Nerd Rage

So I've got fast internet... I mean pretty dang fast for internet these days in the US. These days everything I do runs off the net... my phone (Skype), my tv (Hulu, Netflix), all my shopping and of course all my news. If they could find some way to send me power over the internet I would probably have that too. All of this has made me spend tons of time maxamising the speed of my network. I've done tons of work starting with a new gigabit router and QoS. But after it leaves my network it is all up to comcast (my current ISP). Now on an average night both myself and my wife can be found playing WoW... this includes both of us hooked up to Ventrillo as well... and either streaming tv (Netflix) or music (Zune)... all of that and my connection almost never falters.

... The people I play games with on the other hand do not seem to be so lucky. It seams like almost every night people are having connection issues... small hiccups... or even straight up boots from networks. Most the time people just straight up blame their ISP... and in a time to where it seams that ISPs simply do not want to open the flood gates that is the internet I can understand why they would be the first to be blamed. I know that I get letters from comcast all the time complaining about my internet usage and they always seam to play the "irresponsible internet user" card but I mean really could my excessive use of the internet truly be causing the issue? I can't see how. Personally all this whine we have been getting from ISPs these days seem to stem from the fact that there primary line of work doesn't seem to be providing internet. I worked for AT&T for a while and in my opinion it is that they are trying to treat it too much like a phone service... lock it down and charge for usage... But in the days of freely sharing data and a plethora of services that can be provided on through the internet it seams to me that we should look at it less as a service and more of a community... why should your internet connection be something you own rather then something you share. I know that while my systems use alot of bandwidth there is alot that is leftover as well... why is it that I cant share that with someone else or that it could be something that the ISPs can buy back from us? It seems to me that the internet is one of those things better left to its own devices open up the flood gates and see where its balance point is.

... All and all we are seeing more and more connection issues with the internet these days and as we are starting to see more and more people using the internet in their everyday lives I wonder how those people are going to start reacting when all of these control issues come to a head and they start having issues with products they use in their every day life... all Im going to say is the Nerd Rage will be unparalleled.