This is something I just don't fucking get, when I try to stream a movie it often pauses and breaks up with buffering issues. Yet when I employ my methods for downloading streaming files I can set a dozen files downloading at once and they almost always finish in just a few minutes. WTF? If movies would stream as fast as they download I could have a half dozen movies playing at once and they would never pause or break up.

There must be some artificial method to cause streaming videos to stream slower just so they will fuck up and be annoying.
I mean I just downloaded a half dozen movies in under 5 minutes. WTF can't they stream as reliably?

Now when I watch them in my stand alone player I have full control.

They throttle streaming on most sites that host streaming ...

Well sure, but the links I download from are the same links the online player gets.  So if a show is an hour long and basically streams to the downloader in 5 minutes which is a 12:1 ratio then why can't it even manage a 1:1 ratio when streaming online? 

Your service provider will throttle your service too if they see that you are hogging bandwidth.

I recently discovered that my supposed unlimited data on my wireless broadband, which hooks up to the nearest cellphone tower (basically it operates like a cellphone), is limited. Well, the data consumption is. For a while I thought the service provider was throttling me. But, as it turns out, the cellphone tower that I hooked up with was throttling my connection. Not only that but they eventually booted my router completely. Mind you, I was living in the suburbs of Chicago during this fiasco, but after I moved to the city, everything has been smooth sailing. So I have a third party involved in the functioning of my broadband connection. I'm not necessarily pissed about this, but it does add to a bit of frustration when third parties get involved.

The service isn't fast (3mBps) but it's ample, and I don't have to deal with service plans or hidden fees after the initial starting date is over (that shit makes me furious). 

I've got cell network internet too.  I don't get throttled, but I do have a data limit.  It's really irritating because it's so fast I can torrent an hour-long episode of my favorite British show in 5-7 minutes, or "borrow" a cracked copy of Windows (4+GB) in 20 minutes so it's *really* easy to blast through my month's allotment of 20GB in a single day.  And they don't cut you off, they just charge an extra $10 for every GB you go over.  They do it on purpose.

That can add up quickly; even just watching YouTube videos ...
(Which FB automatically plays FOR YOU NOW??? WTF???)

Yeah, I've found I can EITHER listen to my radio shows OR watch youtube videos a few times a month.  Yeah, youtube is a stupid data hog.

I hate downloading, I always just stream. My hard drive is so cluttered I just wouldn't have the space to dl.

(Which FB automatically plays FOR YOU NOW??? WTF???)

It is sooo annoying

Moreso for people with bandwidth caps ...
I'm shocked more and more people don't rebel against that idiotic practice ...

I'm shocked people put up with data caps. I opt to not even have data on my phone rather than try to figure that shit out.

What really pisses them off is when you discover they charge by the kilobyte but advertize gigabytes.  So my limit is 20 GB, but since they count the limit as 20,000,000 K, I really only have like 18.2 GB available.  Their data tracker app's progress bar counts GB so you have to do your own math to see how close you really are to the limit.  I have the cantenna and router into the same power strip and when I hit 95% I switch it off and go into data exile for the remainder of the month.

I'm shocked people put up with data caps. I opt to not even have data on my phone rather than try to figure that shit out.

I was also referring to FB automatically wasting it for you without permission ...

Yeah, totally, and that's annoying. But it's less intensely annoying for those of us without any sort of data cap.

I don't have a cap; I was just saying ...
It should be considered wrong and remedied ...

As long as it's costing tens of thousands of people hundreds of dollars in overage charges every month IT WILL NOT BE "fixed".

Yeah, I know ...