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>an email from my ISP That's pretty funny. I am from Kazakhstan myself and our largest (pretty much monopolist) internet provider has been encouraging ""piracy

>an email from my ISP That's pretty funny. I am from Kazakhstan myself and our largest (pretty much monopolist) internet provider has been encouraging ""piracy"" for as long as I can remember. About 10 years ago a bunch of local media companies (making money from selling badly translated Hollywood movies/video games/etc) lobbied a new law making operating all torrent trackers illegal, and banning access to everything they could find carpet bombing-style. Well, the ban lasted for less than a week, and was lifted after some heavy lobbying by said provider, who was beginning to lose a share of their most valuable customers. Here's another anecdote: in ~2012, when I was getting an FTTH connection, their representative used a popular torrent on my machine to measure the upload/download speeds through the freshly laid cable.

big_chungus 7y ago
You're kidding; Kazakhstan has FTTH? I'm in America and still not even close...
- throwaway8941 7y ago
  Yeah. I pay $10/month for 100 Mb/s with very stable upload and download speeds. You can get 1 Gb/s for $50/mo. I have been serving 10-20 TB each month with no complaints from my provider. But you have to remember that we make something like 5-10 times less than Americans. 100 Mb/s is still very affordable though.
- lunchables 7y ago
  There is FTTH in more places than you might realize: https://broadbandnow.com/Fiber https://broadbandnow.com/Fiber I live in Nashville and we have FTTH from both AT&T and Google as well as gigabit service from Comcast. I think the problem is the US is really, really big and we widely deployed cable which has been "good enough" (DOCSIS 3.x at 300, 500Mb/s or more) that there historically hasn't been much incentive for people to deploy really expensive fiber networks. But it is certainly improving all the time. I think services like Starlink and fixed 5G are really driving carriers to start deploying more fiber to compete.

big_chungus 7y ago

You're kidding; Kazakhstan has FTTH? I'm in America and still not even close...

throwaway8941 7y ago
Yeah. I pay $10/month for 100 Mb/s with very stable upload and download speeds. You can get 1 Gb/s for $50/mo. I have been serving 10-20 TB each month with no complaints from my provider. But you have to remember that we make something like 5-10 times less than Americans. 100 Mb/s is still very affordable though.
lunchables 7y ago
There is FTTH in more places than you might realize: https://broadbandnow.com/Fiber https://broadbandnow.com/Fiber I live in Nashville and we have FTTH from both AT&T and Google as well as gigabit service from Comcast. I think the problem is the US is really, really big and we widely deployed cable which has been "good enough" (DOCSIS 3.x at 300, 500Mb/s or more) that there historically hasn't been much incentive for people to deploy really expensive fiber networks. But it is certainly improving all the time. I think services like Starlink and fixed 5G are really driving carriers to start deploying more fiber to compete.