Quote: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.