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This is the situation where net neutrality falls over because there's very often more demand, even at 1.5Mbps for a stream, than an airplane's link can provide.
by dehrmann 3y ago
This is the situation where net neutrality falls over because there's very often more demand, even at 1.5Mbps for a stream, than an airplane's link can provide.
- haswell 3y agoAirlines, coffee shops and similar entities providing Internet as an ancillary service were not subject to these rules when they were in effect. The rules primarily target ISPs selling directly to customers.
- dehrmann 3y agoIt also fails for mobile data and large crowds. Try checking your email at a concert.
- RulerOf 3y agoI always enable my 5G when I get into big crowds and it usually fixes that problem, assuming service is available. I usually keep it off otherwise though because average bandwidth tends to be better on LTE in my experience.
- Dylan16807 3y agoOn an airplane in particular, you can set the limit lower for everything, and that doesn't violate neutrality.
- MostlyStable 3y agoSo many people seem to think that Net Neutrality disallowed _any_ kind of network management, when it simply disallowed service provider level preference. You can, under net neutrality, throttle _all_ video content, if you want to, you just can't only throttle YouTube and not Netflix (for example.