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scott wrote:
>> Shouldn't that affect *all* traffic, not just YouTube?
>
> ISPs can throttle the traffic based on where it is coming from, eg
> YouTube or iPlayer. It's in their interest to do this, otherwise a load
> of people using iPlayer could easily bring everyone's internet
> connection to a halt.
More precisely: ISPs are based on the idea that nobody will use all of
the bandwidth they've paid for, and therefore it's OK for the ISPs to
provision the backbone with only a tiny fraction of the bandwidth
actually required.
And now YouTube and iPlayer are changing the way people use the
Internet, and ISPs are trying to claim that it's YouTube's "fault" for
being "irresponsible" by using up all this bandwidth - rather than
admitting that their networks are underprovisioned because it's more
profitable that way.
Still, once they start charging by the GB rather than the day, the
"problem" will solve itself...
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