re: The SEC Network a failure up to this point?

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1. I don't want the Internet policed by anyone, especially not the US government.
2. They can throttle bandwidth, but there is always competition and you can switch ISPs. Google is going to start offering low earth orbit satellite connections to avoid the throttling from ISPs.
3. Netflix doesn't have this problem and I would say that they have been pretty successful.

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Have your tried Satellite Internet before?

1)The delay on its is pretty bad. If you need to do something the requires realtime interaction don't bother.

2) The bandwidth limits on monthly usage for Satellite Internet are a bit lower than traditional broadband providers.

3) The Speeds are kinda crappy especially for upload. They are just now starting to offer 1 Mbps upload and remember you have limits on that too.

As for Competition of ISP, The Majority of Americans either have 1 or 2 choices for Highspeed internet. Local governments created this mess by making hard as frick to break into a new market. Oddly enough, Local governments desire to attract Google fiber to their city is actually loosening up some these restriction in some areas.