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<blockquote data-quote="Hobbes" data-source="post: 2512379" data-attributes="member: 3371"><p>Today CSPAN carried FCC chairman Wheelers press conference from yesterday.</p><p></p><p>Before watching that I was under the impression that the majority of the throttling was done on the back end at the peer link level but he made a curious statement during the press conference.</p><p>He said that, under the proposal the FCC is pursuing, it would be permissable to charge for more bandwidth at the point where traffic enters the ISP network but not on the consumer's end of "the pipe".</p><p>Then he said "that's not the case with the ComCast situation".</p><p>It left me with the impression that Comcast is throttling closer to the consumer, maybe even their edge routers to obtain more granularity of control.</p><p>Not sure.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, it just striking that he was basically admitting that some of the ISP's have been throttling and the FCC intends to legalize it.</p><p>He justifies it by reiterating over and over that the bandwidth that the customer pays for from his house to the ISP is not affected in any way under the proposal.</p><p></p><p>It's no wonder Tom Wheeler was inducted into the Cable Television Hall of Fame in 2009.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hobbes, post: 2512379, member: 3371"] Today CSPAN carried FCC chairman Wheelers press conference from yesterday. Before watching that I was under the impression that the majority of the throttling was done on the back end at the peer link level but he made a curious statement during the press conference. He said that, under the proposal the FCC is pursuing, it would be permissable to charge for more bandwidth at the point where traffic enters the ISP network but not on the consumer's end of "the pipe". Then he said "that's not the case with the ComCast situation". It left me with the impression that Comcast is throttling closer to the consumer, maybe even their edge routers to obtain more granularity of control. Not sure. Anyway, it just striking that he was basically admitting that some of the ISP's have been throttling and the FCC intends to legalize it. He justifies it by reiterating over and over that the bandwidth that the customer pays for from his house to the ISP is not affected in any way under the proposal. It's no wonder Tom Wheeler was inducted into the Cable Television Hall of Fame in 2009. [/QUOTE]
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