Originally Posted By: Derid

1) Does thee current NN still prohibit tiered service plans?


Did it ever? You pay x$ for YGB, where x and Y is any number between 0 and inf.

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2) Does the current NN still prevent traffic prioritization based on sensitivity to latency?


Traffic "prioritization" of any kind is still no-go. You can do QoS on your own network, but your GBs from #1 are FIFO.

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was that under NN, the ISPs would just let everything through to everyone, on one uniform service plan


Strange fear. What would be the business case for this?

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and basically everything would be lagged to shit.


This has everything to do with overselling and nothing to do with prioritization.

ISP wanted to be cheeky and sell more bandwidth than they had. When it became obvious (via lag) that they sold what they couldn't deliver, they decided to get nasty and punish people that used most of bandwidth they bought.

It is like selling more season tickets than you have seats in the stadium, and then penalizing fans that show up for every game in order to free up stadium space.

That should be illegal, right?


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