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Interesting distinction between the new unlimited plan and the old one: "On the Fi Flexible plan, video streams at 1080p (Full HD quality). On the Fi Unlimited
by Sodman 7y ago
Interesting distinction between the new unlimited plan and the old one:
"On the Fi Flexible plan, video streams at 1080p (Full HD quality). On the Fi Unlimited plan, video may be streamed at 480p (DVD quality)."
- ISL 7y agoIf the internet is a dumb pipe, how does it know whether you're streaming video and at what rate?
- tantalor 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_of_service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_of_service
- bvandewalle 7y agoWhen you are Google, the internet is not a dumb pipe. For example they can correlate the youtube videos you are watching from your phone.
- mostvexing 7y agoDoesn't this violate net neutrality?
- kelnos 7y agoWhat net neutrality? And even when net neutrality rules were on the books, companies still got away with stuff like this.
- james-mcelwain 7y agoWhat net neutrality? Net neutrality was repealed over a year ago.
- Dylan16807 7y agoIn a minor way. The neutral alternative would be a system that allows bursting but then caps everything down to about 1.5Mbps. They're not really trying to discriminate between types of data, they're trying to lower the 95th percentile.
- sneak 7y agoYes. There are no US wireless (LTE) carriers that offer L7-neutral internet access.
- saagarjha 7y agoOther carriers do this too.
- penagwin 7y agoYou can often circumvent those restrictions with a VPN.
- Sodman 7y agoWonder if this is also one of the reasons that they try so hard to opt you into using their built-in "Google VPN"? Get some users that might otherwise use VPN software for "security in public places" to just trust Google instead.