[merrylander]

So Netflix, Hulu, et. al should be allowed to burn bandwidth at will? Our Comcast package and my cable modem and router are quite able to stream movies if I wanted to watch them on a PC monitor, but at the Netflix end the requirement woul be horrendous.

People (and even network proviiders like to go on about how fast they can download. I have a number of packages that either do daily updates or frequent downloads and they all run at different speeds quite simply because the speed is controlled by the server.