From: beretta@nun-ya-bizness.com   
      
   On 6/20/19 11:33 AM, hohum wrote:   
   > How does an internet company slow one users data feed while letting another   
   > user on the same router account faster speeds? They have sophisticated   
   > methods of determining exact location of signal/antenna to do this, if I am   
   > not mistaken. These ISPs play with your connection   
   >   
   A router you own or a router they own? If the latter, you could tailor   
   it based on MAC address.   
      
   But, nobody is doing this. Nobody is making your connection slower than   
   your wife/roomate/whatever's connection.   
      
   I'm always amused when some person thinks they're so special that the   
   employee of some ISP is going to risk prison just to fuck with them a   
   little bit.   
      
   It's FAAAAAR more likely that your two devices have different   
   capabilities.  Take WiFi for example.. In the very early days of WiFi,   
   we had the 802.11b specification. That spec afforded a maximum speed of   
   11 megabits per second over a "WiFi" connection.   
      
   Any device that was manufactured during that time, can only do 11   
   megabits per second over a wifi connection even today. And, that's only   
   if your fancy new router has the capability to make fall back   
   connections to old protocols, in the first place.   
      
   If your router will talk to it it doesn't matter one shit that you have   
   a gigabit connection. Your device is going to communicate at 11mbps   
   period.  Any devices manufactured during the 802.11a/g eras will be able   
   to chat at 54mbps.  And so on and so forth.   
      
   It's also quite possible that you'll get worse speeds if your standing   
   on the other side of a wall that is packed with foil-backed insulation.   
   You might also be standing more closely to your neighbor's router that   
   is broadcasting on the same damn channel. Maybe your device has a signal   
   level of -70dbi and a noise floor of -80dbi.  You aren't gonna get   
   awesome speeds out of a SNR (signal to noise ratio) of -10dbi.   
      
   You take two brand new iPhones, connect them to the same router, and   
   then stick one on the other side of metal foil backed insulation and you   
   sure-as-shit aren't gonna see the same download speeds.  Same goes for   
   two iPhones with different signal qualities.  The one seeing the router   
   at -50dbi is going to get vastly better speeds than one that sees it at   
   -75dbi.   
      
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