The end of the Internet as we know it?

[715]

Your net profit numbers are correct.  Of course net profit is after all those high executive salaries are paid and the teak conference tables ordered  .  We each can talk forever and we'll never convince the other .  It's unlikely you'll get me to love my cable company.  They charge $65/mo for 8/0.5.  I just checked my connection: 0.33/0.37 and a latency of 464 ms.  It often gets bad during prime time, but I will admit tonight is a particularly bad night.  Not as bad as the night with 50% packet loss and an upload speed of 14 Kbps!  I'm not so sure my cable company is putting all that money back into infrastructure

[Vulcan]

I just checked my connection: 0.33/0.37 and a latency of 464 ms.  It often gets bad during prime time, but I will admit tonight is a particularly bad night.  Not as bad as the night with 50% packet loss and an upload speed of 14 Kbps!  I'm not so sure my cable company is putting all that money back into infrastructure

No argument there. That sucks.

[OOZ662]

We really are stuck in my home. We rent an apartment; no satellite. Can't even put one in a bucket of concrete on the porch; it's just not allowed. Verizon DSL is closely priced when you get a package from Comcast, and the cable speed is slightly higher.

But then there's our TV. There aren't any other providers here other than satellite. Having no other option, the prices crank higher and higher.

[Ack-Ack]

Comcast has admitted to reports that they are considering a cap on residential customers at 250 GB per month.  It will be interesting to see how this plays out....

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IIRC, the FCC vetoed that plan and as a result, ComCast is suing to get the caps in place.

ComCast sues the FCC


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