Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse net>]

Naslund, Steve wrote:
> How about this?  Show me 10 users in the average neighborhood creating content at 5 mbps....Period.  Only realistic app I 
> see is home surveillance but I don't think you want everyone accessing that anyway.  The truth is that the average user 
> does not create content that anyone needs to see.  This has not changed throughout the ages, the ratio of authors to 
> readers, artists to art lovers, musicians to music lovers, YouTube cat video creator to cat video lovers, has never been a 
> many to many relationship.

Hmm... my copy of crashplan is reporting 8mps of upload right now. 
Granted, that's not average, but it can be sustained for a while, 
whenever I shut down a virtual machine (Parallels on a Mac, the entire 
virtual image takes a while to back up - not all that uncommon).  I also 
expect that most folks who buy a network backup service just use the 
default settings for when to do backups - which suggests an awful lot of 
backup traffic going on at the same time every night.

Miles Fidelman


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