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Van /. http://slashdot.org/
First European Provider To Break Net Neutrality
"Major Dutch cable provider UPC has introduced a new network management
system which, from noon to midnight, for certain services and providers,
caps users' bandwidth at 1/3rd of their nominal bandwidth [1]. After the
consumer front for cable providers in The Netherlands received many
complaints about network problems and slow speeds, UPC decided to take
this as an excuse to introduce their new 'network management' protocol
which slows down a large amount of traffic. All protocols but HTTP are
capped to 1/3 speed, and within the HTTP realm some Web sites and
services that use lots of upstream bandwidth are capped as well. So far
UPC is hiding behind the usual excuse: 'We are protecting all the users
against the 1% of the user base who abuse our network.'"
[1] http://www.coax.nl/news/reageer/index.php?NewsID=2218
Vr.Gr,
Rob
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