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This is precisely why ISP's should have to operate more transparently as a common carrier and not as a private business milking a cash cow.

• chii 9y ago
  If an electric utility company did the same, with 'up-to 240volts' - they'd get their ass sued out of existence. Why can't the gov't establish standards for such things, like a minimum speed (from the IPS's own servers of course, you cannot expect that they control it all).
  • hueving 9y ago
    They would just game it then and underinvest on peering (similar to what happened in the netflix/Comcast scenario). What good is 1gbit guaranteed to your ISP if the entire ISP only has 10mbps to the rest of the world?
    • maccard 9y ago
      Better than having 10mbps to your ISP and your ISP having 10mbps to the rest of the world, if you're paying for 100
    • wmf 9y ago
      Presumably peering congestion would be one of the regulated metrics, just like voltage would be for an electric utility.