"Net Neutrality is the reason why the Internet has driven economic innovation, democratic participation, and free speech online. It protects the consumer's right to use any equipment, content, application or service on a non-discriminatory basis without interference from the network provider. With Net Neutrality, the network's only job is to move data -- not choose which data to privilege with higher quality service"
Couldn't have said it better myself. This issue came to the fore when the USA company Comcast was revealed to be throttling Bittorrent traffic on its servers. If this were to happen in Sri lanka, the result would be chaos. No more downloading of movies or TV series! A complete and utter disaster! SLT, which most of us use for this purpose, dont seem to be doing this. But Dialog has something called a fair usage policy, about which I read in a PDF file at their site, but here is the interesting thing. Its gone now. The link to this PDF file at their site seems to have been removed. I searched in vain for this document at their site, tried googling it, but to no avail. If you can find this document, drop in the link in the comments.
Anyways, from what I remember, Dialog will be monitoring your internet usage, and if your internet traffic exceeds a certain limit (They had a nice name to this limit in that document) for a given month, during the next month Dialog will cut down on your internet traffic to make up for the extra amount of data you 'spent' in the previous month. I distinctly remember Bittorrent and P2P being mentioned in the 'lost' document, and, I think I remember the gist of that part. What they mentioned was that if the customer is not using any Bittorrent or P2P applications, the user need not worry about their internet slowing down. Here is another statement which is mathematically equal to the previous statement: If you dont have sex, you wont get STDs. And that statement is bound to stop all us males in our tracks (or our underpants, depending on your personal situation). And come to think of it, the traffic limit was somewhere around 1Gb (I'm not sure about this).
As far as I am concerned, net without Bittorrent or P2P is like Sri lanka without its politicians. Wait, I think I got that wrong. Sri lanka without its politicians would be heaven, Bliss, Nirvana, whatever you might wanna call it. To rectify my above mistake, net without Bittorrent or P2P is like..... me without my essentail body parts? not as cheesy as I would like, but it'll do for now.
Couldn't have said it better myself. This issue came to the fore when the USA company Comcast was revealed to be throttling Bittorrent traffic on its servers. If this were to happen in Sri lanka, the result would be chaos. No more downloading of movies or TV series! A complete and utter disaster! SLT, which most of us use for this purpose, dont seem to be doing this. But Dialog has something called a fair usage policy, about which I read in a PDF file at their site, but here is the interesting thing. Its gone now. The link to this PDF file at their site seems to have been removed. I searched in vain for this document at their site, tried googling it, but to no avail. If you can find this document, drop in the link in the comments.
Anyways, from what I remember, Dialog will be monitoring your internet usage, and if your internet traffic exceeds a certain limit (They had a nice name to this limit in that document) for a given month, during the next month Dialog will cut down on your internet traffic to make up for the extra amount of data you 'spent' in the previous month. I distinctly remember Bittorrent and P2P being mentioned in the 'lost' document, and, I think I remember the gist of that part. What they mentioned was that if the customer is not using any Bittorrent or P2P applications, the user need not worry about their internet slowing down. Here is another statement which is mathematically equal to the previous statement: If you dont have sex, you wont get STDs. And that statement is bound to stop all us males in our tracks (or our underpants, depending on your personal situation). And come to think of it, the traffic limit was somewhere around 1Gb (I'm not sure about this).
As far as I am concerned, net without Bittorrent or P2P is like Sri lanka without its politicians. Wait, I think I got that wrong. Sri lanka without its politicians would be heaven, Bliss, Nirvana, whatever you might wanna call it. To rectify my above mistake, net without Bittorrent or P2P is like..... me without my essentail body parts? not as cheesy as I would like, but it'll do for now.
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Dialog calls that Fair User Policy (FUP). To be it's more like a Fucked Up Policy.
Why would anyone get a 1mbps broadband connection only to download 4GB. At least they should raise that limit to something realistic lol
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