Zarathustra[H]
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I do not live in the US, in my country net neutrality stopped being enforced by the government. So what happened to the consumer?
I have a 1Gb/400Mb connection, if I access Netflix, Google, Microsoft or Steam it's all good I mostly get those speeds.
Now if I stray from the path and say connect to my VPN, I would get around 300Mb/s and now I get 30~80Mb/s.
If I send a file to someone on a different ISP I used to get 100~200Mbs of upload, now I get around 10Mb/s
Heck the other day I was setting up a project and the initial build was taking forever, 20mins instead of 1~2mins my colleague on a Net Neutrality country was experiencing. Turns out my download speed of a github subdomain was again around 10 Mbit/s.
(This was observed also by other friends and colleagues that depend on internet for remote work. It also depends on ISP as some are more aggressive than others on the throttling.)
So, on my side of the pond, the removal or un-enforcement of Net Neutrality had a significant effect in my day to day use of the internet.
I should point out, I "liked" your post because I agree with your take, and appreciate the data point, NOT because I am happy you have to deal with this shit.
(I am sorry you have to deal with this shit)