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As a user of Google Translate I can tell you that the resulting text is somewhat hilarious.
That was not hilarious at all. It's downright abusive :(
Humor is such a fickle thing.
Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast
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#22I live in EU. I pay 15 EUR per month for 1 Gbps.
The EU is a big(ish) and diverse place. We pay about twice that for 40Mbps VDSL and about 2.5x that for 50Mbps LTE. To be fair, we could get something slightly (~20%) cheaper as we've got a "business" deal to get static IP addresses on each connection. The fastest consumer package we could get at this location (cable) is 500Mbit/s down, 40Mbit/s up for €80/month. (Their business level contracts top out at 300/40 Mbps and €200/mo)
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Speak/Write English on here please, so anybody can understand you. Thanks.
Is that actually a rule on here?
Not really, but it's going to be hard maintaining a community if people can't understand each-other. Maybe in the not-so far future automatic translation will become good enough that people will just comment in their mother tongue and everything will be automatically translated. Unfortunately we're not quite there yet.
That being said HN comments tend to have a more formal tone than many other online forums, so maybe it could be somewhat viable. On the other hand we do use a lot of jargon that might confuse translation algorithms.
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#24I have no sense about network infrastructure or what it costs but, FWIW, I would much rather have 100Mbps for something like $10 per month.
The cost difference between infrastructure for delivering a 100 or 1000mbps capable connection is negligible. It's delivering it sustained to multiple people that's hard.
There are arguments about whether it's better to divide 1000mbps of bandwidth equally between 10 people or giving them all the ability to consume the full 1000mbps. It really depends on the traffic load, most people will never keep a 1000 Mbps connection saturated but as soon as someone finds a way it will negatively impact everyone else sharing the bandwidth.
The reality is most ISPs don't split 1000 Mbps between 10 people to give them each 100 Mbps, they'll split it between 20 or 30 people and give them 100 Mbps max because those provisioned customers are all unlikely to demand their full 100Mbps simultaneously.
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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?
Why not? Spanish and German are widely spoken; if people want to use them to communicate, then let the market decide by virtue of the number of upvotes and responses they get.
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#26Could 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.
So true! There is a giant federal agency, FCC, the primary purpose of which is to preserve telco monopoly. Few people realize this is FCC's purpose. As usual, it's informative to pay more attention to results than to marketing. Even supposed "reforms" (why would an agency functioning in accordance with its stated goals need reform?) like the 1996 law have primarily led to increased revenue for monopoly telcos.
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#27We pay $165-175/mo for unlimited 1gig plans here in Alaska. I have no idea why :(
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#28I'm in the Philippines and I pay $200 for 10Mbps :-(
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#29I pay 75$ CDN for 1Gbps with no cap in Toronto, and I used to think we had it bad in Canada.. "Fighting" with a local cable company (monopoly I assume?) to offer a 1Gpbs service in 2019 is depressing.
You must be one of the lucky ones in Toronto. I remember having only pricier, capped & slower FTH solutions.
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#30I remember watching in Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj how greedy monopolistic ISP corporations like Comcast are trying hard to outlaw town based internet offerings.
Must watch -