I used to live in France, DSL providers are a joke here. Verizon advertised $30 for single play (no phone, no television). In the end they added "fees" and taxes (what those are not included?), the price was $56 per month. The router is as shitty as it gets too. Now I moved and for $55 I have cable with optimum and it's way better. Still more expensive than Free, and still no tv/phone included.
Free has traffic shaping for anything going through their peering, but in particular apple and google.
Good luck using youtube via free's peering. it's nearly impossible. I don't know many people on free.fr that use youtube at all, because it's too terribly slow (1min load for 3s of video?). It's barely acceptable for things like google play downloads.
Their peering isn't net neutral at all.
Why does Google continue to peer with them then? The whole point of peering vs. transit is that two networks will connect for free to each other to get better service.
Re:We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality
by joseflavio on Sunday December 29, 2013 @06:49PM
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I think I dont notice because I use VPN all the time.
edit: typos.