[Discuss] Https - the solution to net neutrality and ISP monopolies

[mark at buttery.org (Shirley Márquez Dúlcey)]

Could be worse. In my neighborhood the reasonable choices are Comcast,
Comcast, and Comcast.

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
<blu at nedharvey.com> wrote:
>> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org [mailto:discuss-
>> bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of Tom Metro
>>
>> The real answer is that you should cease doing business with an ISP that
>> fails to upgrade its peering points to meet demand. Only with a
>> sufficient quantity of users canceling subscriptions and citing poor
>> performance will they ever change their behavior. (Seems not very likely
>> the FCC will intervene.)
>
> I have much bigger reasons.  Half way through a contract, they remove half the channels I care about, call it a "channel realignment," which leads me to argue with them pointlessly for hours, only to eventually agree to pay $5 more per month to get my channels back, and *then* they hit me with the early termination fee anyway, for terminating my old service and upgrading to the new service.
>
>
>> The big question is who can you switch to? I happen to be shopping for a
>> new home office ISP (see other thread), and although I have the luxury
>> of multiple choices, they're all bad. Both Comcast and Verizon are
>> playing these peering games. RCN?
>
> That's my problem.
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