Viper
16-04-2008, 08:56
Virgin Media (mine and 3.5 million other UK internet users' ISP) isn't the best friend of users in general. They have been known to openly announcing that they throttle "unwanted" traffic (P2P), and are now on a new direction that might threaten the WoW-ping for us online players.
In order to gain as much money as possible, while expanding the broadband infrastructure as little as possible, they are now contacting individual content providers (http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitaltv/a93556/virgin-media-ceo-attacks-net-neutrality.html), bullying them to pay up or having all of the Virgin Media subscribers getting a slow connection to their services. This would of course discourage Virgin Media subscribes from visiting that particular site.
Virgin Media CEO Neil Berkett (picture) warned that public service broadcasters who choose not to pay for faster access to Virgin's subscriber base would end up in "bus lanes". This, of course, goes against all that "net neutrality (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality)" stands for, and the ISPs suddenly take a big step into our houses, and interests.
If, or rather when they contact Blizzard, we can probably count on the fact that Blizzard won't budge for petty threats, which would mean that the WoW players will end up in the crossfire. That's just bad luck if you live in an area with no ISP competition...
Source (http://www.worldofwar.net/n/412514/virgin-media-to-shaft-wow-players)
If it turns out to be true then VM you are bunch of money grabbing *beep* :mad:
I will have no choice but to pay BT a fortune to fit a phone line then I guess I will have to take the Sky offer :mad:
In order to gain as much money as possible, while expanding the broadband infrastructure as little as possible, they are now contacting individual content providers (http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitaltv/a93556/virgin-media-ceo-attacks-net-neutrality.html), bullying them to pay up or having all of the Virgin Media subscribers getting a slow connection to their services. This would of course discourage Virgin Media subscribes from visiting that particular site.
Virgin Media CEO Neil Berkett (picture) warned that public service broadcasters who choose not to pay for faster access to Virgin's subscriber base would end up in "bus lanes". This, of course, goes against all that "net neutrality (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality)" stands for, and the ISPs suddenly take a big step into our houses, and interests.
If, or rather when they contact Blizzard, we can probably count on the fact that Blizzard won't budge for petty threats, which would mean that the WoW players will end up in the crossfire. That's just bad luck if you live in an area with no ISP competition...
Source (http://www.worldofwar.net/n/412514/virgin-media-to-shaft-wow-players)
If it turns out to be true then VM you are bunch of money grabbing *beep* :mad:
I will have no choice but to pay BT a fortune to fit a phone line then I guess I will have to take the Sky offer :mad: