Verizon made an enemy tonight • Hacker News Board

Re: Verizon made an enemy tonight

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Post by cnst » Fri, Jul 18, 2014, 9:29 PM UTC

kaeawc wrote: post #11

sudonim wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi! OP here. I'm in NYC. I tunneled to Washington D.C. and that seemed to do it. I figured I'd try a location as close as possible first.

Tried the same thing on TWC from NYC with no difference in speed. Will experiment with other setups. Also would like to note we pay for (and can get) 50 Mbps down. Netflix comes in at ~560 kbps and just stays there.

It's not the location that matters, it's which uplink to Verizon a given VPN goes though.

Re: Verizon made an enemy tonight

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Post by btown » Fri, Jul 18, 2014, 10:26 PM UTC

pconf wrote: post #49

yxhuvud wrote: post #22

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The beef of the problem is that Verizon is both a consumer ISP and a transit provider.

It looks to me like the OP is making more of a beef about Verizon's advertised speeds being significantly different from their actual speeds. That Verizon is continuing to advertise speeds that it intentionally is not delivering, IMO, constitutes fraudulent advertising. This can and should be the basis of, and resolved by, a class action suit. It's no different really than an ISP that advertises 100Mbps, has ethernet…

Of course, their actual advertisements include disclaimers so they're not actually making claims about their upstream connections - legally, they would be able to get away with a T3. The problem is that there's no economic reason for a competitor to lay their own last-mile lines to the vast majority of consumers and compete on upstream features, since not enough people care enough to switch for them to recoup the capital investment. It's truly a first-mover-takes-all scenario.

Re: Verizon made an enemy tonight

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Post by _m_ » Sat, Jul 19, 2014, 4:45 PM UTC

Maxious wrote: post #18

They have trained their agents on how to respond to complaints about speed... https://twitter.com/CyrisXD/status/489950468483731458/photo/...

The funny thing is even though the rep claims that speedtest.net is fake, the Verizon speedtest service at http://my.verizon.com/services/speedtest/ is powered by Ookla, the company behind speedtest.net