Earlier quoted context omitted.
Speak/Write English on here please, so anybody can understand you. Thanks.
Is that actually a rule on here?
Nothing about language is indicated in the guidelines or the FAQ.
Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast
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#12We have a café ran by a French family in our building on a side street. It’s been getting raving reviews on TripAdvisor before it opened its doors. Reviews include cooked dishes which the place is not allowed to serve since they’re not suppose to have a full working kitchen and ovens. Also noteworthy: very similar description appearing over and over.
TripAdvisor is a scam. I’ve seen it in many places I’ve visited and sent in reviews. There’s hardly a correlation between the review and reality.
Mostly it’s a service Americans need because of their complete and total luck of exposure to other cultures when they travel, so they need someone to give a meaningless rating.
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#14As a FoCo resident, Comcast sent me an email saying that they're "upgrading our network" and "increasing your Internet download speed". Not really clear what that means until I see an updated rate sheet. I'm sure this is entirely a coincidence and has nothing to do with the fact that they suddenly have some competition now.
Seems that most cable providers do this when an incumbent moves into town. It’s happened to me in two separate metro areas and just happened to my buddy in Phoenix.
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#15Could someone please explain the background to someone not from the US? Why is competition so scarce in this field in the US? Is it just the cost of infrastructure over large distances, or is something else at play here?
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Speak/Write English on here please, so anybody can understand you. Thanks.
Is that actually a rule on here?
Es ist einfach eine Frage der Höflichkeit, dass wir in der "Quasi-Weltsprache" Englisch kommunizieren. Ich denke das trägt im Internet allgemein zum Verständnis bei und sollte dementsprechend auch hier zum guten Ton gehören. Ob man es in irgendwelche Regeln schreiben muss weiß ich nicht, ich dachte ich kann ja trotzdem mal danach fragen.
Better this way?
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#17I live in EU. I pay 15 EUR per month for 1 Gbps.
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#18I have no sense about network infrastructure or what it costs but, FWIW, I would much rather have 100Mbps for something like $10 per month.
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#19Could someone please explain the background to someone not from the US? Why is competition so scarce in this field in the US? Is it just the cost of infrastructure over large distances, or is something else at play here?
It's that and incumbents get laws made to preserve their monopolies or make it more expensive for competition to start up.
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#20As a FoCo resident, Comcast sent me an email saying that they're "upgrading our network" and "increasing your Internet download speed". Not really clear what that means until I see an updated rate sheet. I'm sure this is entirely a coincidence and has nothing to do with the fact that they suddenly have some competition now.
> "upgrading our network"
They actually where not doing this before because it's probably a bad idea.
Modern cable networks look like this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_fiber-coaxial#/media/Fi...
Fiber goes to copper which then splits out to a large number of homes. The copper line near your home can do multiple gigabit but that needs to be shared with everyone else on the tree.
So selling higher speeds is easy, but reaching them for everyone requires splitting trees with new fiber drops. Providers usually do the first and only some or none of the second in order to sell bigger numbers and compete with Fiber.
A similar thing happened to DSL trying to compete with cable, lets look where that is now.
https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/reports/measuring-broad...
See chart 15.3, DSL across the ISP industry only provides advertised download speeds 40% of the time. In any other industry this would be considered blatant fraud.