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> Every ISP selling tiers of speed, or even having a set speed at all, is modifying your traffic. Seems like you've got a different definition of "modifying" t
by xnzakg 11y ago
> Every ISP selling tiers of speed, or even having a set speed at all, is modifying your traffic.
Seems like you've got a different definition of "modifying" than me.
If a post service decides to send another package faster than yours because the other sender paid for priority, would you say they modified your sending? No. You told them your package doesn't need to arrive as quickly.
Opening and analyzing every package to check if contains a DVD and prioritizing those without can be called modifying your sending though. Especially if they say they improve the DVDs.
- zanny 11y agoExcept that is not how ISP data rates actually work. It is more like the post office tells you it will arrive on X date, and if its late... too bad, "traffic saturation" or "network downtime". But if they have delivery trucks idle and drivers with nothing to deliver "today", your package will just sit in the box for the date is meant to be delivered because you bought your fastest possible speed, not the minimum. If Internet worked like post you would have the situation I describe, which I'm not even advocating for, I'm just saying ISP QoS and rate limiting is traffic shaping.