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Yup thanks to net neutrality getting struck down they can legally choose to throttle certain activities. I have noticed the occasional extremely slow performance when trying to stream Amazon Prime at times even though it seems everything else I do on my computer is working fine. It also happens quite often when I'm streaming the Watch ESPN app on my iPad. Thanks Time Warner.
For the past few months I've struggled to get good quality video on netflix. I can stream it perfect from my phones data plan, but through Time Warner Cable it is terrible, even though I've used their own speed test verify that I have between 10Mbps-20Mbps at any time.
Big Cable is evil to the core, and I think they are limiting data for customers who use netflix in order to suppress their competition. Be aware!
Maybe they are taking a lesson from ComCast, and rate limiting NetFlix. Remember that the cable providers are also content providers. Of course they want to screw their competitors while also screwing their isp customers into paying more or buy the cable provider's competitive content.
Now that the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Verizon in the case dealing with net neutrality, expect more delays and problems with Netflix. Netflix uses about 28% of the bandwidth available in America for streaming their video, so Verizon, Time Warner and others of their ilk, can implement a surcharge on Netflix and Amazon. Guess who will pay for it in the long run? You, of course! Welcome to the new world where corporations control everything!
You know what bugs me the most about the net neutrality issue? That the idiotlogue right frames it as a free market versus guuuuvment issue.
Sadly, in the long run, folks who try to pare their cable bill down by cutting back on the cable TV portion of it (dropping HBO and other premium channels and "extended tiers"), will find that TWC and AT&T jack up the internet costs to offset lost TV channel revenue. Any costs associated with the coming merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable will be paid for by their "captive customers."
Already, the CEO of Comcast told customer service representatives to not let customers ask for discounts when their bill suddenly jumps up after "special offers" expire. Talk about corporate greed!
Is the bigger problem greed on the TWC/Comcast/insert major cable company side or with the conglomerates that have the majority of the channels and dictate the price the cable companies basically have to charge in order to pay them for their content?
Is the bigger problem greed on the TWC/Comcast/insert major cable company side or with the conglomerates that have the majority of the channels and dictate the price the cable companies basically have to charge in order to pay them for their content?
It's actually a problem with both sides. The cable companies nickle and dime you on increases in modem fees, box fees and overall programming, while CBS,ABC etc., gouge the cable companies for higher re-transmission fees. If you use an antenna, CBS and friends get nada and have to manage on what they make on their ad revenue. Greed is the modus operandi! I used to think WBTV should be called the Scott Clark Toyota channel as it seemed that every third commercial was theirs!
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