Comments on: DSL, cable providers spar with Vonage

Internet phone providers want the feds to regulate Internet "neutrality." Cable companies and DSL providers say it's unnecessary.

[ORinSF]

Let free speech and the market prevail

Any ISP's primary incentive is to please their customers. If they limit their customers' abilities, they will lose customers, this much is clear. (And the landscape will only grow more competitive over time...)

The danger of such proposed laws is that they amount to government-managed speech. Requiring a bookstore to stock every book might be called "fair speech" but it's certainly not free.

Ditto the ISP's. They have the First Amendment choice as to what goes over their wires, just as a bookstore can choose what it stocks.

The ISPs would be fools, of course, to limit sites for their customers, and they show no signs of doing so. Let's address problems that exist, instead of imagined conspiracies.

[gggg sssss]

already happening in Canada

Telus blocked a website set up by their striking / locked out enmployees, Rogesr and Sympatico are talking about providing priority to their own VOIP service. Slimebuckets

[Stating]

Change The DNS, Change The IP Port

I haven't found a corporation yet that could outsmart me on consumer technology. If your ISP is favoring one site over another, then change the DNS server to someone else. You can also use a free program like Treewalk* to cache your DNS and spread it over a series of alternate DNS servers.

If your VoIP service is being disrupted by your ISP, then try changing the service port in the program's software config. Services like Skype will let you run over port 80, which your ISP cannot block.


* http://www.ntcanuck.com

[Andrew J Glina]

Thank

Treewalk looks good.