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0 pointsRetric12y ago0 comments

I agree that it's less than ideal but an ISP can always get priority access to there internal network because it's closer to there customers. As long as they need to slow down the entire internet rather than slowing down service X then a customer will complain to the ISP that the internet is slow vs thinking service X is slow.

It prevents optimizing things like speed test.net which is vary common.

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Qantourisc12y ago· 2 in thread

Not when you only have a few high-bandwith providers for some content. One will be the faster then the normal-speed rest. But the consumer will see this as service X is slow, and the fastest one is best.

RetricOP12y ago

If you have a low latency 20mibt connection to the internet then ALL video is fast. Below that you might have a point. However, this says an ISP can only change bandwidth and latency so if you allow one high bandwidth activity say downloading MMO's then must allow all high bandwidth activity. If you have low latency for gaming then you also have low latency for websites etc.

Sure, an ISP may simply chose not to offer high bandwidth to the internet but that's a much harder sell to there customers. And long term laws can change if companies start abusing them.

AnthonyMouse12y ago

> If you have a low latency 20mibt connection to the internet then ALL video is fast.

Just because they sell you a 20Mbit connection doesn't mean you'll always get 20Mbit out of it. Suppose that during peak hours you only get 4Mbit because the ISP's uplink is saturated. Obviously customers would complain...unless the ISP offers extremely low prices to Google, Dropbox, Netflix, etc. to get them all on the pay to play plan and bypass the bottleneck. If the sites 90% of the customers use 90% of the time are fast, the customers will blame the remaining sites for being slow, which forces the sites to pay the ISP. Meanwhile the ISP can raise prices on existing "customers" like Netflix one at a time until they're all paying monopoly rents to the ISP.

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