Ok... #1: Price discrimination, because you know you have to reserve >75% of the bandwidth to assure that the guy with the 100mbit plan isn't being pushed out

Ok... #1: Price discrimination, because you know you have to reserve >75% of the bandwidth to assure that the guy with the 100mbit plan isn't being pushed out by the dozen or so users with the 20mbit plan, on a docsis 3.0 network with 16 channels bonded... Really, ever wonder why the cable industry won't actually tell you the line utilization on your node? What they have been really successful at is selling people service and modems that barely give you line quality information, knowing what your modem is actually capped at, or what current activity on the line is privileged information available to only the select few. And finally, the article you linked mentioned that the amps haven't been upgraded in 12-15 years... you may be in a market getting a docsis 3.1 upgrade, but in many markets docsis 3.0 is barely rolled out, and it rolled out at speeds achievable with docsis 2, a standard that is 17 years old. Never mind the insane garbage peddled by the DSL providers in many markets. So I maybe I exaggerated a bit with 20 years, 15..