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When Hetzner say "some Germany ISPs" they actually mean Deutsche Telekom – Germany's largest ISP with almost 50% market share and also the only Tier 1 network.

Deutsche Telekom has been squeezing everyone for transit bandwidth. They're also the only network and ISP to NOT peer with DE-CIX. (they only added their first 10Gbps uplink just a few months ago) I've even seen Akamai bottleneck for weeks on end until they agreed to pay for more 10Gbps ports to DTAG.

What Hetzner Online is offering is merely an effective solution to alleviating a real problem. Supporting net neutrality won't fix your paying users video streaming QoS issues.

As frustrating as it is as a matter of principle, many companies will want to utilize an offering like Hetzner's.



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