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0 pointscuriousgal8y ago0 comments

HN is so fast I use it to test my internet issues. It’ll be hard to throttle it.

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Additionally, why would any ISP throttle a site with as little traffic as HN?

Edit: I say "little" in comparison to the seriously high traffic sites like Netflix or Google.

I'm imagining a situation where Susan Startuper wants her HN fix 20x a day just like everyone, but refuses to pay for the "Hacker Channel" subscription with her ISP. She still gets access but only at 128kb/s. In some areas there's just one ISP and it doesn't offer the Hacker Channel. DNS resolution of news.ycombinator.com fails for all of its customers.

Max-Beer street would start looking pretty good, especially if Max-HN was also available there. I'd be interested to know what, if any, effect the demise of net neutrality would have on American service providers with foreign customers.

yebyen8y ago

They're not doing it for bandwidth conservation, it's a way to extract rent from companies that are (already paying someone for) using the internet to reach their customers.

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