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There's that, and also visiting a speed test site is an indicator that a particular user is more sensitive to speed than the general user base (and perhaps cons
by KMag 5y ago
There's that, and also visiting a speed test site is an indicator that a particular user is more sensitive to speed than the general user base (and perhaps considering jumping to another ISP). It absolutely makes business sense to prioritize traffic to users who pay more attention.
- kortilla 5y agoNo, as an isp these are the worst customers. It’s better to piss off an dump people who consume a lot of bandwidth an are obsessed with throughput if you’re “business obsessed”.
- KMag 5y agoI'm assuming "an" is a misspelling of "and". If they're using lots of bandwidth, that's one thing, but I sometimes see 480p YouTube videos laggy and wonder what's going on. Maybe I'm in the minority, but there are at least some customers who aren't using a lot of bandwidth and still check their speed regularly. Dumping bandwidth hogs makes business sense, and bandwidth hogging is probably correlated with checking bandwidth, but the correlation isn't 1.0.
- throwaway290 5y agoIn the US most people are reportedly served by a single ISP and cannot really choose. ISP that intentionally pisses off speed-sensitive customers would be sued in no time.