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Not an Apple fanboy by any means, but I have often thought back to something I read about Steve Jobs and the Iphone. We all know he was a kind of dreamer, and one of his early things with the iphone was the concept of no ISP/telephone carrier. According to "them" on the internet (we all know how true this could be) but apparently he envisioned a world where everyone connected to everyone else via their wireless devices in an ad hoc fashion, and there was no need for the carriers. What's interesting to me is seeing this concept come to life in manufacturing plants with automation systems. Wherein there are now places where each and every device (transmitter) is a node on a meshed wireless network, if someone drops out or gets bogged down - no worries, the traffic just reroutes via other devices. It's the same concept as the internet now - but we control the nodes.
Ya bandwidth, and rural areas
But how friggin cool would that be? I hope technology continues to grow in that direction, and we can get rid of the middleman and just obtain our content without the BS.
If you are having speed issues with email or reddit (cat pics), then you need a new ISP. Something isn't working right there. Either that, or your neighbors house is the place to be for new release movies!
As much as people defend torrents (there are a lot more legitimate uses - freeware games, software distribution, fan films, etc.), I don't think anyone can deny that the majority of it's traffic is illegal downloads.
I think torrents can be used for a lot of good stuff. I just would like it if people wouldn't abuse them and cause all the grrr and roar over it. I think Ur_Mom is right about the majority of traffic likely being illegal or questionable in nature.
I can get cat pics okay and the speeds I pay for I actually do seem to get, but I just think that if it weren't for heavy internet users and stuff like abusive torrents, ISPs might be willing to offer more for the same amount of money. Then again, maybe they'd just pocket the extra dollars....
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Ha, check out Chatanooga, TN. I wanted to move there for the internet, but wife vetoed it. Apparently the internet speeds and price aren't enough of a reason to move somewhere
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I agree with that, though if you want to see how bad it can get just look at us up here in Canada back oh 6-7 years ago, throttling and screwing around with data throughput was so bad that the CRTC(FCC eqv), Federal Government, and Provincial governments all got involved and told the ISP's(main Rogers, Bell, Telus, but also Cogeco and a few others) that if they didn't stop they'd start by revoking their telecommunications licensees. Since all but a few of them also own all of the media up here the threat worked fairly well. Rogers itself was excessively malicious when they had sandvine boxes up everywhere. Your torrent speed for say WoW patches might be as low as 8kb/s, one of the reasons there were so many FTP/HTTP mirror dumps back then.
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), new fuel tank/ neck/ lines, and am going to have to replace the catalytic converters and exhaust before March. May I'll probably do new headers and muffler, thinking Borla.Pretty funny how obvious pirating posts aren't even frowned upon here. Keep supporting the good fight