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What good is that high advertised speed if you can never get it during most of the day or peak times? We should skip the bullshit and only sustained minimum spe
by Yoofie 3y ago
What good is that high advertised speed if you can never get it during most of the day or peak times? We should skip the bullshit and only sustained minimum speeds should be allowed to be advertised. It would at least give the ISP the incentive to invest more their infrastructure.
- georgemcbay 3y agoAlso what's the point when significant portions of the US have de facto regional broadband monopolies? I mean clear labeling is always better than not, but if you have no actual options how much does it help? Where I live my choice for actual wired broadband is: Spectrum. That's it. My only other viable Internet option is 25 mbps DSL from AT&T. So if I don't like the service from Spectrum: tough luck. If I'm looking at the label before ordering Spectrum and don't like what I see: tough luck. And my situation isn't particularly rare.
- bradknowles 3y agoYup, welcome to my neighborhood in Austin. Literally two miles in any direction, and you've got at least three gigabit-class ISPs, but not here. Spectrum and AT&T DSL are it for "broadband" providers. And I checked, and no T-Mobile and Verizon do not provide 5G fixed wireless service in this neighborhood. That was going to be my backup. AT&T LTE is available here, but it's no faster than DSL and during times of high load, it's much worse than DSL. FML.
- kube-system 3y agoA lot of consumers are going to have two options for the first time soon due to 5G rollouts from T-Mobile, Verizon, and others. And maybe you can use that label to more easily convince your local politicians that they should be giving more companies access to the poles.
- hiatus 3y agoAre nutrition labels useful in food deserts?
- m463 3y agoThank goodness there is a wide variety of choices in food desserts. But I have never seen a nutritional label at a donut shop.
- hiatus 3y agoDo you think less information is better than more information in this case?
- zamnos 3y agoIn case you're not being facetious (hard to tell over the Internet and all), food deserts is a term referring to "an urban area in which it is difficult to buy affordable or good-quality fresh food". Additionally, the FDA now requires nutritional and allergen info to be provided for restaurants, though it is sufficient to make them available online. Here's a direct link to the doughnut store Krispy Kreme's nutritional facts for their Original Glazed® doughnut. https://s3.amazonaws.com/kkd-e1-images.kktestkitchen.com/ecomm/nutrition/11005-nutrition.pdf https://s3.amazonaws.com/kkd-e1-images.kktestkitchen.com/eco... Or Dunkin' Donut's nutritional facts: https://www.dunkindonuts.com/content/dam/dd/pdf/nutrition.pdf https://www.dunkindonuts.com/content/dam/dd/pdf/nutrition.pd... and allergen info: https://www.dunkindonuts.com/content/dam/dd/pdf/allergy_ingredient_guide.pdf https://www.dunkindonuts.com/content/dam/dd/pdf/allergy_ingr... FDA's fact sheet about this: https://www.fda.gov/food/food-labeling-nutrition/fdas-implementation-menu-labeling-moving-forward https://www.fda.gov/food/food-labeling-nutrition/fdas-implem...
- m463 3y agoto be clear, I didn't notice the missing s. feel free to downvote.
- KerrAvon 3y agoI can only get one brand of milk at my store. Is it important that I know whether it’s lactose-free?
- flutas 3y ago> What good is that high advertised speed if you can never get it during most of the day or peak times? Maybe I'm missing something, but the labels use average speeds, not rated maximums.