Maybe its them and not you: Speed problems

"Major U.S. Internet Providers Accused of Deliberately Slowing Traffic"

"Five major internet service providers in the US and one in Europe have been accused of abusing their market share to interfere with the flow of the internet for end users."
Article on Yahoo news via The Verge

Not surprising really.

No link? Don't quote without a link!

It sure didn't take them long to screw with your service after they got the net neutrality ruling in their favor.

I wasnt too sure about the linking of outside news articles who some may consider propaganda , but its out there on the front page ready for discovery and scrutiny. Check it out if you have the time plus. <-- nice way of saying everything cant be spoon fed to you, you have a world of information at your fingertips. But I'm gonna be nice:
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/major-u-s...924844214.html

I bet Time Warner is amongst the accused.

Idk about Europe but a major US bill passed recently allows businesses to pay for privileged access from an ISP o:
it means an ISP intentionally redirects server space/bandwith/whatever to one of these paying sites which can cause slow downs, interrupts and entire disconnections on regular, third-party sites. Netflix and several others have already paid for this kind of access.

There's rumors it's to snuff out freedom of speech but who knows...sounds more like business just being plain greedy imo 8D

Edit: Found the article I read :3
http://rt.com/usa/154444-net-neutrality-fcc-providers/

Edit: One last edit...

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Originally Posted by Diavolo

I bet Time Warner is amongst the accused.

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I have Time Warner too. And I hate them. At least once a day my router spazzes out and I have to reset it lol sometimes multiple times per day.

Jesus people fight for your rights.

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Originally Posted by Karnyboy

Jesus people fight for your rights.

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Gonna play a little devil's advocate here, but how exactly is this a rights issue?

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Originally Posted by RumiP

"I don't have a stake in this argument, but boy do I ever love to argue."

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There is some truth to your statement, though I would call it having a discussion. Not everything needs to be an argument to in order to learn about differing opinions. Take it for what you will, but calling this a rights issue is a little over the top.

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Originally Posted by L-D-Omlette

Gonna play a little devil's advocate here...

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"I don't have a stake in this argument, but boy do I ever love to argue."

Dumb pipes are still trying to act like they aren't dumb pipes.

Internet service providers charging for premium access hold us all to ransom

Article from The Guardian about the new FCC rules, basically they've killed net neutrality in the US.
I too was thinking this could be cause of many US players suffering lag and slow speeds as I dont suffer any over in my part of the UK or at least its very rare.

Perhaps our American friends can convince their telecommunications regulator to do its job, I say that in a none sarcastic way, just perhaps enough protest and complaints might make them do something. Personally I hope OFCOM (UK regulator) doesnt allow anything like that ever over here, we have patchy internet in some places as it is lol.

You have rights as a customer

Video HIGHLY related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ilMx7k7mso

That's because in America, Internet access is still treated as a commodity instead of a utility, even though 90% of the modern world is as dependent on it as indoor plumbing.

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Originally Posted by devilzpawn

I wasnt too sure about the linking of outside news articles who some may consider propaganda , but its out there on the front page ready for discovery and scrutiny. Check it out if you have the time plus. <-- nice way of saying everything cant be spoon fed to you, you have a world of information at your fingertips. But I'm gonna be nice:
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/major-u-s...924844214.html

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Hmm the source is Level3 and they not naming names. This is the same company that makes this game terrible to play. Until they show actual proof I don't believe it.

This explains a lot actually. If the big ISPs such as Verizon and Comcast/Time Warner are throttling speeds or imposing caps on data transfers after so much bandwidth has been used, it's no wonder people have been seeing as much lag as they have in game. Level3 is just a CDN (content delivery network) and only function to interconnect the major ISP networks with each other. Once traffic which seems like it's functioning normally leaves your ISP and hits Level3, the big ISPs are shrinking their "pipe" on how much data can flow, which essentially slows down EVERYTHING.

TLDR: Blame Netflix for having all its subscribers streaming content since their network traffic accounts for over half of the data transferred over the internet now. :P

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Originally Posted by Orophin

TLDR: Blame Netflix for having all its subscribers streaming content since their network traffic accounts for over half of the data transferred over the internet now. :P

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I'll drink to that, as 4/5 of my data usage for the month is my fiance streaming over Netflix.