damn how will the isps afford the maintenance costs of digging up a cable once every 100 years
Around my part of the woods I can either pay 50€ for Gigabit over coaxial cable or 35€ for 16 MBit DSL. Less than 2% of the speed for 70% of the price… wtf?
I wish they would offer a basic, affordable option for singles or people who don’t need a high bandwidth connection. Charging over 30€ foe it seems excessive.
Low-income plans
Love to means-test fucking everything. You can’t just have $15/mo internet. You have to plead poverty for fear of middle class or (god forbid) rich people getting a basic utility at a sensible price.
Nevermind how means testing inevitably creates these legal hurdles for administrators to leap over. The act of means testing is inevitably what businesses target in an effort to avoid compliance. “Oh! It’s too hard to tell who qualifies! Undo burden! Undo burden!” It wouldn’t be a burden if the ISP was limited to a universal flat rate. It wouldn’t be a burden if municipalities owned and operated their own independent flat-rate internet service as a public utility.
The blue states always have the cool stuff!
And red states are welfare states with crabs in a bucket mentality
“We can’t afford rent, bread and Internet, what happened, fuck socialism I guess???”
- standard American who voted for the billionaire party
“Oh, yeah? Well at least we passed laws requiring us to identity ourselves if we wanna use porn, lol! You can keep your cheap broadband internet! Ha!” — Red States
Why would you need broadband internet if it isn’t for porn in the first place?
Just a coincidence, I’m sure.
Wish I hadn’t built my life in the red hellhole
What about me? When I was born Ohio is what we’d now call blue. I say it that way because when I was born, states didn’t have colors. In fact in 1980 when reagan won, the map he won was blue. Today that wouldn’t make sense, so you get my point.
By the time I was a teenager Ohio had become a swing state.
And now it’s red.
Where the fuck is my blue ohio I was brought up in???
I used to live in Alberta and I’m still reeling from that.
Bret Hart still running around up there complaing about goldberg?
Something something freedom something? *
* Offer not valid in all 50 states, void where prohibited
The funniest (or saddest?) part of all this is that $15 is considered “low”. It’s still pretty high for something so vital (and tbf I’d much rather see a requirement for like 5-10 Mbps at $5 or so; you don’t need much bandwidth for meaningful, very useful service).
It’s crazy how many people equate Mbps latency. Broadband companies spread this lie that faster is better.
You can game lag free and have VoIP calls with zero interruption on 5Mbps.
Only thing more Mbps helps with is downloading larger files faster.
Still remember playing WoW on under 5Mbps, updating was painful but otherwise playing was fine
You can game lag free and have VoIP calls with zero interruption on 5Mbps.
Yeah on like… 2-4 devices total lol.
What if I want to play MariokartDS online with 8 of my friends on the same connection?
My WEP router advertises 11 Mbps WiFi, I want to use the whole thing.
^/s
I see the /s , but I remember hosting 16 people lobbies with 5 Mbps. Its not about bandwidth, but more throughput. Yes, some overhead will cause bandwidth issues, but most of it is THROUGHPUT (ping/ latency).
True, I remember doom running practically smooth on IPX and IPv4.
I guess it could also depend on the game implementation. Sandbox games end up using a little bit more sending shared world data, but even then as long as you’re not loading a million objects at once, you’ll probably be fine.
1 Mbit/s should be free.
I understand the argument but there is far less issues and costs associated with fibre connections which are virtually limitless in terms of speed - theoretical limits apply butbwe are still seeing new equipment at either ends that allow for multiple tbps speeds.
I not disagreeing but $15 would still put it at one of the cheapest if not the cheapest vital service. I’m not sure you could get any other utility for much lower than that.
Lol Internet Essentials is $10 for 50Mbps (if you qualify, that is)
Making the connection slower doesn’t magically make it cheaper.
I wish California would implement this law as well.
