56% of Americans have Internet data caps; FCC asked to investigate

Re:56% of Americans have Internet data caps; FCC asked to in... by mattmanser on Friday May 06, 2011 @08:57PM (#2522982)

Speaking as a victim of the UK's BT rampant throttling at peak times, often making any video streaming service totally unusable, FTP's die, RDP's to private servers extremely laggy, I can say only this.

Be careful what you wish for. Once they start, they will not stop.

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Re:56% of Americans have Internet data caps; FCC asked to in... by petercooper on Saturday May 07, 2011 @03:06AM (#2523342)

Right on. I have a pretty good DSL connection (measures 10Mbps down most of the time) but YouTube is almost unusable on my iPad since if there's an HD video, that's the only version you can watch. The speed to YouTube is so poor that the video can't play in real time at all even with a long buffering period.

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Re:56% of Americans have Internet data caps; FCC asked to in... by arethuza on Saturday May 07, 2011 @07:09AM (#2523591)

How do you know it is active throttling and not just contention?

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