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If you aren’t sure, you will soon be able to download a tool from Google that will tell you once and for all if they are. If ISP’s aren’t going to tell their users exactly what is happening with their network connections, Google wants to make sure that these people have the ability to tell for themselves.
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If you aren’t sure, you will soon be able to download a tool from Google that will tell you once and for all if they are. If ISP’s aren’t going to tell their users exactly what is happening with their network connections, Google wants to make sure that these people have the ability to tell for themselves.
Our speed was slower, until competition warmed up. They told us that if we agreed to keep their service for at least a year, they would increase our speed. I'm wondering if they are still "throttling" it.
Throttling is more than just the maximum limit they place on your connection. Its an unfair, and illegal activity ISPs are using that flies in the face of the internet equality laws.
I know some services have different "levels" of service which have different price tags. Such information is usually posted on the ISP's website, though ours has no plans that I'm aware of. For information about Internet service you have to actually talk to a human being.
I know some services have different "levels" of service which have different price tags. Such information is usually posted on the ISP's website, though ours has no plans that I'm aware of. For information about Internet service you have to actually talk to a human being.
The 'levels' that come to mind straight off-hand are..
Enterprise service
and
Residential service
And as far as I'm aware... there is only one difference between the two on an ISP's level.
Enterprise never goes down.
Never ever ever. And if it does, you spend all of your time and energy fixing it until its up.
Residential can go down and be fixed as necessary. Some ISPs are better than others in getting techs out to your site, but they really do focus on the enterprise class customers.
In terms of data transfer... generally Voice and Video data is given a higher priority than normal traffic, then a bunch of other traffic is in between that data and at the bottom is generally P2P traffic.
However, that flies in the face of all net neutrality agreements.
The average, and even the above average user often have no need for the term.
It applies to people who's data is being throttled, or tampered with by any means.
I work for an ISP and am an avid proponent of P2P services. Thus, I have a fairly personal interest in ISP's throttling and net neutrality.
My ISP only assigns a higher priority for VoIP traffic and Video traffic, as we have customers that use both of these fairly heavily.
If any customer decides to max out their connection continously, we take no exception to it. We only call them if we notice that it has spiked from their normal usage. particularly our business customers max out their links 24/7, and have purchased links that handle precisely enough bandwidth.
And for some reason, all of a sudden your computer jumps up to using 2mbps (4x the original) for 24 hours, and you were using 500kbps for months... then, well, we're concerned.
But a single large file is just a drop in the bucket.
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