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...Then there is the "I paid for the BW" argument. No you didn't. You don't pay enough to get your own HD streaming connection through the network...

There are some people who do pay for the bandwidth.

When I lived in the city, I could get "standard" cable modem speeds for one price and for a higher price I could get 25Mbps. The extra speed was worth the relatively minor cost.

Now I live out in the sticks and the best I can do is microwave internet. They still have a tiered pricing plan, even though they do not like to sell the highest one. But I am still paying for my bandwidth.

I'm living with WiMax service with 15 Mbps down / 7 Mbps up. It's adequate. A couple miles south, the CableOne customers can get 100 Mbps or 1 Gbps service via cable. The Big Dog company in town is rolling out "TruFiber" to the south and east of me right now. It is fiber to the premises with bi-direction 1 Gbps service. Not too shabby for Pocatello. I spoke with the vendor. They are marginally capitalized, so this is going to be a slow roll out. My area is slated for Summer 2017. That last mile performance sounds great. My eagerness to jump on the service depends on whether the backhaul they have set up is suitable. The Syringa network that provides backhaul for my WiMax is all fiber optic with connections to Boise and SLC. Not sure whether it is Tier 1, Tier 2 or Tier 3 connections. The point is the choice needs to be measured in the overall performance of the ISP product. TruFiber will likely be between under conditionals of high winds / rain that impact WiMax connectivity via microwave rain fade and twisting towers such that point to point performance is impaired. Fiber is sensitive to street washouts, cutting by utility and street maintenance crews and natural earth movement. Nothing is perfect.

When you pay for long distance wifi bandwidth you are the closest to actually paying mainly because the backhaul can support every user on the tower. Cell service is the same: tower limited. That’s why cell service providers generally cap downloads. But the people with cable are generally not paying for the bandwidth. The cell company oversubscribes their shared links. That’s a problem, they are misleading their customers. But that has nothing to do with “neutrality”.