Speed doesn't matter, Congrestion matters. You can have all the "speed" you need, but if the network is congested it doesn't matter. I could have a 10Gig link, and it wouldn't matter if somewhere between me and the other end, it is congested.

You can have your 80 MBS Cable connection, and be able to pull the full 80, but if you're congested down the line, speed doesn't matter.

Here is a test, set up a BitTorrent of some popular Movie ISO, set it to FULL SPEED to your desktop/laptop. Then setup a console (XBOX) to Netflix, and see how good your Netflix is.Now run your Speedtest while watching a movie, downloading a torrent at the same time. Your "speed" doesn't matter, and your SpeedTest will reflect that you're not getting your 80 MB speed, but that is not accurate, because you are.

Filed under "what could possibly go wrong"

So, you can't stick a 5 pin connector into a six pin hole?

And you have more faith in users than I do.

Looking at the Wikipedia Article and the images for the different pinouts for the M.2 Specification, I have serious concerns about the ability to inadvertently flipping the cards, and inserting them upside down. Take a look at the B vs M configuration, which is exactly a mirror of each other.

UNLESS there is part of the spec that I am not seeing about another notching somewhere, the ability to flip these over and inserting them wrong is going to be a huge issue. And looking at all the examples on the page, I don't see anything to mitigate against inserting these upside down.

Speed rarely matters.

Speedtest and other such metrics often fail because the ISP codes routing to support better than real results.

What really matters is capacity of the whole network. Does the network itself route efficiently for all protocols and destinations. Speed is just one indicator of capacity, but isn't the be all, end all measurement.

At work, I sit on the end of a Gig pipeline out to the internet, Capacity is fine. Speed doesn't indicate what the capacity limit is. As long as you have capacity, speed is not ever going to be issue. The problem is when Capacity is near max, the speed suffers (symptomatically), however it is still possible to have speed tests succeed when capacity is impacted by watching for speed tests and giving network priority to those, while neglecting regular traffic, giving the appearances of speed where capacity is at limit, producing inaccurate results, "my speed is fine, but Netflix is still buffering"

Give me real monitoring tools, and I'll show you where the network problems are, and it is rarely "speed".

So, you're supporting the lowering of health care costs by creating worse healthcare system? That is quite an admission.

"allows more" means "not all of them" and means "veterans are still at the mercy of our decisions"

And it was in direct response to the outcry from the public after the politicians didn't do anything other than lip service to the problems being exposed.

The fact is, the VA system still sucks, still has inordinate wait times for those that do not have the "get out free" card outlined in the news account you gave.

My actual solution would be to require congress to use the VA as their sole service provider. THEN you'd see real improvement.

Do not put words in my mouth. Government can do things right. Just not nearly the amount of things people want government to do, even if it is the worst possible thing.

The whole VA thing can be fixed, simply, by allowing Veterans to get treatment in a normal hospital. But that doesn't allow our Politicians to "look" into the abuses and "fix" the problem with ... more legislation!

Which is why the municipality should own the last mile infrastructure, just like it owns roads. Building a COLO is like having a highway to the city, where UPS, USPS, FedEX and private taxis can all use the same roads.

Fiber isn't Telco. Comcast can't have it both ways, say it is Telco and not Telco at the same time.

I agree that fiber is not Telco, it is data network. A municipality that says "we're building our own infrastructure" and allow any service to run across that infrastructure (think Roads and trucks), would win. Just build the damn last mile out right and solve the problem.

Reality on the ground can change, if enough people actually want it to change, and there is leadership strong enough to walk it through to the end. I'm offering my solution, it is cookie cutter easy, it just takes one city to set it up to prove it works. And it will work, because it is simple fix. Build the fiber out to every home, to a COLO. The rest can be handled by fees of those that use the service, and the providers.

Last mile is not a natural monopoly. Last mile is just like streets and sewers (municipal), and solvable without Federal legislation. You bring fiber to the house, municipally, you solve the problem. Don't let a private enterprise have exclusive rights to the municipal infrastructure.

It is solvable. I have a plan that works. It is just that nobody wants to even try it.

No, when liberals want laws to prevent corporatation X from doing business thing Y, it is the start of the process that allows Corporation X to petition government to prevent Corporation Z from doing things that Corporation X doesn't like.

Libertarians realize that most of those laws, restricting otherwise legitimate business practices simply because "I don't like what they are doing" allows for all sorts of interference into the free and open marketplace.

Mind you, there is no need for Net Neutrality laws at all, if you solve the last mile problem, and give people a real choice. In addition, you're also opening up the market to new products and services we can't even imagine.

Solving the problem where it is, always works best. The problem isn't national problem, it is last mile (in this case)

Again, the problem is that you have people passing laws trying to solve problems at the Federal level that can easily be fixed with some foresight at the local level. Yeah, it isn't uniform there, but rather than having "one size fits all" that doesn't work the same in NYC as it does in Casper WY.

This is why Libertarian view of the world is best, because we don't get crappy laws that hurt everyone, simply because a few people want them. Bullshit laws are created by the same process that Net Neutrality laws were, and they interfere with businesses all the time. And often because someone said "I don't like what ________ company is doing*, we must have a law to stop them".

*Anti competitive Comcast vs Netflix

I don't like what Comcast did to Netflix anymore than the next guy. I just hate what government does in response worse. Fix the damn problem where it exists, in the last mile, and solve the problem forever, without a single federal law, rule or regulation being created. Laws that will remain on the books, long after their usefulness ends.

VA is symptomatic of government run healthcare, where the patients have no choice. The problems at the VA are not unique to the VA. It is what I call "Universally Bad Healthcare".