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yeah I guess that's the same everywhere... still with all the fuzzy wording in that decision ISP's can basically do as they please with the traffic. You might have a 100/10 connection, but if streaming is throttled because you didn't pay up for that extra streaming package, your provider just got the license to invent, you might get just enough bandwidth out of it to stream a video in SD.

Yeah they'll charge the content providers for access to their fast lanes.
But they'll do the same with the customers too. After all those are the fast lanes and to use 'em you gotta pay, unless you use our own crappy service (at least some telecom companies are also in the business of content provision) which doesn't hold a candle to Netflix et al. but is free for you (at first), our beloved customer, and available in HD.

If you've read the articles I've posted, especially the first one, and see the points criticized not as separate but as a whole, you might see why the above scenario isn't unlikely.

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Originally Posted by VipertheSniper (Post 2354268)

Made me remember when I lived in Sweden-I had Bredbandsbolaget=Broadbandcompany as my provider I had 100/10 and sometimes I had very low speed(depending on the page I visits) I and others was told that this 100/10 is only guaranteed between two person who both have Bredbandsbolaget as provider. It was clearly in the "small text"

Markus

The way I have it is that you have multiple choices, low speed for cheap and then higher speed with higher monthly fee and until you decide to change the package they can't throttle you up or down no matter the amount of data or torrents you download/upload.

I wonder what will change.