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Comment Re:ogahdno (Score 5, Interesting) 303

Hence 1.5m/128k ADSL 'competing' with 10-25m/512k cable internet and 3G/4G capped wireless networks more recently.

ADSL2+ will do near 30/3 on short loops (~1mi) and can be bonded. VSDL gets up into the hundreds of megabits. Mostly, ILECs just aren't interested/serious in competing, and would generally rather have bunches of unused, zero-revenue copper laying around than resell it to someone who *is* interested, because making no money at all is better than "helping" your competitor (who you aren't interested in competing with) by selling them something.

Comment Re:What the hell? (Score 1) 365

>Huh, that's funny. I though I ALREADY PAID the ISP to get the best possible transmission.

You *want* video streams to have priority over non-realtime traffic across the ISP network and your last-mile though, don't you? It's generally a good thing.

How this gets worked out, and who, if anyone, makes money from doing so is another issue.

Is prioritizing one kind of traffic logically the same as de-prioritizing all other traffic?

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