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[handymanshandle]

Just now, knightslugger said:

because they can, and absolutely no one can stop them. Not the FCC, not the FTC, not POTUS, not Congress.

Before it being classified as Title II, nothing stopped them before.

[Megah3rtz]

Just now, wcreek said:

Before it being classified as Title II, nothing stopped them before.

Except for the fact that they had to disclose that to consumers, now they don't. 

[Tiberiusisgame]

1 minute ago, SurvivorNVL said:

I have gigabit.

In Appalachia? Seriously? I'm truly asking you. I'm in DC. I thought that area was devoid of connectivity due to poverty and population. No?

[lookpuppy]

Bomb threat wtf, now were not gonna have net neutrality. If people express there anger like that we are t going to get what we wamt

[XenosTech]

2 minutes ago, wcreek said:

But they never throttled to begin with. Why the hell would they start?

Peak hours are a thing and they usually throttle bandwidth at peak hours if their network is built like putty

[MoonSpot]

1 minute ago, N3rot0xin said:

Jesus just listening to Ajit speak is painful. I'm pretty sure he's just making up facts or cherry picking facts for these companies he's listing.

Agreed.  It's almost as if they think we've forgotten how our services have been throttled, and will again be throttled with renewed vigor.  Not that they've ever really stopped hampering the end user.

 

1 minute ago, SurvivorNVL said:

See.  If there is a bomb threat, just for that on top of repealing net neutrality, they should just add an internet tax for good measure.

Well, I'm sure law enforcement will investigate that since they've saved time by not looking into identity theft and mysterious support the dead had for striking down net neutrality.

[handymanshandle]

Just now, TidaLWaveZ said:

What consumer ISP do you have that doesn't throttle?

I pay for 12mbps down/7 mbps up

I get 13mbps down 1mbps up 

Their data cap is either incredibly high or non existent, because I've downloaded around 350GB of games and stuff one month and there was no throttling.

I have CenturyLink.

[SurvivorNVL]

Just now, Tiberiusisgame said:

In Appalachia? Seriously? I'm truly asking you. I'm in DC. I thought that area was devoid of connectivity due to poverty and population. No?

Got a lot of heroin problems, but there's a ton of municipalities that have built fiber networks out from the North of South Carolina up to West Virginia and Kentucky.  Also Appalachia itself while thinner in population than the coast, has quite a large number of multi-thousand person communities and some many large cities under 1M in pop.  

[TVwazhere]

looks like theyre back?

[Tiberiusisgame]

Just now, SurvivorNVL said:

Got a lot of heroin problems, but there's a ton of municipalities that have built fiber networks out from the North of South Carolina up to West Virginia and Kentucky.  Also Appalachia itself while thinner in population than the coast, has quite a large number of multi-thousand person communities and some many large cities under 1M in pop.  

You learn something new every day. FWIW, our area has a huge crack problem. Can't escape it, I guess.

[handymanshandle]

1 minute ago, XenosTech said:

Peak hours are a thing and they usually throttle bandwidth at peak hours if their network is built like putty

Nah seriously, even in those 'peak hours' my service doesn't seem to have any interruptions to speed. I mean ping might take a little hit.

[SurvivorNVL]

2 minutes ago, Tiberiusisgame said:

In Appalachia? Seriously? I'm truly asking you. I'm in DC. I thought that area was devoid of connectivity due to poverty and population. No?

Even if you can't get fiber, Appalachia has something like four satellite internet providers, multiple cable and DSL providers.  Time Warner or "Spectrum" recently began building up their network throughout the whole of the mountains.  300/25 is becoming more common, if you need it.

[SurvivorNVL]

Just now, Tiberiusisgame said:

You learn something new every day. FWIW, our area has a huge crack problem. Can't escape it, I guess.

Luckily the drug users sort themselves out after enough time.

[Okjoek]

I guess we've been bought a few minutes atleast =/

[Tiberiusisgame]

1 minute ago, SurvivorNVL said:

Even if you can't get fiber, Appalachia has something like four satellite internet providers, multiple cable and DSL providers.  Time Warner or "Spectrum" recently began building up their network throughout the whole of the mountains.  300/25 is becoming more common, if you need it.

Ooh see that's not exactly right. I've been on satellite and it is not like fiber or cable. Firstly, upload is a nightmare, latency is an order of magnitude higher, and you pay a lot for a very low cap. My folks lived on it for a decade before 4G came out. Now they live on a cellular modem.

[Bigbootyjudy]

4 minutes ago, Fruitsnacc said:

Bomb threat wtf, now were not gonna have net neutrality. If people express there anger like that we are t going to get what we wamt

Bomb threat? Is that why they took a break?

[lookpuppy]

This ajit painguy really seems to think hes a funny guy. Making jokes to try and compensate for his retardness.

[XenosTech]

1 minute ago, wcreek said:

Nah seriously, even in those 'peak hours' my service doesn't seem to have any interruptions to speed. I mean ping might take a little hit.

Might not be happening now but it certainly used to happen before. I remember some of my buds couldn't play games or watch vids at certain times of  the day. Used to happen here a lot, until gov opened up the market and all of a sudden no dips throughout the day

[lookpuppy]

1 minute ago, Bigbootyjudy said:

Bomb threat? Is that why they took a break?

Yep

[SurvivorNVL]

Just now, XenosTech said:

Might not be happening now but it certainly used to happen before. I remember some of my buds couldn't play games or watch vids at certain times of  the day. Used to happen here a lot, until gov opened up the market and all of a sudden no dips throughout the day

I've only ever had slowdowns if I lived in a city, even when I had Google fiber, when 2M people get home at 5pm and hop online, everything dips.   Way better living in a small town with fiber.  

[TidaLWaveZ]

1 minute ago, wcreek said:

I pay for 12mbps down/7 mbps up

I get 13mbps down 1mbps up 

Their data cap is either incredibly high or non existent, because I've downloaded around 350GB of games and stuff one month and there was no throttling.

I have CenturyLink.

I've never had caps but throttled by AT&T, Insight, Comcast, Time-Warner routinely. They for sure had timeframes in my area usually about 5-9pm when they limit the speed.

[handymanshandle]

Just now, XenosTech said:

Might not be happening now but it certainly used to happen before. I remember some of my buds couldn't play games or watch vids at certain times of  the day. Used to happen here a lot, until gov opened up the market and all of a sudden no dips throughout the day

Nah, it didn't. In the 5 years we've had CenturyLink. Nothing has changed. 

Title II doesn't really do anything for prices. Nothing stops CenturyLink from charging us $170 over the $70 they charge us now for our service.

[Tiberiusisgame]

So let's say everything he's saying is right and the FTC won't do us wrong. It's like we have any assurances on that, right? Will Ajit lose his job if this is all lies? Nope...

[Brooksie359]

2 hours ago, hey_yo_ said:

It's 12 in the morning here and I'm about to sleep. I'll probably wake up to my Twitter feed nagging me with notifications when the sun rises. I thought I'd just leave this video here. This appeared to my YouTube recommendations.

 

You know what they say, "When they go low you go high. But if they go lower, you go for the jugular." [/s]

 

But yes despite how so many people hate him, violence directed towards him is not the answer and would make things worse. It's better to combat bad ideas with good ideas. 

hey I don't condone violence but if he were to get into an accident it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.

[XenosTech]

3 minutes ago, SurvivorNVL said:

I've only ever had slowdowns if I lived in a city, even when I had Google fiber, when 2M people get home at 5pm and hop online, everything dips.   Way better living in a small town with fiber.  

Now imagine how shitty the network here was then. We have a population close to 300k and it tanked hard from around 7 am to around 11pm and it was worse on weekends.

3 minutes ago, wcreek said:

Nah, it didn't. In the 5 years we've had CenturyLink. Nothing has changed. 

Title II doesn't really do anything for prices. Nothing stops CenturyLink from charging us $170 over the $70 they charge us now for our service.

Just means they like fucking your wallets