Report on Web-Surfing Speeds Finds Pervasive Throttling

Posted by samzenpus on Monday November 14, 2011 @04:52AM from the slow-down-cowboy dept.

Stirling Newberry writes "New York Times has a report on web-surfing speed tests that their reporter ran using Glasnost, a tool that mimics the bittorrent protocol and measures the results. BT in the UK was among the worst. From the article: 'In the United States, throttling was detected in 23 percent of tests on telecom and cable-television broadband networks, less than the global average of 32 percent. The U.S. operators with higher levels of detected throttling included Insight Communications, a cable-television operator in New York, Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, where throttling was detected in 38 percent of tests; and Clearwire Communications, where throttling was detected in 35 percent of the tests.'"

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First? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-11-14 04:59 · Score: -1, Troll

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I'm sure they'll stop by Kohath · 2011-11-14 05:05 · Score: -1, Troll

Once these ISPs learn that we're entitled to everything we want, they'll finally have to stop throttling us. Then we can continue to consume content without paying the people who spent their lives creating it.
Troll? People really do think they're entitled by Kohath · 2011-11-14 06:05 · Score: -1, Troll

Why is this being modded "Troll"? I'm not trolling. People really do think they're entitled. It couldn't be more obvious.
Throttling bittorrent is an outrage against our entitlement.