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Re:Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click by marcosdumay on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @12:28PM (#8297368)
Did you buy a connection to the Time Warner Network, or did you buy a connection to the Internet?

If they can't get external data fast enough for supplying your connection, TW has lied to you, and isn't delivering the service you paid for.

Also, interconnection is not in any way analogue to a pipe. It has no reasonable length they have to keep. It's just a matter of joining the 50Mb "pipe" they sold to you with the pipe the other party sold to the site you are accessing.

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Re:Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click by webXL on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @12:59PM (#8297541)
> If they can't get external data fast enough for supplying your connection, TW has lied to you, and isn't delivering the service you paid for

Is it really possible that everyone who pays for 50Mbit connection can get M0Mbit/sec directly from Netflix??? Is Netflix really capable of pumping that out of their datacenters?

TW lies about bandwidth as does Apple about battery life and performance. It's all about ideal (impractical) conditions and plain 'ol marketing BS that all the ISPs do.

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