Here in Europe it's all equally fast. I don't remember ever having a throttled service, that sounds like a page out of the dystopian scenarios produced in the era where net neutrality legislation was being proposed/promoted ten years ago or something. There were rumors back then that bittorrent was being throttled (and corresponding protocol obfuscation and port changing) but I never had that myself
Well, Europe has lots of different countries and I've definitely been in countries that are considered to be in Europe where it's not equally fast, and using a VPN can speed up a lot of things.
Obviously there are faster and slower broadband connections; by "equally fast" I assume GP meant that various services can be reached without ISP choking or throttling, thanks to EU-wide network neutrality rules.
Fast.com was created specifically to pinpoint the throttling that was actively applied to Netflix in many occurrences back then. It seems to be mostly gone, especially since streaming video now accounts for >50% of web traffic you can't easily throttle it and hope no one notices.
In the USA specifically, I thought? Or which other regions has that happened in? I remember Comcast specifically having a monopoly in many areas and being able to pressure Netflix into getting money from both sides of the fiber (consumers and service providers)
