QUIC traffic throttled on AT&T residential

Thu Feb 20 20:43:22 UTC 2020

> On Feb 20, 2020, at 3:30 PM, Daniel Sterling <sterling.daniel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 2:57 PM Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net> wrote:
>> if the question is will the browser vendor (google) or the broadband provider (att)
>> move first, i can already predict the answer.  my experience (again) with the quic
>> wg is they seem to think there's many options and bad providers will be replaced
>> which seems disconnected from reality.
> 
> Agreed. Since I'm in RTP, I *am* lucky enough to live in an area where
> there are multiple ISPs.
> 
> But not everyone is, and local-loop unbundling is no longer a thing :(
> 
> The average user is at the mercy of their local ISP. So the major
> providers should (but may not have much incentive to) provide decent
> service.
> 

Honestly, there’s part of me that wants to say be lucky you have a choice.

My options here are (1.5m DSL, fixed wireless ISP behind several layers of NAT,
Cellular data or dial-up).

“Watch this space” for my solution.  Several people know what it is, but
my solution isn’t for everyone.

- Jared