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I'm not sure anyone wants broadband that can't throttle its bittorrent users a little. Why would your 24MBit/s work slower for bit-torrent than other uses? The
by swombat 17y ago
I'm not sure anyone wants broadband that can't throttle its bittorrent users a little.
Why would your 24MBit/s work slower for bit-torrent than other uses? The whole point of this net neutrality debate is that ISPs have no business deciding which traffic they prefer, much like your phone company has no business deciding which one of your friends you're allowed to call.
- tedunangst 17y agoIf my neighbor is downloading a torrent for 3 hours, it hardly matters whether it arrives in 3:04 or 3:05. But if I'm browsing HN or email, the difference between 0.1 seconds and 1.0 seconds is quite perceptible.
- gte910h 17y agoThey don't throttle those guys a little. They throttle them a lot.
- gte910h 17y agoThe issue is that network advertisers don't have the bandwidth they say they do. So they really can't give everyone 24 sustained, only burst.
- lukev 17y agoGod forbid they actually advertise their real and burst rates instead of picking a completely unrealistic, sky-high number.
- randallsquared 17y agoAnd the reason most heavy users do not complain very loudly about this false advertising is that we are benefactors, since our heavy internet usage is subsidized by those that only browse the web a bit and get email, but still want 25 Mbps because it's "more" than 2 Mbps.