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Top Bunk Wanker posted:Nobody in any position of power would understand how to ask the question. Justin seems pretty young. He must understand how the internet works and he's a man of the people !
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Heads up boys Verizon FiOS to start capping home broadband connections later this year possibly. Dark days ahead
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Heads up boys Verizon FiOS to start capping home broadband connections later this year possibly. Dark days ahead
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Apr 2, 2016 18:33
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:Why is it that Canada is so terrible and backwards when it comes to Internet and cellphones? ISP data capping is fairly rare here in the states (for now at least). Because the two telecom companies in canada are colluding to keep prices high/ shut other companies out and the commission that oversees them is brutally corrupt. E: It should be noted that my ISP probably just lowered my download/upload speeds based on their data collection robot having seen that I called them criminals.
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Apr 2, 2016 18:34
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Wife had Verizon unlimited data plan grandfathered... but her old rear end original motorola droid only did 3G and apparently VZW 3G phones don't have removable SIM cards. It is hosed. She didn't get service in most populated areas because the towers are 4G now or some bullshit??? gently caress it all. Are those stupid Wally world smarttalk plans worth a drat? Don't they work on everybody's towers or something cool like that? There sure are a lot of question marks in this meaningless GBS shitpost
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Apr 2, 2016 18:51
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paco650 posted:I technically have a data cap but it's a very local private ISP and the guy is scared of me because I breed big-rear end German Shepards for a living (he's terrified of dogs lmbo) so I don't hear anything when I download like a terabyte's worth of games and pornography in 3-4 days. not trolling, but what do you get out of breeding dogs for a living? does it pay well?
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Apr 2, 2016 19:00
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Professor Shark posted:I love how every Canadian knows they're being hosed but we cannot seem to do anything about it I got a sweet corporate plan through my brother in law, $46.50/mo for 5gigs/mo plus all the texting and talking and whatnot. Would rather unlimited data, but here in canada, I'm saving an easy $50/mo with this plan.
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Apr 2, 2016 19:46
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Where are you losers spending your time that doesn't have free wifi? I think my phone only gets 2 GB data a month, but I've never gone over like 500 MB because everywhere I go has free wifi.
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Apr 2, 2016 19:48
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AEMINAL posted:im sorry for you if you believe what i said was a lie lol Europe, a magical country where internet just comes out of the wall, no contract required, just pick one and get surfing.
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Apr 2, 2016 19:49
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Home connection is slow and lovely, so WiFi here is useless. Doubly so when kids are around eating up all the limited bandwidth. And work WiFi is through dumb customer Hotspot. Slow as gently caress and times out frequently.
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Apr 2, 2016 19:50
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Jesustheastronaut! posted:Heads up boys Verizon FiOS to start capping home broadband connections later this year possibly. Dark days ahead All ISPs are going to cap the poo poo out of connections or just jack up the price to make up for lost TV revenue.
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Apr 2, 2016 19:51
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I think I'm a good winner from that grandfathering thing. Three gave me a good deal (but some poo poo phones) with an unlimited data contract a few years ago so I'm kept on an unlimited data SIM deal for £15 a month. The fun part is that there used to be an even better deal which was something like unlimited calls, texts and minutes for something like £20 a month, but they recently started sending letters that they're cancelling those deals, but not to worry as they can just buy other plans instead. Costing £45 (30 now it seems) Sucks to be them! I'm sure it won't happen to me next Marmaduke! fucked around with this message at 22:14 on Apr 2, 2016 |
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Apr 2, 2016 22:11
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:Up here in Canada it's like Mad Max except instead of gas it's mobile data. Like $25/month for a gig.. $65 unlimited everything plan (I get throttled at 10GBs but whatever) that is grandfathered and I'll get buried with one day.
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Apr 2, 2016 22:20
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Jesustheastronaut! posted:Heads up boys Verizon FiOS to start capping home broadband connections later this year possibly. Dark days ahead FiOS.....broadband??? son those are two totally different things
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Apr 2, 2016 22:30
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I pay for 300mb a month. If I healthcare wasn't free I'd probably just loving kill myself.
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how me a frog posted:Europe, a magical country where internet just comes out of the wall, no contract required, just pick one and get surfing. it's a CONTINENT u freakin idiot but ya the rest of your post is correct
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cool and good posted:it's a CONTINENT u freakin idiot but ya the rest of your post is correct No it's not what are you even talking about? Concerning the internet, I know drat well what Europe is you kidding me?
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You can get unlimited bandwidth in Europe but it's illegal to hurt people's feelings on the internet there so what's the point?
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Apr 3, 2016 00:44
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how me a frog posted:Europe, a magical country where internet just comes out of the wall, no contract required, just pick one and get surfing. eh, my city has fiber in basically every apartment complex. sucks to be you, nigga.
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Apr 3, 2016 00:58
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how me a frog posted:No it's not what are you even talking about? i assure you it most definitely is a continent, friend
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cool and good posted:i assure you it most definitely is a continent, friend I remain unconvinced, I've never been there
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I think the pricing is bullshit but you'd have to be pretty ignorant to think its anything like home internet. But that said they make way more off it than they should regardless how do you idiots use that much internet ? I use 1gb a month and that's when fucktons of hours streaming music . you know how much it costs just stop
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Prepaid has its advantages, namely if you blow through data, most providers only throttle, not cut off. Admittedly mine throttles down to 56k, but the forums are still 56k... And since I broke my last laptop, I haven't bothered getting home internet since my landlord provides free cable for the building. Why pay 30a month just to surf the forums and risk going back to playing WoW just cause I can Dr Jankenstein fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Apr 3, 2016 |
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Apr 3, 2016 02:36
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OctoberBlues posted:Where are you losers spending your time that doesn't have free wifi? I think my phone only gets 2 GB data a month, but I've never gone over like 500 MB because everywhere I go has free wifi. Literally every loving place that has free wi-fi around here forces you to sign-in and blocks pretty much every video format so you can't do anything good with it. Even ronald mcdonald can't afford canadian internet. For real though I hope Trump builds a wall up north and then topples it on us, crushing us all to death.
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Apr 3, 2016 02:40
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How long until we get Hi-Def text messages which eat 10mb+ of data just to send simple text?
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That Robot posted:not trolling, but what do you get out of breeding dogs for a living? does it pay well? Raising pups yourself is an 8+-week poo poo job (because they poo poo everywhere, get it?) but it pays off bigtime when you can sell them for $800-1500 a head and litters are anywhere from 5-12 pups so you end up making thousands. Having a purebred stud (which I sadly no longer do) is basically a free windfall whenever one of the neighborhood breeders' bitches goes into heat. I would pimp him out for $100/day and sometimes he'd be out the full two weeks. Also I love my dogs. They're hard workers and loyal pals and only occasionally murder my hens and local wildlife. EDIT: on the other hand, I spend upwards of $100/wk on dog food alone im cute fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Apr 3, 2016 |
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AEMINAL posted:with USA being all about capitalism it's pretty hosed that competition is so loving limited No, the nature of capitalism is a tendency towards monopoly/oligopoly and erecting barriers to entry, competition is enforced by laws and regulation. Also, OP consider using Wi-Fi whenever possible to avoid using up data.
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Apr 3, 2016 02:51
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My city is trying to do municipal broadband, and it is already causing Comcast to threaten lawsuits, even if the city laid its own cables (which they would, since comcast's are mostly poo poo).
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Fasdar posted:My city is trying to do municipal broadband, and it is already causing Comcast to threaten lawsuits, even if the city laid its own cables (which they would, since comcast's are mostly poo poo). Back during that "information superhighway" craze one of the plans cities were drawing up was to put radio (before wifi) in all the payphones since a lot of those had fiber optic lines run into them in the 80s. Never really took off. I don't know if it was an engineering thing or what because that p much makes your data cypher the most conductive groundpath in the infrastructure. ClamdestineBoyster fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Apr 3, 2016 |
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Sure, there is competition for Internet in the US but in reality only one company has run cables past your place, so it does work out to being a monopoly. Google Fibre is getting so much thrown in their way because they're going to run their cables past everyone's house and introduce the thing that isn't a monopoly: healthy competition! Of course they'll be little shits about it and magically increase speeds, decrease prices, improve service but it'll magically only be where Google Fibre runs. This same sort of competition happened in Wellington, New Zealand in the late '90s. A new company ran cables through one part of town. Magically everyone in that area had a deal that was magically $10 cheaper than anywhere else in the entire country. That's right. EVERYONE in New Zealand could get the $49/mo plan EXCEPT for people in the area that offered Saturn where it was AMAZINGLY $39/mo. Incredible stuff! So that's what you'll see where Google Fibre enters the market. PS, 1 GBPS with no monthly cap is $39/mo ... about $30 USD. Competition is awesome and the fact broadband is so poo poo in the US shows you don't have real competition. Sucks to be you!
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Serious post get a Sam Knows box. https://www.measuringbroadbandamerica.com
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kimihia posted:Serious post get a Sam Knows box. Yeah I'm gonna trust the federal government not to keep detailed records of my porn viewing
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kimihia posted:Sure, there is competition for Internet in the US but in reality only one company has run cables past your place, so it does work out to being a monopoly. Google Fibre is getting so much thrown in their way because they're going to run their cables past everyone's house and introduce the thing that isn't a monopoly: healthy competition! i doubt google is lovely enough to pull a bait and switch. the reddit outrage would be immense
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kimihia posted:PS, 1 GBPS with no monthly cap is $39/mo ... about $30 USD. Competition is awesome and the fact broadband is so poo poo in the US shows you don't have real competition. Sucks to be you! Bullshit, the free market isn't free and efficient unless companies have the liberty to collude together and fix prices, anything less is communism. 
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Turdsdown Tom posted:FiOS.....broadband??? son those are two totally different things Yeah wow let's give people a bunch of plexed dual isdn lines in a box that eats up more power than a blender and has to be larger than a loving vcr and call it fiber optic.
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ClamdestineBoyster posted:Back during that "information superhighway" craze one of the plans cities were drawing up was to put radio (before wifi) in all the payphones since a lot of those had fiber optic lines run into them in the 80s. Never really took off. I don't know if it was an engineering thing or what because that p much makes your data cypher the most conductive groundpath in the infrastructure. Pretty sure NYC is turning all its old payphones into wifi hotspots as we speak. Don't know the specifics about access or speed or anything, but it's happening.
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I pay the equivalent of $28 for unlimited 4g data and texts but only 200 mins but who the gently caress rings people on my phone. This also applies for 90% of the EU and all of the USA. I also pay $46 a month for a fibre optic 76MB connection to my flat. Life is good in the UK 
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SpaghetioSexNoises posted:I have run out of Internet for the month. As a mobile, tech savvy adult my 5 GB mobile data plan has been sucked into a black hole of looping gifs, hd pics, and clickbait YouTube videos in less than 10 days and I am getting anxious of having to talk to people instead of loving off on my phone all day. i now have to think about and ration 500mb and I don't think I'll make it. How big is 1 post anyway? Rogers says the internet is $5.00/100 MB. Canadians get hosed.
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apatite posted:Wife had Verizon unlimited data plan grandfathered... but her old rear end original motorola droid only did 3G and apparently VZW 3G phones don't have removable SIM cards. It is hosed. She didn't get service in most populated areas because the towers are 4G now or some bullshit??? It does not need to have a SIM card. Just buy a phone off eBay or whatever and activate it on her unlimited line by using the website. Jesustheastronaut! posted:Heads up boys Verizon FiOS to start capping home broadband connections later this year possibly. Dark days ahead Where does it say this? I don't doubt it but I have been searching and I don't see anything about it. They'd have a lot of balls though; anywhere that FiOS exists so does another cable option. Cablevision for example does not cap home broadband connections. Though I have heard from a bunch of Verizon employees that they regret getting into the cable/TV/internet business and they won't be expanding. No idea if it's true though.
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ClamdestineBoyster posted:Yeah wow let's give people a bunch of plexed dual isdn lines in a box that eats up more power than a blender and has to be larger than a loving vcr and call it fiber optic. yeah i'm still not convinced you're talking about FiOS but nice try dipshit my box is about the size of a small notebook and also my connection speeds are boss. you sound like you ordered internet service from sideshow bob
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