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At first this struck me as expensive, in the sense that per Gbps, I get a much better price from Comcast. And then I remembered all of the externalities that co
by stuart78 7y ago
At first this struck me as expensive, in the sense that per Gbps, I get a much better price from Comcast. And then I remembered all of the externalities that come along with that price: data caps, potential monitoring, bad customer support and whatever else I'm forgetting.
How much is avoiding those actually worth to me? Probably pretty close to the price difference, actually, and if those things are really important to me I should be willing to walk the walk and pay for them.
I won't, because I don't live in Philadelphia, but I hope to have real viable alternatives where I do live.
- apeace 7y agoDon't forget to read their customer agreement: > 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. That sounds to me like exactly what Comcast does. Torrent too many files of open data? No internet for you.
- Wheaties466 7y agoISPs have to put this in there to protect themselves. Most small ISPs don't care what you do or how much bandwidth you consume unless you are degrading the performance of their other customers. Source: I used to work at a small WISP similar to philly wisper.
- apeace 7y agoSorry I caught this so late, but no, ISPs do not have to use language like this to protect themselves. They can also provide the bandwidth the customer is paying for 100% of the time (or give the customer's money back), like my company does: https://www.pilotfiber.com/legal https://www.pilotfiber.com/legal