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What were they testing? If users would notice the throttling?
by pxeboot 9y ago
What were they testing? If users would notice the throttling?
- caspianrunner 9y agoI have worked at a mobile ISP before. I don't know what VZW is doing here, but there are a few reasons you might run an experiment. Most often for me it was to troubleshoot a technical issue. To try to get an idea of user behavior we would run "experiments" on previously collected data, i.e. rely on natural experiments - not change things and then see what happened. In every case the experiments I was part of were to see if we could improve user throughput, not degrade it.
- rhino369 9y agoProbably testing something like Tmobile's bingeon. Mobile bandwidth is tightly rationed but video providers to a terrible job being efficient. It's one of the few legitimate uses of throttling IMO.