FWIW, an occasional email has taken hours, or days, to deliver for many
years so I don’t think net neutrality is the cause.

Cliff

On 12/18/18 6:34 AM, Paul Plante run4ity@yahoo.com [ible] wrote:
> Most of the problems with internet postings that have occurred
> recently can be directly linked to the elimination of “internet
> neutrality” that Congress passed.  Without internet neutrality, each
> provider can now prioritize whose messages get sent first and whose
> gets sent last as low priority.  IBLE seems to be on the lower portion
> of the providers lists.   In theory, if you PAY more money for higher
> level service, your message will be moved up the prioritized list and
> sent quicker.  Only problem with that is, “It ain’t necessarily so!”.
>
> Firefighters in California paid highest rate for service during the
> major fires this summer and fall and could not get ANY service from
> Verizon.  Verizon’s answer was simply, if they bought the best, the
> system would have worked.  Not much comfort in that kink of response
> from provider.
>
> Not advocating anything, this  is just explanation of what is going on
> and I see it more every day as internet access is also getting more
> difficult at times.  Toss in the new twist of making snow days
> internet learning days in lieu of make up with additional day of
> school at end of term and the internet highway may be more difficult
> to use.
>
>
> paul plante
>

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Cliff and Lisa Weisse
Island Park, Idaho
cliffandlisa@octobersetters.com