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If it is just checking for speed differences than it useless at checking for "Net Neutrality Violations". This is because Net Neutrality would mean treating all
by worldofmatthew 6y ago
If it is just checking for speed differences than it useless at checking for "Net Neutrality Violations". This is because Net Neutrality would mean treating all traffic the same.
As bigger players use more bandwidth, if treated the same they will have congestion at peak hours as they use more bandwidth per visitor than smaller sites.
For someone like Netflix to be as fast as a smaller website, they would need a peering arrangment that is special for them.
- 35fbe7d3d5b9 6y agoGo read the methodology section: they're explicitly looking for ISPs that do packet inspection, not just speed differences from site to device.
- majormajor 6y agoThis definition of net neutrality seems to rule out even offering connections with different speeds. If I'm paying for the 100Mb plan and someone else is on the 1Gb one, my downloads will be slower than theirs. And Netflix here would be making a deal for a really big pipe (oversimplification, obviously). I don't see a need for net neutrality to say you can't pay for more if you need more. I think "we're gonna charge you extra because of the TYPE of data you are" or "we're gonna charge you extra because we have our own competing service" or "we're gonna throttle you [for those same reasons]" are much bigger concerns. What's the big concern with Netflix operating as their own CDN vs paying a third party one?