Here's what Comcast and Verizon are doing to Netflix streaming- and this is a big deal

[BlueStreak]

24. In the evenings, my bandwidth often drops to half. Moreover

response time for common websites is usually instantaneous but in the evenings it can be several seconds.

I can't prove that it is congestion in my local neighborhood. It could be congestion upstream of that. But it is most likely Netflix, Hulu and stuff like that that is hammering me.

If people want to do that, they ought to pay their share of the infrastructure. If Comcast has to expand facilities because of these heavy bandwidth users, they should be the ones that pay for it.

But Comcast is not asking for measured service, which seems like the obvious solution. They are pushing for the ability to target SPECIFIC competitors and penalize them. That's just wrong. We ought to be insisting that measured service is the only acceptable answer to arguments they make in favor of non-neutrality. it is none of their damn business what content flows across their network as long as the subscribers are paying a fair share for that bandwidth.