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How do they achieve this?

1 pointsby sunny_sabout 15 years ago

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Rustabout 15 years ago
The ISP is simply raising the speed cap on accounts for a specific URL (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/ipl" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/ipl</a>) during a specific time period.<p>Their expression "no buffering" is simply marketing speak for "you won't notice if it buffers for 2 or 3 seconds".