Quote:I'm not sure about the whole net neutrality thing at this point.  From what I understand much of the argument regarding this kind of legislation started when technology was far less advanced than it is now.  I don't see ISP's really throttling popular traffic such as Netflix at this point because we're not talking about DSL or other basically outdated technologies that would be affected.

 

I guess I'll just have to do some research.

 

Technological improvements in infrastructure provide much MUCH higher bandwidth throughput today than ever before. There isn't a reason for them to throttle, but because of their monopoly there is always the option to charge premiums for certain sites and the consumer can't do anything about it. Again though, it hasn't happened yet.

 

It makes me wonder. If you encrypt your traffic using a VPN, how can your ISP ever know you are using a streaming service? How can they charge premiums for specific services or sites if all your traffic destination is undecipherable? Of course, certain ISPs have/can totally block VPN/openSSL traffic so that is a risk too.

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