The ECA Keeps Getting It Wrong
It baffles me that ECA (Entertainment Consumers Association) continues to step on their own toes with the net neutrality issue.? If the ECA truly supports video games then they are doing video gamers a disservice by supporting anything to do with net neutrality regulation.
The FCC NPRM proposed last month prevents ANY discremination in applications.? Which means video games will have 0 prioritization. You will have massive jitter in your online games. i.e. lag or queue stacking.? You will have no priority over your next door neighbors 24/7 torrenting, or any other bandwidth heavy applications.? Gaming traffic is very, very small. But its time sensitivity is extremely high.
If you support video gaming, you should not be supporting regulation.? Support neutrality all you want, but support it by using smart infrastructure, not dumb networks that treat everything the same.? Everything on the net is not the same. And applications like video games and VoIP must have priority. If you think the neutrality argument is about blocking websites, you are very misinformed. Find your local network engineer and pick their brain, like I did here: www.digitalsociety.org/2009/11/podcast2/
-nick
[...] to my criticism of the ECA supporting Net Neutrality, which is essentially the same thing that I posted here the other day.? The guy responded with what will always be a typical response.? This is that game traffic [...]