My current favorite is: toll booths that charge you different amounts depending on your destination. Or, highways with different speed limits depending on your destination.
Seems to me a more apt analogy would be that they lower the speed limit across the board, and then charge drivers more to get the original speed limit back.
A highway intentionally halving its speed limit, and then asking you money if you wish to drive fast (at the original speed limit)
An airline charging you extra if you have a certain brand of products in your checked bag, even though it’s within the weight allowances.
I had in mind something more like a bridge toll. Two people leaving NYC, one going to New Jersey, the other to Pennsylvania. To get over the George Washington bridge, they are charged different amounts.
The bridge authority (Comcast) is in bed with Jersey (Netflix), so they have an incentive to Charge the PA people (Hulu) more and keep the Jersey traffic flowing.
>Seems to me a more apt analogy would be that they lower the speed limit across the board, and then charge drivers more to get the original speed limit back.
That would be a jerk move, but not a violation of road/net neutrality since it applies equally to all.
(I generally don't like how people call every bad ISP practice a violation of net neutrality; not everything bad is a violation.)
In Cleveland, the Great Lakes Science Center sits directly between the stadium where the Browns play, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which are all on the same block. https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=41.508389&mlon=-81.6955&...
Now say the stadium and the Rock and Roll Hall of fame have an agreement where customers get their tolls covered, but the Science Center doesn't.
I commuted the Maine Turnpike for a little over a year, and the difference between naive routing and toll-optimized routing could be five or six dollars a day.
Yea the mid-west toll roads and the Chicago Skyway will charge per segment (I think). The DC metro system and Seattle's Link Lightrail also charges you based on how far you ride (you tap in and out and it calculates the fare based on zones traveled. Seattle just has two zones though).
A lot of transit systems charge by zone, and with network traffic you're really talking about fair relaying between all intermediate hops. The analogy doesn't really work. I don't think I'd try to use it.
These arguments presuppose that rates will go up, and maybe they will. But then that's the real argument: you'll pay more for what you're getting today.