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Topic	Pause a video for a good hour so it can buffer.
Mario_VS_DK 08/08/17 9:17:08 PM #13:	Yellow posted... Kyuubi4269 posted... A lot of providers throttle streaming so you can't buffer. Shouldn't that be illegal with net neutrality? It's not really throttling. First, all it does is stop once it buffers a certain amount in advance. Second, if it's slowing down for someone, it's probably slowed down for everyone or that person's internet is just too slow. Third, even if it was throttling, it's these people who are selling the services that are throttling, not your ISP (Internet Service Provider (Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, etc)), so it's not really a problem. If anything it's good. The real problem about net neutrality going away would be your ISP saying that this site in particular is going to be slow, even though they can totally handle you. This forces you to either deal with it being slow, if you can access it at all, or switch to the service that the ISP has a deal with. If someone wants to throttle your connection to them, then that's their choice, because the only concern is that you may stop using their service. They aren't trying to control the market like what your ISP would be doing by forcing you to use their service or the service they have a deal with. YouTube could totally throttle everyone if they wanted, but they wouldn't because they would lose business. However there may be times that they are forced to do that because perhaps too many people are connecting at once, so they could throttle it so their lines aren't completely overloaded. Some file storing services I think throttle their download speeds and then give faster speeds to paying customers. This is fine, because again, you can simply use another file storing service like Google Drive or something. You're not forced to use say, Apple's cloud. (Apple doesn't throttle either, this is just an example because I'm not sure if I'm allowed to mention the ones I know of that do.) --- Stupid signature! <cite>Mario_VS_DK posted [p:884432895] in *Pause a v... [t:75650765]...</cite> <quote><cite>Yellow posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Kyuubi4269 posted...</cite> <quote>A lot of providers throttle streaming so you can't buffer.</quote> Shouldn't that be illegal with net neutrality?</quote> It's not really throttling. First, all it does is stop once it buffers a certain amount in advance. Second, if it's slowing down for someone, it's probably slowed down for everyone or that person's internet is just too slow. Third, even if it was throttling, it's these people who are selling the services that are throttling, not your ISP (Internet Service Provider (Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, etc)), so it's not really a problem. If anything it's good. The real problem about net neutrality going away would be your ISP saying that this site in particular is going to be slow, even though they can totally handle you. This forces you to either deal with it being slow, if you can access it at all, or switch to the service that the ISP has a deal with. If someone wants to throttle your connection to them, then that's their choice, because the only concern is that you may stop using their service. They aren't trying to control the market like what your ISP would be doing by forcing you to use their service or the service they have a deal with. YouTube could totally throttle everyone if they wanted, but they wouldn't because they would lose business. However there may be times that they are forced to do that because perhaps too many people are connecting at once, so they could throttle it so their lines aren't completely overloaded. Some file storing services I think throttle their download speeds and then give faster speeds to paying customers. This is fine, because again, you can simply use another file storing service like Google Drive or something. You're not forced to use say, Apple's cloud. (Apple doesn't throttle either, this is just an example because I'm not sure if I'm allowed to mention the ones I know of that do.) --- Stupid signature!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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