Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Net neutrality demise Date: 28 Nov 2017 09:29:21 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <20171121172949.029d3854.rsw@therandymon.com> <87r2sjszgp.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net k8GxMDvOeSHWOZbb8j9vzw23i4zAmTqtCqAFbeEQ40mYrkn5sM Cancel-Lock: sha1:dY0ufmajbAgrA9WIYciaqmdPVWo= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:15040 On 2017-11-28, Mike Spencer wrote: > > Huge writes: > >> Another reason for being glad one does not live in the USA. Still, now >> we'll get to see if the aphorism that "the Internet treats censorship >> as a fault and routes around it" is true or not. > > Does that explain why email I send from my account in NS to my wife [1] > whose address is on another ISP based in Ontario is routed through the > USA? Huh. Not the same thing. That depends on where your ISP has bought bandwidth. > I can't surmise if that sort of routing will give US service/backbone > providers leverage to arm-twist Canadian ISPs into some new and odious > fee structure. In which case it will be worth Canadian ISPs setting up their own bandwidth. IMNHO, the "net neutrality" thing will result in much less traffic being routed through the USA. > [1] Yes, she's two rooms away but URLs or full text for technical > articles don't make for good shouted exchanges, let alone > convivial fireside conversation. :-) Two rooms? I email stuff to my wife who's sitting 5 feet to my left! -- Today is Boomtime, the 40th day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3183 Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.