Re:Research shows that nearly every U.S. cell provider is do...
by timr on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @11:32AM
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"I must strongly disagree there."
The article makes it clear what they did, and what conclusions they drew:
"Using a previously established, peer-reviewed technique, the team conducted more than half a million data traffic tests across 161 countries. From this data, the team found that internet service providers are “giving a fixed amount of bandwidth—typically something in the range of one and a half megabits per second to four megabits per second—to video traffic, but they don’t impose these limits on other network traffic.”
Moreover, the data shown directly below that paragraph reveals little pattern in the provider/app throttling rates. The data shows mostly that video is being throttled across the board.
Could there be other explanations for this? Absolutely. Peering is just one of many plausible explanations.
The article makes it clear what they did, and what conclusions they drew:
"Using a previously established, peer-reviewed technique, the team conducted more than half a million data traffic tests across 161 countries. From this data, the team found that internet service providers are “giving a fixed amount of bandwidth—typically something in the range of one and a half megabits per second to four megabits per second—to video traffic, but they don’t impose these limits on other network traffic.”
Moreover, the data shown directly below that paragraph reveals little pattern in the provider/app throttling rates. The data shows mostly that video is being throttled across the board.
Could there be other explanations for this? Absolutely. Peering is just one of many plausible explanations.