Cable companies opposed to 25Mbps broadband

[ThreePinkApples]

The next thing that should be done is make it illegal to have a datacap on broadband connections

[PortentousLad]

it depends on where you live. many places in northeast US have access to at least 25mbs. I have personally 50 down and 10 up. and guess what, hardly anyone is complaining. The prices are reasonable. The people bitching the most are the poor kids that dont want to get jobs. 

 

Now with that out of the way, if you live in an area that does not have broadband, (the boonies)  then maybe you should consider moving. If you say hey stomplar fuck off with you, then feel free, but i say this, then deal with it. you chose location/isolation over convenience in the first place, thats why you live where you live, duh. If you honestly think a cable provider is going to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars just to get 1 customer you're out of your mind. I am on board with the cable companies on that front. 

 

towns and cities here in this part of the state of NY where i live, just about everyone has access to highspeed. its the small group of loud bitchy people that get heard over the millions of satisfied happy customers living day by day and enjoying their services. Its easy to fight for the underdog, but it seems as if most folks are not looking at the big picture.

lol, NY I don't think even NY has enough room for 200 million people to move to.

 

But trolling aside location is key and I for one would move to get better connection options, but you talk like moving is the easiest thing in the world. It's not! It costs money, you have to consider commute and some people would have to move to an entirely different state or even country. So NO moving is not that easy and not always a viable option.

 

However having proper internet connectivity in a (semi)first-world-country, is not to much to as for. Especially if what Logan and Wendell keep saying about the  Telecommunications Act of 1996 is correct, and I should think they've done their homework on that, it has even been paid for already.

[TheKDub]

it depends on where you live. many places in northeast US have access to at least 25mbs. I have personally 50 down and 10 up. and guess what, hardly anyone is complaining. The prices are reasonable. The people bitching the most are the poor.

I currently have comcasts 50mb/s down and I think 10mb/s up, but only get 30 and 6, I pay around $70a month for it, which is about the same as some in other states pay for Google fiber gigabit Internet...

[Hoppa]

*ahem*

 

Telstra seems to be doing a good job for me. Obviously upload speeds are still shit as they have always been though.

 

Wow I get the EXACT same speeds from telstra.

Sadly it's the fastest upload speed they offer in my area.

[Dabombinable]

http://youtu.be/hEI5js4RCpc?t=8m6s
Enough said.
 

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That's on an 8 year old plan that my ISP doesn't even show anymore in any of their comparisons. 

They keep suggesting that I'd switch to fiber, which would change the speeds to 60 Mbps down and 5 Mbps up for an extra 3 EUR/month (I now pay 46 EUR/month). 

However that would require a new modem (provided by the ISP, you may not substitute your own) and I am hearing a lot of complaints about the security of their new ones.