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There's no point being angry here, anger won't solve this mess or give you "unlimited internet". I'm just relaying the reality. There's _no definition_ of "unli
by Karrot_Kream 5y ago
There's no point being angry here, anger won't solve this mess or give you "unlimited internet". I'm just relaying the reality. There's _no definition_ of "unlimited internet" that's enforceable by law. The closest you have is a DIA circuit which is as close as you'll get to having an ethernet cable directly connected into an ISP router to your house. Other than that, "unlimited internet" doesn't mean anything. A residential ISP will do some best effort packet routing, and a business-grade non-DIA ISP package will give you prioritized packets and usually an SLA on your connection. Some connections may give you a data cap per month while others don't, but even without a data cap there's no guarantee that your packets will be prioritized or even not dropped due to congestion. The only industry standard that guides QoS and bandwidth metering is the standards that networking equipment vendors come up with in their implementations and that's the only thing offering a semblance of repeatability to this industry.
IMO the solution has to come from the FTC. The US has neglected to regulate telecoms in the name of innovation for a long time, but now so much of everyday life happens atop telecom companies that I think it's imperative they regulate properly. This includes term sheets showing exactly what internet service is being offered and maybe just doing away with the term "unlimited internet" altogether.