Never understood why they do it. If you are paying for it, what Skin off their backs is it if you use it frequently?

'Chokepoints'show up at various times throughout the date network due to fluctuating traffic. Think rush hour or rubber neckers at a car wreck. It doesn't make economic sense to build out capacity on these networks to end random and short lived slowdowns.

It is much like airlines vastly overbook their seats. The telco want to collect as much cash as they can from the population, but they don't want to spend a lot of money necessary to set up huge data networks to handle the enormous flows generated when everybody needs or wants to be online at the same time. So they sell these gigabit speeds at $$$$ hoping that everyone will be doing something else most of the time instead of playing on their internet.

A friend of mine told me when he was working at a defense contractor in telecommunications, he investigated the issues they were always having with their internet (Verizon at that particular one) and found that when everything slows down and or crashes, they blame it on a back-up somewhere else but never reveal that they are charging everyone on the receiving end of service top $ for top speed when they can only deliver dial-up speed when everyone is on there using the system. Just another way they ripoff their clients. I don't know how many of the isps do this, but if you cant pay for an in-house single dedicated line at a certain speed you will be out of luck on the "party line" level of service.

the internet through the telephone company all started with X25

it was billed by the page (the data payload transferred) and employees at bell labs noted it was the only fair way to bill

that's still true: all of fucking gov workers, telco insiders, are ripping off everyone else by misdirecting fair usage and fair pay

it's usually the websites you visit that don't have the bandwith - not the telco limiting your bandwidth

your an idiot

You're being throttled.

Get a job and get off tracfone.

Just get used to the slow motion porn...

You are getting old any w a y.