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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
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I don't think there's any confusion. Nobody except you thinks unlimited refers to any other aspect of the connection.
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Unlimited never refers to speed. The throughput of everything is always deliberately limited by the ISP. Your line rate is limited by the provider, and your IP throughput is further limited by the IP profile. And sometimes certain protocols are de-prioritized but that's not a limit.
No connection in existence has unlimited throughput.
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Unlimited generally means unlimited except where defined. So eg. a unlimited 10mbit product would be considered by the average person to be unlimited usage at 10mbit throughput. The ASA have even added speeds in their regulations now and disallow significant throttling on unlimited services, not quite sure what counts as significant but I suspect if BT didnt have the p2p exclusion clearly shown on their product pages they would have been in trouble if a complaint went in. I am not even convinced they would be ok if a complaint went in now, noone has tested it yet. But my gut feeling says they would be ok.
I think the ASA were very leniant, personally I think any product which has deliberate throttling of any kind should not be sellable as a unlimited product, if isp's want the label then they pay the price for it. But I am not the ASA and its not my decision to make.
Quite how you comparing ip profiles and line speeds to deliberate brutal throttling of p2p I dont know.