http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/28/2153242

"It appears Cox Communications is the next in line for throttling internet traffic. But it's not throttling of course; Cox's euphemism is 'congestion management.' From Cox's explanation: 'In February, Cox will begin testing a new method of managing traffic on our high-speed Internet network in our Kansas and Arkansas markets. During the occasional times the network is congested, this new technology automatically ensures that all time-sensitive Internet traffic — such as web pages, voice calls, streaming videos and gaming — moves without delay. Less time-sensitive traffic, such as file uploads, peer-to-peer and Usenet newsgroups, may be delayed momentarily...' Sounds like throttling to me."

What do you think?  It doesn't sound as much throttling.  More like prioritizing.  This I can understand because bittorents and other such protocols can put an unfair load on the servers.

Throttling by any other name is still throttling.

throttling is where they say that this type of traffic can only go so fast.

prioritizing is where they say if there is too much traffic, traffic A and traffic B will get priority and traffic C and traffic D will have to wait.

All ISPs that do this put certain types of traffic into a bin and make that the 'priority' traffic and everything that isn't, gets 'throttled'. If you're OK with that, more power to ya (I don't have a problem with it since they are running a business and should be allowed to do what they want on their networks, but I do not appreciate that they try to hide behind euphemisms--and insult their users' intelligence--while they're doing it).

You should hope your ISP prioritizes packets. This is a good thing, unless I am misreading the article. Throttling would be when they target specific users based upon their usage patterns.

All i know is that my cable internet has been running slow as hell lately thanks to cox.

I've got highspeed internet and yet Videos often stop to buffer when they didn't before.

"I don't like cox"
"What? You don't like cox?"
"Nope, I don't like cox"


"Best conversation, EVER."

The Todd...^_^

As a Scrubs fan, I have to correct your misquote.

Well, I got the main idea though :P

Cool, didn't know they had this on youtube, thanks!

(Now putting this on my psp...)