Verizon Wireless customers complained this week that the company was throttling Netflix traffic. With talk of net neutrality ringing in their ears, people were upset to find that download speeds were capped at 10Mbps. When Netflix denied implementing a cap, the finger of suspicion pointed at Verizon. Now the company has owned up to testing a new "video optimization" system, but it's not clear how this resulted in the cap-like effects experienced by many users. Verizon Wireless customers found that using Netflix's own speed testing tool revealed a maximum transfer rate of 10Mbps. However, once a VPN was introduced, this…
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