Is Verizon Already Slowing Netflix Down?

hondo77 points out a blog post by Dave Raphael, who noticed some odd discrepancies between two different Verizon broadband connections he has access to. His personal residential plan and his company's business plan both went through the same Verizon routers, but his residential plan is getting unusably slow speeds to places like AWS. He suggests that Verizon is already waging a war on high-bandwidth services like Netflix after the recent court decision against net neutrality. His discussion with a Verizon service representative seems to confirm this, though it's uncertain whether such an employee would have access to that information.

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Re:Your task: explain how Net Neutrality stops thi

[timeOday]

What will stop Verizon from doing this? My canceling my phone service and telling them I'm switching to T-Mobile because of cloud throttling.

I almost admire your optimism.

Re:Your task: explain how Net Neutrality stops thi

[benjfowler]

I guess "Slashdot Beta Tourette's" is the winter bug going around this year...

Re:Your task: explain how Net Neutrality stops thi

[OakDragon]

We made one, but the data being returned kept dropping out for some reason.