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For you a speed test is just once in a life time event.
For a wireless provider this is a thing what clogs the shared media of a radio channel for quite a lot (modern speed tests try to push 100 or even more MBytes?) and cause a disruption for everyone else on the same channel.
I don't know why ATT throttles (if at all, not a customer) that site, but wire and wireless providers are different.
How does traffic shaping interact with net neutrality regulations?
Easy. goto here: https://www.att.com/support log in. cancel. tell them why. goto https://www.t-mobile.com port your number and sign up. and you're done! You can't legislate good behavior. You can only hit them in the checkbook. Wireless fortunately doesn't have the cable providers do, where local governments have entrenched players into local monopolies. Switching away is the most powerful thing you can do.
How does traffic shaping interact with net neutrality regulations?
How does traffic shaping interact with net neutrality regulations?
Easy. goto here: https://www.att.com/support log in. cancel. tell them why. goto https://www.t-mobile.com port your number and sign up. and you're done! You can't legislate good behavior. You can only hit them in the checkbook. Wireless fortunately doesn't have the cable providers do, where local governments have entrenched players into local monopolies. Switching away is the most powerful thing you can do.
Well, you absolutely can. It's just that the US voter regularly votes in politicians that do absolutely nothing to mandate at least fair behaviour.
This explains some similar behavior I've had with various apps taking absurdly long to load when the internet connection itself feels fine. Assumed it was just iPhone's gradually getting shittier
How does traffic shaping interact with net neutrality regulations?
Easy. goto here: https://www.att.com/support log in. cancel. tell them why. goto https://www.t-mobile.com port your number and sign up. and you're done! You can't legislate good behavior. You can only hit them in the checkbook. Wireless fortunately doesn't have the cable providers do, where local governments have entrenched players into local monopolies. Switching away is the most powerful thing you can do.
While everyone knows that all wireless carriers are universally terrible, I've actually had a fairly noneventful (read: good) experience with T-Mobile over the last decade. I've never observed evidence of traffic shaping or any other shady business (like capturing NXDOMAIN DNS responses and directing you to a sponsored search page). I've also never observed significant performance degradation from congestion-based pr…
But apart from all the data breaches, I was also able to verify T-Mobile doing this (arbitrary blocking of texts containing innocuous URLs) on my plan. Although they seem to have fixed it now. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29744347
While everyone knows that all wireless carriers are universally terrible, I've actually had a fairly noneventful (read: good) experience with T-Mobile over the last decade. I've never observed evidence of traffic shaping or any other shady business (like capturing NXDOMAIN DNS responses and directing you to a sponsored search page). I've also never observed significant performance degradation from congestion-based pr…