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I wish you were right. My ISP (Time Warner Cable) is basically openly hostile towards its customers and can afford to be since it has a de facto monopoly posit
by georgemcbay 14y ago
I wish you were right.
My ISP (Time Warner Cable) is basically openly hostile towards its customers and can afford to be since it has a de facto monopoly position where I live. I'm pretty sure this Netflix report will do nothing to get them to fix their many, many problems.
I'm very hopeful that in the long term Google Fiber will make a big impact on the ISP landscape here in the United States, but I think it is going to take a very long time and the entrenched players are going to have to be dragged into the present kicking and screaming (and lobbying) and Google is going to have to expand a LOT more before the other guys start making real changes.
- politician 14y agoIs CLEAR (4G WiMax) an option for you? It works pretty well here in Austin, and by well I mean streaming video with minimal buffering.
- georgemcbay 14y agoI haven't tried it but probably not. I do a lot of Xbox Live gaming and I've heard bad things about Clear wrt/ gaming latency (though I've heard it is nice for lots of other use cases).
- untog 14y agoA friend here in NYC tells me that the CLEAR service often gets terrible at peak times.
- evoxed 14y agoPretty much everything gets terrible at peak times in NYC.