I’m not sure how many people noticed this and even whether this is something worth noticing, but Starhub’s latest marketing materials boast of a speed boost for their users when they visit Partner Sites.
Over in the States, there is a raging debate with regards to Net Neutrality. Basically, there are those that want to allow companies providing Internet access to be able to give preference to the packets of information from companies that pay a premium and those that want the infrastructure delivering the packets of information to be blind to source and destination.
I’m not sure how Starhub is implementing their promise since maybe they have excess capacity that they can allow high speeds to access other sites, and even higher speeds to the partner sites ( and whether the partner sites are paying for all this ) but sooner or later, network bandwidth is going to be a zero-sum game - giving precedence to one group of information packets is going to be at a cost of others.
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