Comment Re:What has this to do with net neutrality? (Score 1) 479
A correlation but not always a meaningful one. Consider 2 customers, both of which download about 1GByte per day. One streams approx 500MBytes/hour for 2 hours during the peak period when many other domestic customers are doing the same. The other is downloading at a relatively constant rate of approx 40MBytes/hour 24x7. Even though they both download approximately the same amount each month, the first customer is probably costing the ISP considerably more than the second. If all customers were like the 2nd one then the ISP would only need 1/10 of the external capacity than if all customers were like the first one.