{"id":15342,"date":"2015-06-25T14:45:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T19:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15342"},"modified":"2015-06-25T14:45:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T19:45:44","slug":"major-internet-providers-slowing-traffic-speeds-for-thousands-across-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15342","title":{"rendered":"Major internet providers slowing traffic speeds for thousands across US"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In Atlanta, for example, Comcast provided hourly median download speeds over a CDN called GTT of 21.4 megabits per second at 7pm throughout the month of May. AT&amp;T provided speeds over the same network of \u2155 of a megabit per second. When a network sends more than twice the traffic it receives, that network is required by AT&amp;T to pay for the privilege. When quizzed about slow speeds on GTT, AT&amp;T <a class=\" u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2015\/03\/netflix-war-is-over-but-money-disputes-still-harm-internet-users\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"in-body-link\">told Ars Technica<\/a> earlier this year that it wouldn\u2019t upgrade capacity to a CDN that saw that much outgoing traffic until it saw some money from that network (as distinct from the money it sees from consumers).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2015\/jun\/22\/major-internet-providers-slowing-traffic-speeds\">Major internet providers slowing traffic speeds for thousands across US | Technology | The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Atlanta, for example, Comcast provided hourly median download speeds over a CDN called GTT of 21.4 megabits per second at 7pm throughout the month of May. AT&amp;T provided speeds over the same network of \u2155 of a megabit per &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15342\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[671,621],"class_list":["post-15342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-cdn","tag-net-neutrality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15343,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15342\/revisions\/15343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}