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		ademarre on April 24, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: F.C.C., in ‘Net Neutrality’ Turnaround, Plans to A... Fair enough, but what about periods where there is little or no competition between connections of different priorities? Could low-priority transmissions be throttled well before they begin to experience packet loss?

marshray on April 24, 2014 [–]

Packet loss is the way that TCP/IP transmissions are throttled by the network. It's beautiful in its simplicity that way.

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