Chapter 7

    My stance on net neutrality is that it a right for everyone. It's true that some things the internet is being used for aren't necessary. It is the fact that it can be used for anything that makes the internet so profitable. If there is one thing that I have learned in this class, it is that advertisements on "non-necessary" sites pay for a great deal of business' expenses. If there were restrictions set on the priority of importance, anyone who wants to use the internet for recreational uses, most likely the primary "clickers" of those ads will have slower access. This could lead to them getting upset and using the internet less often and less clicks on those advertisements leading to less profits for companies utilizing that. In that sense, it is a lose-lose situation for the general public and businesses. Priority regulations would basically turn the internet into mostly a business tool taking away one of the biggest forms of entertainment for millions of people. This is why I believe that net neutrality should stay intact because if it does not, we will be moving backwards in terms of the internet.
    This week I skimmed the chapter (read paragraphs with bold print words) and then we took a paper quiz on Tuesday. We then listened to the TA (I can't remember his name) talk about all the different networking terms from the chapter. After that we broke up into groups and each talked about a topic of networking  explaining what it was, what the advantages are, and what some possible challenges would be. On Thursday we listened to the lecture while using clickers to answer questions. I really liked how that went and I would like to do that again since I'm not much of an outgoing person in the classroom. Technically I didn't accomplish this task, but Justin sent in the letter from Google getting formal permission from our company to do the group project. Finally, today I am typing out my journal for week 6.
    This week was a wealth of knowledge for me. I have always wanted to know what a lot of these networking terms we have discussed meant, but didn't want to take the time to individually look up every one of them. Just some of the terms that I learned are TCP/IP which stands for Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol, the set of rules used to define the way data moves from one place to another, TCP being the entire length and IP being the movement between nodes.Another important term I got a better understanding of was IP addresses. IP addresses are used to specify a device to which information or data is sent to. An IP address consists of four strings of numbers ranging from 0-255. We as a world community have actually run out of IP addresses and must now implement IPv6 which adds more strings and numbers to make over a quadrillion addresses. That is where I will wrap this blog up. There are many other terms that I have learned this week but those two were the most interesting to me and was something I have wanted to know for a while.