<story><title>Reed Hastings: Comcast no longer following net neutrality principles</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/reed1960/posts/10150706947044584</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>wmf</author><text>There is some ambiguity about where bandwidth accounting should take place: on the last mile link between the customer and Comcast or the transit link(s) between Comcast and the Internet. Comcast claims that anything coming from a server inside Comcast itself (e.g. Xfinity) should not count against the cap because it causes no congestion; this assumes that the cap exists only to prevent congestion on the transit side. I suspect that this is all just post facto justification, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gst</author><text>Does this mean that I can just limit my Bittorrent client to only connect to peers in Comcast&apos;s network, if I don&apos;t want Bittorrent traffic to count against my quota?</text></comment>
<story><title>Reed Hastings: Comcast no longer following net neutrality principles</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/reed1960/posts/10150706947044584</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>wmf</author><text>There is some ambiguity about where bandwidth accounting should take place: on the last mile link between the customer and Comcast or the transit link(s) between Comcast and the Internet. Comcast claims that anything coming from a server inside Comcast itself (e.g. Xfinity) should not count against the cap because it causes no congestion; this assumes that the cap exists only to prevent congestion on the transit side. I suspect that this is all just post facto justification, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonster</author><text>The obvious next step is for Comcast to start a CDN inside their network and start selling CDN services to other companies, so that material served from the CDN doesn&apos;t count against customers&apos; caps. They can claim that this doesn&apos;t violate net neutrality principles, but the consequences would be the same: Comcast can use their ISP monopoly to keep their foothold in the content delivery business.&lt;p&gt;The real danger to the open internet will come when wireless carriers get in on this action. Since nearly all wireless data plans offer tiny amounts of bandwidth as compared to wired broadband, there&apos;s a much greater incentive for users to use services that won&apos;t count against their caps...</text></comment>