Re:What a non-neutral 'Net looks like, UK-style
by petercooper on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @12:05PM
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Some truth here but mostly FUD. This is not really non-net neutrality in the typical sense.
Throttling of "heavy users," even those on unlimited monthly data plans? Check.
This is not inherently anti net neutrality. DSL providers have a certain amount of bandwidth and this has to be distributed out via users. There is no such thing as an "unlimited monthly data plan." They can call it that, but if everyone attempted to download a terabyte of data at once, everything would crawl to a halt. That's not a threat to net neutrality but basic bandwidth math!
Re:What a non-neutral 'Net looks like, UK-style
by jdoliner on Thursday June 04, 2009 @02:55PM
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True, although in actuality if everyone just went online and tried to download a terabyte of data. TCP back off would be the reason that things came to a crawl, which is a user side thing.
Throttling of "heavy users," even those on unlimited monthly data plans? Check.
This is not inherently anti net neutrality. DSL providers have a certain amount of bandwidth and this has to be distributed out via users. There is no such thing as an "unlimited monthly data plan." They can call it that, but if everyone attempted to download a terabyte of data at once, everything would crawl to a halt. That's not a threat to net neutrality but basic bandwidth math!