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> you dont buy a pint of milk and get between a half pint and a full pint depending on what time of day it is My point exactly ! How is it beneficial to the c
by traceroute66 3y ago
> you dont buy a pint of milk and get between a half pint and a full pint depending on what time of day it is
My point exactly !
How is it beneficial to the consumer to allow the telcos to market a product where they can perfectly legally only deliver half of the product at certain times of day.
A 50% difference is just nuts. 10–20% difference, fine, we could argue that's the price you pay for the cheap service, but 50% ? That's just not on !
- ufocia 3y agoYou're right, they should be more transparent in their advertising, so should airlines telling you that you only have a x% chance of getting there on time because of seats being oversold. Though I'm guessing that if they didn't overcommit the bandwidth, your Internet costs would be much higher and the network utilization abysmally low. Network usage tends to be lumpy.
- cqqxo4zV46cp 3y agoAustralia’s advertising regulations now require advertising typical evening speeds. There are a handful of good ISPs that will (voluntarily) publicly publish backbone utilisation metrics so you can get a feel for contention. Australia’s Internet policy is far from perfect, but, again, Americans need only look basically anywhere else on Earth to see how things could be, instead of sitting around hypothesising.