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Verizon Using Recent Net Neutrality Victory to Wage War Against Netflix

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http://davesblog.com/blog/2014/02/05/verizon-using-recent-net-neutrality-victory-to-wage-war-against-netflix/

 

David Raphael displayed a conversation he had with a Verizon support rep showing that indeed, Verizon was throttling his Netflix streaming quality. 

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They've been doing this long BEFORE the whole net neutrality thing went down. I love Verizon's Internet, but even I've been a victim of them throttling my speeds on YouTube and Netflix. An easy way around this is to just use a VPN, but most people don't know that, nor do they know that Verizon is throttling them. 

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They've been doing this long BEFORE the whole net neutrality thing went down. I love Verizon's Internet, but even I've been a victim of them throttling my speeds on YouTube and Netflix. An easy way around this is to just use a VPN, but most people don't know that, nor do they know that Verizon is throttling them. 

 

I wouldn't deny it either. Just this guy was able to convince a rep to admit to that fact.

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They've been doing this long BEFORE the whole net neutrality thing went down. I love Verizon's Internet, but even I've been a victim of them throttling my speeds on YouTube and Netflix. An easy way around this is to just use a VPN, but most people don't know that, nor do they know that Verizon is throttling them. 

so if I use Hotspot shield I counter the throttling?

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so if I use Hotspot shield I counter the throttling?

Mhm, at least, it's worked for me so far.

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They've been doing this long BEFORE the whole net neutrality thing went down. I love Verizon's Internet, but even I've been a victim of them throttling my speeds on YouTube and Netflix. An easy way around this is to just use a VPN, but most people don't know that, nor do they know that Verizon is throttling them. 

dude i get 60 down and up. and i have yet to expirience NETFLIX and somewhat youtube in higher than 480p

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And so it begins, the beginning of the end.... 

 

So what country had protection of net neutrality laws in place, might start house hunting there soon

 

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Oh maybe I'll just piss off to Bhutan and say good night to the internet all together.... ..... but ESO  :unsure:

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This has got to be beyond frustrating for anyone who is a Verizon customer. Especially considering the main reason anyone gets higher bandwidth, e.g. 70 Mbps, is so they can watch, stream, and download things that are bandwidth heavy such as HD content on Netflix, Hulu, Youtube, etc. Additionally, their reasoning along with other ISPs is complete and utter bull shit. They all claim that those services are too bandwidth heavy and they need to throttle it because they don't have enough bandwidth to go around when in fact they have plenty! Fiber networks have incredible bandwidth capacity and to say that they need to throttle certain services to conserve bandwidth is ridiculous. Not to mention the fact that internet services have a 200% profit margin. It's an absolute joke. So glad I have yet to experience this problem, but I'm certain I will eventually.

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