The data part should be using the most up to date data encryption methods, e.g. elliptical curve cryptography