> Being able to get better latency on a few percent of your bandwidth would be useful for gaming. Competition gives us that in the best possible way. However,

> Being able to get better latency on a few percent of your bandwidth would be useful for gaming. Competition gives us that in the best possible way. However, telecom lobbyists have successfully manipulated lawmakers/regulators to lock out competition. Me, before competition: Last year ago I had 1 choice of ISP. I could pay $119/mo for 40Mb upload with 40ms latency to the IX. Last fall, a fiber provider trenched lines here. This year I have a choice of 8 fiber ISPs. I can pay $59/mo for 1Gb upload with 4ms latency to the IX. I can pay $79/mo for 2Gb or $199 for 8Gb. A lot more of the US could have this choice if lawmakers didn't allow telecoms to write laws and decide regulation (after funding elections). In many cases, taxpayers even paid for modern networks which the ISPs never delivered (generally w/o consequences).