If you're claiming it was done "as a courtesy" then obviously it wasn't stipulated in the original contract so they could have just let the connections bottleneck and still be perfectly within their terms. They didn't do it because there was no money to be made at the time. As soon as the contract was up they saw $$$$$. Throttled the frick out of Netflix at the expense of hundreds of thousands of people's experiences and forced more compensation for themselves. This is a picture perfect example of the experience we as customers are going to have under this structure.

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Posted by Centinel

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Posted on 11/21/17 at 7:56 pm to Drewbie

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As soon as the contract was up they saw $$$$$.

No, they negotiated the new contract to reflect the increase need to provide this courtesy to NetFlix.

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Throttled the frick out of Netflix at the expense of hundreds of thousands of people's expenses and forced more compensation for themselves.

That's how businesses operate. NetFlix is at fault here.

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This is a picture perfect example of the experience we as customers are going to have under this structure.

So the ISP should have just kept providing this increased burden on their network without compensation?

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Posted by BaddestAndvari

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Member since Mar 2011

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Posted on 11/21/17 at 7:58 pm to Drewbie

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If you're claiming it was done "as a courtesy" then obviously it wasn't stipulated in the original contract so they could have just let the connections bottleneck and still be perfectly within their terms. They didn't do it because there was no money to be made at the time. As soon as the contract was up they saw $$$$$. Throttled the frick out of Netflix at the expense of hundreds of thousands of people's experiences and forced more compensation for themselves. This is a picture perfect example of the experience we as customers are going to have under this structure.

Just stop... It's pointless to try to talk sense into the guy the said this earlier:

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You missed my whole point though - we don't live in a world that needs speeds from 1996, we live in a world that needs speeds from 2017.

Those aren't needs. Those are wants.

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We have Netflix, we have Youtube, we have Apple Music, etc. etc.

Wants, not needs.