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Rumor has it that the rising popularity of high bandwidth applications (like slingbox) are causing problems for providers who have promised "unlimited bandwidth." Turns out that in reality, what you're paying for is "unlimited," but what you're actually getting is just "A whole lot, way more than you could have imagined using all at once just a few years ago." So the guys who own the Big Pipes that we all rent each month are starting to cry uncle, employ packet shaping, and generally try to limit people from using things like slingbox without saying "Don't use slingbox."

Neat stuff going on behind the scenes, you know.
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