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Technology Stocks : InfoSpace (INSP): Where GNET went!
INSP 82.06+0.3%Jan 28 3:59 PM EST
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To: PatrickMark who wrote (9628)7/15/1999 9:59:00 PM
From: GraceZ  Read Replies (2) of 28311
 
If a cable operator is using their proprietary content provider as an ISP only (open to the internet), do you still feel that they deserve regulation forcing them to open the pipes to other ISP's?

 Its not as simple as it appears from first blush. If you go further back on the ATHM thread you will see that @Home will have a high speed fiber backbone with widely spaced servers all over the country that will speed up their content on their cable network. So while you can use any browser (freedom of choice, Coke or Pepsi) and use any page as your home page, their stuff will run faster. It will have the net effect of coraling the user to their sites to a certain extent.
Of course, the other ISPs are free to use these same techniques. Most try to get away with using caching and proxy servers. Anyone who has ever signed onto AOL from a high speed line or alternate ISP, I do this quite frequently, knows that it is their network that slows you down when you are on the Internet. The things in AOL that come up fast are the pages where the graphics are stored locally on your own machine. I've seen many a frustrated AOL user sign off while waiting for a graphic to load. This will happen on ATHM when people, used to the speed of the ATHM content, encounter something from outside this "net within a net".
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