Saturday, February 22, 2014
The FCC wants to require the ISPs to show if the delays are due to inevitable congestion or created to extract fees from content providers.
Even when they did to register you for more than adequate plans with their Internet service providers, many customers of cloud popular services such as Netflix meets seeds like frozen screens on the movies streamed.
Indeed, in its last update of its reports of speed ISP, Netflix has a trend to slower speeds of some providers, including Verizon and Comcast. But why? ISPs blame inevitable congestion at various points in the network. Yet some critics believe that this is part of a plan calculated by ISPs to force content providers to pay.
Get the means of response data, but ISPs do not reveal data, or that they must. This change was one of the objectives of the federal Communications Commission Tom Wheeler president when he urged the FCC yesterday to try again to write new rules, popularly called "net neutrality" rules, which generally prohibit ISPs blocking or slowing down of the different forms of data or charge extra to deliver more quickly.
His call comes one month after a Federal Court of appeal blocked the most recent attempt by the FCC to develop such regulations (see "Net neutrality Quashed: new pricing plans, regulatory and business models to follow"). Currently, it is legal for ISPs to try to collect fees of the parties like Netflix to ensure fast data delivery, although they do not in practice.
The subject exploded earlier this month, when an engineer in a Texas security company has collected data showing an extremely slow service from the site of his company, which is based on Amazon Web Services, despite the robust Internet connections in his home and office. He accused its supplier, Verizon FIOS, slow down the Amazon service deliberately. Verizon has denied this, saying congestion was to blame.
Netflix declined to comment at MIT Technology Review, although previously it has blamed slow down active, or limitation, for slow speeds, known by its customers.
In fact, it is difficult to determine whether slowdowns are caused deliberately or just too much traffic. The Internet is a set of smaller networks, which connect between them at junctions often referred to as peering points level. Depending on the model of traffic at any given time, some of these interconnections may become clogged.
Today, critics complain, it is difficult to monitor it because the arrangements between Internet service providers are not regulated, the agreements that govern them are not public and data are kept secret. "We have a huge problem that the FCC doesn't currently have access to the data," explains Susan Crawford, Professor of law at Harvard University and Co-Director of the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society. "You want to be able to demonstrate that all other explanations for Netflix insufficient experience - experience YouTube or Amazon Web Services experience - can be excluded out, and that the reason for the bottleneck lies under the control of the network operator."
Wheeler seemed directly in this regard, calling for a "true transparency in the way in which Internet service providers manage traffic." His statement added that data must be sufficiently detailed to give content providers ' technical information they need to create and maintain their products and services and to evaluate the risks and benefits to embark on new projects. ''Ben Scott, a researcher working on measurement of M - Lab data, a research consortium which follows the overall Internet performance and limitation, said researchers are trying to make their own detective in the interval, but there is still no result.
A Verizon spokesman said in a press release of the company at the beginning of the month: "we treat all traffic everything also, and that has not changed. '' Several factors can influence the speed of a customer experience for a specific site, including the site servers, how traffic is routed over the Internet, and other considerations. »
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