• vithigar@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    I probably should’ve been a little clearer that I’m taking scales of thousands of km here.

    I’m on an island in the North Atlantic. I don’t hold it against my ISP if I can’t get my full 1.5Gbps down from services hosted in California.

    • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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      6 months ago

      Yeah, makes sense, that’s a little different. In that case there is actually congestion on the trunk that makes things slow for the customers.

      My point I guess is that the people who want to sell a “fast lane” to their customers, or want to say Net Neutrality is the reason your home internet is slow when you’re accessing North America, are lying. Neutrally-applied traffic shaping to make things work is allowed, of course; just want to throttle their competitors and they’re annoyed that the government is allowed to tell them not to.