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Would you rather have: >30mbps Internet with traffic shaping
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Would you rather have:

>30mbps Internet with traffic shaping
Or
>20mbps unlimited
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>>55377783
20mbps unlimited.
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>>55377783
Unlimited. Although I don't have to choose because I have 100mbps unlimited.
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That depends on if the traffic shaping benefits the connection quality overall: by controlling bufferbloat; prioritizing very latency-sensitive services like DNS, SSH, RTP, gaming, etc; not destroying long-lived TCP connections like IRC for no reason; deprioritizing bulk, high-bandwidth services which are not time-critical, so web browsing doesn't get knocked out by a Linux ISO torrent seeding; and most importantly, not arbitrarily throttling shit to low levels or ever blocking anything because you don't like it, or because someone uses a lot of bandwidth and they're an expensive customer, or because the site they're visiting didn't pay the toll ransom even though it's paying its transit.

Traffic shaping is a tool. It can be used for good, and in that form is best implemented in a link-capacity-aware way on a good router.

But ISPs almost never use routers that aren't shit, and almost never truly prioritise connection quality. It has become a tool for double-spacing extortion and outright nation-state censorship, from the conservative universities of the USA to Iran, China, Bahrain, Turkey etc.

It will be a shame to lose traffic shaping as an effective tool, but it is a regrettable casualty in a world where visible, classifiable metadata is a tool for mass surveillance, the biggest attack on the internet to date.
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>>55377783
20mbps unlimited
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> Living in a country where data caps aren't illegal
> Having less than 50mb/s
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>>55378208
tfw this is me
fuck canada's ISPs
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>>55377783
I'd much rather find out where OP lives and kill his whole family.
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>>55377783
i rather have a completely vpn protected anonymous 5mbps isp
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Any speed, unlimited
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>>55377796
>>55377818
>>55377948
>>55378260
Alright, I will upgrade to the unlimited option then.
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>traffic """""shaping"""""
enjoy your """""up to""""" 30mbps 23/7 10 kbps speeds
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>>55381453
My current ISP is not that bad when it comes to traffic shaping. When I use torrent it normally stays at 1.3MB/s and it goes down to 500kB/s after a while, and then it goes back to the normal speeds, and it keeps this cycle over and over.
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