Well, shit... Google Flip-Flops on Network Neutrality

[UselessGhost]

I don't know a single ISP which lets you host servers from your own connection.

[ATRanko]

One of my friend using the same ISP as me was previously hosting more than 3 TF2 servers with at least 30 players and one gmod TTT server and they were perfectly fine with it, though the ISP said that you'll need a static IP addon that cost $50 one time (ISP uses private DHCP IP) in order to do so.

Hell this ISP doesn't even throttle torrents, i can download all my hen- linux distro all at once.

[Johnny on Flame]

Well fuck, that's a very Sensationalist Headline (tm) if I've ever seen one. Every ISP does that, and it has never stopped me from hosting 12+ player servers for me and my friends to play over the weekend.

[elix]

They have to do this. Do you know how many webhosts would commit child murder to have gigabit speed limits for that cheap a month?

Guarantee that Google's caught people trying to run for-profit services on Fiber, we're just not hearing about [I]them[/I] while talking about the reasonable people being caught in the broad prohibitions.

[No_Excuses]

[QUOTE=LordCrypto;41654562]ok heres the dealio

their business model does support it

however, they aren't actually set up to give everyone 1Gbps down and up at all times simply because thats not how networks work

if you start maxing your connection that starts to affect other connections

on regular ISPs that's mitigated because you can't use as much before your connection cannot handle that many players/clients/whathaveyou

not so much with this speed. if you max out google fiber's network serving le epic cat vids, it will affect the quality of service of other people using google fibers[/QUOTE]
So it's not the business model that sucks, it's the network infrastructure. They advertise gigabit internet, but you better nor saturate it or else neighbor Joe's connection goes to shit as well...

[T2L_Goose]

Google isn't fucking magic. Fiber, while awesome, can only handle so much. I imagine if you could host a massive server without affecting anyone else's connection, they would let you, but that's not how it works.

[Kuiper]

[QUOTE=Zeke129;41654444]No consumer ISP allows you to host a server on your home connection. (But tons of people do anyway)[/QUOTE]

This reminded me of the time Comcast accidentally gave me an enterprise connection or whatever it was called. Direct fiber hookup, 250mbit connection. I had it like 8 years ago and it was amazing.

Then they wised up and gave me fucking dial-up quality connection.

[Arid]

If you want to host a server don't buy/use a home connection, they've said this from the start as well..

[Used Car Salesm]

Okay, Google, you're dictating explicitly what people can and can't connect to the internet connection they pay for fair and square. You [I]are[/I] evil now.

[lordcrypto]

[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;41656188]Okay, Google, you're dictating explicitly what people can and can't connect to the internet connection they pay for fair and square. You [I]are[/I] evil now.[/QUOTE]yes the internet connection you pay for fair and square by agreeing to the contract that states google can dictate exactly what you can and can't use with their services

give me a break

they aren't going to shut down your minecraft server, or your ftp server with your porn on it, or your website that gets three hits a month

this allows them to reserve the right to shut you down if you're doing obviously illicit things like colocating servers or running a VPN for people

[DaCommie1]

[QUOTE=Zeke129;41654678]The ToS on mine says not to but I've had techs over to fix some issues and they've mentioned how tons of people do. (He mentioned how he has his own private cloud server setup and wishes the upload speeds were better for it after I asked whether there are any infrastructure upgrades planned in my area)[/QUOTE]

I haven't read the ToS on my current Bell line, but I'm fairly sure if they ever decided to fuck with personal server hosting there'd be a similar uproar to when they tried to ram UBB down independent's throats.

[Unreliable]

The comments from the source's page are horrifying.

[bord2tears]

Please read what google says on this:
128 person minecraft? Cool.
Creating MegaUpload V2? Not so cool.