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My sister lives in a town in Massachusetts with community-run Internet. She's always freaking out about broadband caps, violation of which apparently triggers m
by danielweber 12y ago
My sister lives in a town in Massachusetts with community-run Internet. She's always freaking out about broadband caps, violation of which apparently triggers massive fees.
- ianlevesque 12y agoYes, this one anecdote must mean the entire concept of municipal broadband is untenable.
- eksith 12y agoIs the internet truly municipal or is only the fibre community owned? The distinction is important as a lot of private ISPs pay the local government a fee to use their existing infrastructure, while they provide the connectivity to the rest of the internet. This arrangement also comes with the ISP's own flavor of EULA.
- blocktuw 12y agoCan you elaborate on which town and who provides the service? The example above you cited Chattanooga and epbfi.com website that basic service costs $57.99/mo for 100 Mbs internet with no reference to a cap. Your comment seems disingenuous that you don't provide any details.
- simoncion 12y agoEDIT: I can't read. :/ The linked article mentions that by Oct, 2013, the price for 1Gbit from EPB was reduced ~$70/month, and the folks who were paying ~$58 for 100mbit got bumped to 1Gbit at no additional charge.
- Zigurd 12y agoI live in Massachusetts and I would have surely heard about this Stalinist regime. Where are these broadband Bolsheviks?
- danielweber 12y agohttp://www.shrewsbury-ma.gov/egov/docs/1231966028252.htm http://www.shrewsbury-ma.gov/egov/docs/1231966028252.htm
- Zigurd 12y agoExcept for the useless "Lite" level, their bandwidth caps are up in the hundreds of gigabytes. That sounds pretty typical. Unless you are a photographer or videographer moving workflow or backups over that account, your not going to touch those caps.