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Huh, that's strange, I usually see the opposite when I'm out and about (particularly in Europe/South America). Popular services like Netflix are throttled but d

Huh, that's strange, I usually see the opposite when I'm out and about (particularly in Europe/South America). Popular services like Netflix are throttled but downloading huge blobs from my own servers is much faster.

Aachen 3y ago
Here in Europe it's all equally fast. I don't remember ever having a throttled service, that sounds like a page out of the dystopian scenarios produced in the era where net neutrality legislation was being proposed/promoted ten years ago or something. There were rumors back then that bittorrent was being throttled (and corresponding protocol obfuscation and port changing) but I never had that myself
- jgtrosh 3y ago
  Fast.com was created specifically to pinpoint the throttling that was actively applied to Netflix in many occurrences back then. It seems to be mostly gone, especially since streaming video now accounts for >50% of web traffic you can't easily throttle it and hope no one notices.
  - Aachen 3y ago
    In the USA specifically, I thought? Or which other regions has that happened in? I remember Comcast specifically having a monopoly in many areas and being able to pressure Netflix into getting money from both sides of the fiber (consumers and service providers)
- capableweb 3y ago
  > Here in Europe it's all equally fast Well, Europe has lots of different countries and I've definitely been in countries that are considered to be in Europe where it's not equally fast, and using a VPN can speed up a lot of things.
  - Aachen 3y ago
    TIL. I thought net neutrality legislation was EU-wide actually. Or maybe it is, but not every European country is in the EU, so good point
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  - nerdbert 3y ago
    Obviously there are faster and slower broadband connections; by "equally fast" I assume GP meant that various services can be reached without ISP choking or throttling, thanks to EU-wide network neutrality rules.
    - Aachen 3y ago
      That's what they must mean as well, because otherwise a VPN could never help I would be curious about concrete examples in Europe, though
no_time 3y ago
Isn't this exactly what net neutrality laws are supposed to ban?
- xp84 3y ago
  sure, but aren't there a lot of places that don't have those? I'd say most of the world doesn't, right?

Aachen 3y ago

Here in Europe it's all equally fast. I don't remember ever having a throttled service, that sounds like a page out of the dystopian scenarios produced in the era where net neutrality legislation was being proposed/promoted ten years ago or something. There were rumors back then that bittorrent was being throttled (and corresponding protocol obfuscation and port changing) but I never had that myself

jgtrosh 3y ago
Fast.com was created specifically to pinpoint the throttling that was actively applied to Netflix in many occurrences back then. It seems to be mostly gone, especially since streaming video now accounts for >50% of web traffic you can't easily throttle it and hope no one notices.
- Aachen 3y ago
  In the USA specifically, I thought? Or which other regions has that happened in? I remember Comcast specifically having a monopoly in many areas and being able to pressure Netflix into getting money from both sides of the fiber (consumers and service providers)
capableweb 3y ago
> Here in Europe it's all equally fast Well, Europe has lots of different countries and I've definitely been in countries that are considered to be in Europe where it's not equally fast, and using a VPN can speed up a lot of things.
- Aachen 3y ago
  TIL. I thought net neutrality legislation was EU-wide actually. Or maybe it is, but not every European country is in the EU, so good point
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- nerdbert 3y ago
  Obviously there are faster and slower broadband connections; by "equally fast" I assume GP meant that various services can be reached without ISP choking or throttling, thanks to EU-wide network neutrality rules.
  - Aachen 3y ago
    That's what they must mean as well, because otherwise a VPN could never help I would be curious about concrete examples in Europe, though

no_time 3y ago

Isn't this exactly what net neutrality laws are supposed to ban?

xp84 3y ago
sure, but aren't there a lot of places that don't have those? I'd say most of the world doesn't, right?