<sigh> ... Thanks Nick ... for clearing that up for everyone. Of course the problem is that it really cleared up nothing for those who know what is going on ... and for those that do not ... it only clouded the issue a bit more for them .. because lets face it, most of them don't even know what Ethernet is ... nor have they ever seen the inside of a data center. But at least you got a few fellow geek's to step up to each other. Well done. :-)
The plain fact is that throttling does occur. Nobody is ever going to prove that Comcast shut down the fast lanes for Netflix bits. Who cares really anyway? As for NN ... again, nobody knows yet how effective this will be in getting us what we need.... namely: the break up of incumbent last mile providers stranglehold on access for everyone (because they just don't want to spend money to get that backhaul up to speed).
Come ON people! It comes down to unfettered access to whatever anyone wants to access (as long as it is legal) in whatever quantities they want it!. Does anyone believe that Coke would have beat Pepsi .. and then the other way around .... if one of them was forced to use only residential pick up trucks to spread the product? No ... people needed access to as much as they wanted .. where they wanted .. and when they wanted. There as no moratorium on Hula Hoop sales .... if you want huge consumer growth ... then consumers need access to what they want to buy. That is a simple axiom. Stop arguing over the course each bit might take to get somewhere. We have the backbones ... what we need is last mile, and everyone knows it. We need it because that is what the people want .. we need it because there is a huge amount of commercial opportunity for companies who can make a product that will sell ... and the only entities standing in the way to one heck of a lot of growth and profit making and general all around happiness for everyone are THE F8XXING INCUMBENT GATEKEEPERS.
Now you will please pardon my intolerance on this... but we've been allowing these same milking machines to rip off John Q Public for decades. While this continued, nobody really cared much, since ripping off Mr. and Mrs. Consumer is pretty much the way of the Corporate world.. and we are all sort of "fine with that" (with the exception of those pesky activists). But when the milking business and the monopolies that exist in tandem continue to thwart vast amounts of commercial growth for the rest of the online world ... AND keep consumers from spending money on what they WANT to buy.... well, I think we can all safely say that this BS has gone on long enough.