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Recently net neutrality ended and now we have 250 GB/Month bandwidth caps as Comcast customers. I don't consider a bandwidth cap applied univerally to be a vio
by orangecat 15y ago
Recently net neutrality ended and now we have 250 GB/Month bandwidth caps as Comcast customers.
I don't consider a bandwidth cap applied univerally to be a violation of net neutrality. There may or may not be a legitimate justification for it, but it's still treating all traffic the same. The violation would be if they charged/extorted sites like Netflix or YouTube to collect payments in exchange for traffic to them not counting against the cap.
- nitrogen 15y agoBandwidth caps can be seen as discriminating against higher-volume types of traffic, like high definition video (which directly competes with cable TV). If you limit the amount of HD video people can watch online in a given month, they are pushed toward your cable TV product. For what it's worth, Comcast is already extorting (or at least trying to extort) Netflix for payments.