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I wonder if this would affect speed tests. I know using Ookla's speed test is inaccurate because ISPs change speeds when connected to certain servers.

Gotta love how ISPs were told they can't slow some things down, so they thought they could get away with speeding other things up instead.

Good. The thing is that network "fast lanes" work by slowing down all other lanes.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The Federal Communications Commission clarified its net neutrality rules to prohibit more kinds of fast lanes.

While the FCC voted to restore net neutrality rules on April 25, it didn't release the final text of the order until yesterday.

The final rule "prohibits 'fast lanes' and other favorable treatment for particular applications or content even when the edge provider isn't required to pay for it... For example, mobile carriers will not be able to use network slicing to offer broadband customers a guaranteed quality of service for video conferencing from some companies but not others," said Michael Calabrese, director of the Open Technology Institute's Wireless Future Project.

Under the draft version of the rules, the FCC would have used a case-by-case approach to determine whether specific implementations of what it called "positive discrimination" would harm consumers.

Under the original plan, "there was no way to predict which kinds of fast lanes the FCC might ultimately find to violate the no-throttling rule," she wrote.

Any plan to put certain apps into a fast lane will presumably be on hold for as long as the current net neutrality rules are enforced.

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