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by pedrocr 4103 days ago
>Thus, we will certainly see ISPs continue to use prioritization to manage congestion—prioritization is, in fact, a necessary tool for managing limited resources such as bandwidth.

Bandwidth may very well be a limited resource in some cases but the dispute between Comcast and Netflix is not one of them. The Comcast network has the bandwidth available to serve the customers (since not all sites are congested) and Netflix is willing to peer for free wherever they want them to, so the slowdown is completely artificial and Comcast generated.