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Nov 18, 2010

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Panty Saluter posted:

fun fact: someone paid :30bux: for a black line emoticon to make this work

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Nov 18, 2010

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Dessert Rose posted:

do cell towers not have battery backup? I guess that would be some fuckoff huge batteries to run them for longer than a couple days?

i think they mean assuming you can't charge your cellphone

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Nov 18, 2010

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mishaq posted:

1 gbps shared among potentially 3-500 homes is still poo poo and the uplink speed is still garbage


fortunately no one cares about uplink unless they already have access to fiber

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Nov 18, 2010

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Malcolm XML posted:

lmao digital redlining

this happened with google fiber in kansas city except what they did is they only wanted to build where there was "high interest"

turns out to show your interest, you had to fill out a form on their site

now guess where the historic borders between black and white neighborhoods are:

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Nov 18, 2010

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mishaq posted:

lol if you think american cablecos consistently deliver anything close to 150 mbps to subscribers at reasonable rates uniformly across the markets they operate in

actually, surveys show that cable companies serve at or above the rate that customers are billed at essentially all the time; the people that are below average tend to be DSL

you might have issue with the tiers that they bill, but that's got nothing to do with the actual connection

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Nov 18, 2010

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mishaq posted:


cable service definitely varies wildly in both quality (stability) and throughput. just because its better than a lot of dsl doesnt make it not poo poo when you compare it to service you can get in other parts of the world


it's not exactly surprising that a large region has large variation in throughput, if not quality

that being said, you haven't actually shown that cable companies here have significantly lower amounts of stability or throughput (no, pointing out south korea has gigabit doesn't count since the US probably has wider stretches of area with gigabit right now)

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Nov 18, 2010

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Nintendo Kid posted:

doesn't at&t also pull a bullshit thing where u-verse branding is used for both regular dsl, the fiber to the node thing, and actual fiber to the premises?

also just for describing their TV service i think

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