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Broadband access is very much a freedom thing if Comcast is your only option. I live in one of America's wealthiest cities and the undisputed tech capital of t
by njorth 11y ago
Broadband access is very much a freedom thing if Comcast is your only option.
I live in one of America's wealthiest cities and the undisputed tech capital of the east coast, yet finding a decent ISP is difficult bordering on impossible.
There's exactly one good ISP in my city called netBlazr, but they don't service my neighborhood. So we get Comcast instead: bandwidth rates approaching a tenth of advertised speeds, outright throttling for certain services, cheap hardware with limited firmware, ubiquitous surveillance, and no legal recourse at all.
Freedom.
- eli_gottlieb 11y agoUhhh... we get RCN over here in Somerville...
- njorth 11y agoRCN's on my radar for sure, but XMission is the standard against which I'm comparing services. What assurance is there that RCN won't pull any bullshit like blocking SMTP or throttling Tor?
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- javajosh 11y agoA dearth of broadband options in a major american city doesn't seem like a freedom issue! How much bandwidth does free speech require?
- njorth 11y agoAt least 100 kb/s upload, assuming you don't edit torrc.