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> Neither has hardly ever been described as innovative I'm not sure what you consider innovative, but my local comcast connection has grown by about 10x in ban

> Neither has hardly ever been described as innovative I'm not sure what you consider innovative, but my local comcast connection has grown by about 10x in bandwidth over the last 15 years.

FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
Comcast tops out at 60Mbps where I live, which is basically Beverly Hills, a pretty wealthy area. Oh, the upload speed is a comcastic 5Mbps. It's $80, it's regularly throttled, and it has data caps (although I've gone over and not been charged.) If I had a 4K tv, I'd most likely be over. This is a perfect example of how they stifle innovation by being another impediment/middle man in the move to 4K TV. Previously, I lived in a ramshackle studio apartment in Venice that had Fios where I paid $50 for symmetrical 200Mbps. I don't want or need my ISP to be innovative. I want a dumb, no BS pipe that offers a decent price without bundling, since I don't need tv or a phone
- rhino369 9y ago
  They are rolling out Docsis 3.1 in pretty wide areas. Sooner rather than later you'll be able to get way over 60mbit. And 60 mbit is nothing to sneeze at. >I don't want or need my ISP to be innovative. I want a dumb, no BS pipe that offers a decent price without bundling, since I don't need tv or a phone No, you don't want it to be a dumb pipe. You want an ever increasingly fast service. If they installed a dumb pipe in 2003 and never upgraded you'd be mad as hell.
  - FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
    > And 60 mbit is nothing to sneeze at. It's substandard, especially when living in the 2nd largest city in the US. It's nealy unacceptable when the upload speeds are a paltry 5Mbps. I want, a network that simply provides simple bandwidth and network speed while being completely neutral with regard to the services and applications the customer accesses that offers if not symmetrical, usable upload speeds. A dumb pipe is not a stagnant pipe, upgrades to network speed doesn't make it smart.
    - rtx 9y ago
      Are those things profitable.
      - FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
        are public utilities profitable?

> Neither has hardly ever been described as innovative I'm not sure what you consider innovative, but my local comcast connection has grown by about 10x in bandwidth over the last 15 years.

FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago

Comcast tops out at 60Mbps where I live, which is basically Beverly Hills, a pretty wealthy area. Oh, the upload speed is a comcastic 5Mbps. It's $80, it's regularly throttled, and it has data caps (although I've gone over and not been charged.) If I had a 4K tv, I'd most likely be over. This is a perfect example of how they stifle innovation by being another impediment/middle man in the move to 4K TV. Previously, I lived in a ramshackle studio apartment in Venice that had Fios where I paid $50 for symmetrical 200Mbps. I don't want or need my ISP to be innovative. I want a dumb, no BS pipe that offers a decent price without bundling, since I don't need tv or a phone

rhino369 9y ago
They are rolling out Docsis 3.1 in pretty wide areas. Sooner rather than later you'll be able to get way over 60mbit. And 60 mbit is nothing to sneeze at. >I don't want or need my ISP to be innovative. I want a dumb, no BS pipe that offers a decent price without bundling, since I don't need tv or a phone No, you don't want it to be a dumb pipe. You want an ever increasingly fast service. If they installed a dumb pipe in 2003 and never upgraded you'd be mad as hell.
- FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
  > And 60 mbit is nothing to sneeze at. It's substandard, especially when living in the 2nd largest city in the US. It's nealy unacceptable when the upload speeds are a paltry 5Mbps. I want, a network that simply provides simple bandwidth and network speed while being completely neutral with regard to the services and applications the customer accesses that offers if not symmetrical, usable upload speeds. A dumb pipe is not a stagnant pipe, upgrades to network speed doesn't make it smart.
  - rtx 9y ago
    Are those things profitable.
    - FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
      are public utilities profitable?