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Study: Major ISPs Slowing Traffic Across the US

Posted by Soulskill on from the no-really-you-don't-say dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A study based on test results from 300,000 internet users "found significant degradations on the networks of the five largest internet service providers" in the United States. This group includes Time Warner Cable, Verizon, and AT&T. "The study, supported by the technologists at Open Technology Institute's M-Lab, examines the comparative speeds of Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), which shoulder some of the data load for popular websites. ... In Atlanta, for example, Comcast provided hourly median download speeds over a CDN called GTT of 21.4 megabits per second at 7pm throughout the month of May. AT&T provided speeds over the same network of of a megabit per second." These findings arrive shortly after the FCC's new net neutrality rules took effect across the U.S.

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  1. BUT I have an "unlimited" connection! by bobbied · · Score: 0, Troll

    You cannot throttle me, I have unlimited usage, it's in the contract! Quick, somebody turn them into the FCC for a fine or two.... Oh, you say it's just network congestion? Fat chance that's true, I want my NETFLIX to stream at the full 4K resolution or else.....

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  2. Not surprising... by kenh · · Score: 0, Troll

    The FCC has removed incentives for monopolistic ISPs to increase backbone network capacity since they are not allowed to derive any additional revenue to offset the cost of those investments...

    Local governments authorize geographical monopolies, and the federal government says that ISPs can't charge content providers for faster service, so what is the motivation for improvements?

    What you wanted was competition, instead you settled for net neutrality, solving a non-existent problem and changing the nature of the Internet to a heavily-regulated telcom service, so that it would remain as it was before regulation.

    You changed the very nature of the Internet, in order to save it - reminds me of something a previous President said - he had to violate free market principles to save the free market... And oh how you all laughed when he said it, now you borrowed his logic.

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    Ken