• lemmyvore@feddit.nl
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    5 months ago

    Bandwidth is a finite resource. If everybody on your street wants that 10GB at the same time there’s going to be throttling.

    But that’s a common sense type of throttling. Net neutrality is about not giving priority to certain types of content or websites over others.

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      5 months ago

      Technically yes. But the odds on a properly built trunk line getting saturated by a random neighborhood aren’t great. Unless of course they’ve never upgraded that line in 20 years…

    • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
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      5 months ago

      Right — not immune to congestion at all. Unlike ATT fiber, where we had 300Mbps (symmetric I think)…but if you log in to the modem it reported a gigabit link. Starting a download, you could often get more than 300Mbps, but it would slowly fall in line with bandwidth policies.

      With Sonic, my gigabit connection would get north of 900Mbps (iperf3), both ways, to a nearby university computer. I miss it.