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That sounds really nice; I wish them all the best luck. "PhillyWisper Residential service plans are designed for personal use for 8 hours a day for general int

by dsr_ 7y ago

That sounds really nice; I wish them all the best luck. "PhillyWisper Residential service plans are designed for personal use for 8 hours a day for general internet use including streaming, web surfing, e-mail access, and all other possible online activities. Residential customers are not allowed to host public servers of any kind, use static (public) IPv4 IP addresses, or consume more bandwidth than required to support typical residential Internet activities. PhillyWisper may disconnect or limit the bandwidth for residential customers who use residential service for activities deemed atypical at PhillyWisper’s discretion.Connection speeds for Residential service plans will fluctuate based on network demand." That's not so friendly. IN fact, it's rather badly defined. No mention of IPv6.

radcon 7y ago
> Residential customers are not allowed to . . . consume more bandwidth than required to support typical residential Internet activities. PhillyWisper may disconnect or limit the bandwidth for residential customers who use residential service for activities deemed atypical at PhillyWisper’s discretion. This worries me much more than any privacy issues (which could easily be alleviated with a $5/mo. VPN). Are we supposed to read their minds to determine what "typical" behavior we're allowed to engage in? Or should we just live in constant fear of our internet being arbitrarily disconnected?
wrsh07 7y ago
This seems especially problematic given that many residential users don't know when something is taking significantly more data. Eg my sister was surprised by how much of her quota was used by her Amazon fire stick
atourgates 7y ago
Yeah, it depends on enforcement. I use a great rural, local WISP, and they expressly prohibit P2P download/uploading like BitTorrent, but it’s otherwise unlimited. Hopefully PhillyWisper’s service is similarly structured.

by dsr_ 7y ago

radcon 7y ago

> Residential customers are not allowed to . . . consume more bandwidth than required to support typical residential Internet activities. PhillyWisper may disconnect or limit the bandwidth for residential customers who use residential service for activities deemed atypical at PhillyWisper’s discretion. This worries me much more than any privacy issues (which could easily be alleviated with a $5/mo. VPN). Are we supposed to read their minds to determine what "typical" behavior we're allowed to engage in? Or should we just live in constant fear of our internet being arbitrarily disconnected?

wrsh07 7y ago

This seems especially problematic given that many residential users don't know when something is taking significantly more data. Eg my sister was surprised by how much of her quota was used by her Amazon fire stick

atourgates 7y ago

Yeah, it depends on enforcement. I use a great rural, local WISP, and they expressly prohibit P2P download/uploading like BitTorrent, but it’s otherwise unlimited. Hopefully PhillyWisper’s service is similarly structured.