That must have been the part I was remembering that confused me. You guys are right, you only slow down when the pipe is actually full. Which I don't actually understand why that's such a huge fuss. Big Red is right, that IS better then what I would get with ATT. My Charter 100mbits cable connection only runs at like 50 to 60mbits midday, but after 10p that thing is blazing at 80+ mbit. How is that different? That it happens to everyone compared to just heavy users?
I hate my my unlimited being watered down, trust me. But I would be slowed down anyway by physics. If the site is overloaded, it's slow, period. All verizon is doing is making sure I'm the lowest spot on the totem pole. I actually can't even tell if they're capping the speed or just making my packets the least important. That could mean I get bursts of decent speed if I'm doing Facebook loading or something (if I get lucky and it's teetering at like 99% capacity) instead of just 100kbps hard limit no matter what.
Also, I totally still feel lucky that I never look at my data usage because "who cares?" I'm unlimited. I secretly smile when a friend (or family member, I'm horrible) gets a new iPhone with 1gig data or something and the first thing they do is turn off data usage or start asking where any public wifi is. GOOD! You limited guys run off to the wifi and be scared of huge overages. You limited people DON'T stream music because you don't really understand how much you can use before $$$. Keep that train of thought going so you shift as much usage OFF the network to stay safe within your cap so I can cruise by with my unlimited with good speeds!
(So if I'm throttled a little bit, stream all the music 1gig user, use all the data up, tomorrow on your drive home you'll be waiting till you reach wifi)
(Also, I'm on ATT, grandfathered unlimited from original iPhone days and probably use ~2gig a month, but if I travel, that might be 4 or 5gig. I don't abuse, but man not paying attention to it is great!)