Municipal fiber towns
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A lot of the towns here in Colorado already have or are launching their own services. Unfortunately the one where I live isn't one of them yet.
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I don't know about fair, but it is a common practice to make business services pay more than residential. In a way it is a form of subsidy. Businesses pay enough for there to be profit so that residential service is as cheap as possible. I'm not totally opposed to that scheme, but I feel that it doesn't work very well. People run businesses from their homes, some businesses use very little data. It's a murky definition and static IPs are a silly thing to ration out in that way, IMHO.
So while I'm not going to go so far as to weigh in on it being fair or unfair, I think that it is an additional level of complication that is unnecessary and probably not beneficial to anyone, really.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I don't know about fair, but it is a common practice to make business services pay more than residential.
But not government in Virginia. All Cable providers when they sign their Monopoly agreements, er I mean usage contracts. With the localities are required to provide any government agency or government school, library with free cable tv and basic internet. Though pretty much no one is using the cable internet as
you can get better. But the Cable TV business package is highly used in schools and libraries and increases the cost for other business using the service since theirs is free. -
Comcast has been doing something to block speedtest.net here the site works but the test doesn't.
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Wow! I would dream for those prices!!!
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Comcast has been doing something to block speedtest.net here the site works but the test doesn't.
Not information that they want people to find out. That's how bad it is.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
Comcast has been doing something to block speedtest.net here the site works but the test doesn't.
Not information that they want people to find out. That's how bad it is.
It actually isn't bad. I get 10-15ms latency most of the time with 30-40mb down. 10-20mb up.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
Comcast has been doing something to block speedtest.net here the site works but the test doesn't.
Not information that they want people to find out. That's how bad it is.
It actually isn't bad. I get 10-15ms latency most of the time with 30-40mb down. 10-20mb up.
But what are they selling?
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@Dashrender said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
Comcast has been doing something to block speedtest.net here the site works but the test doesn't.
Not information that they want people to find out. That's how bad it is.
It actually isn't bad. I get 10-15ms latency most of the time with 30-40mb down. 10-20mb up.
But what are they selling?
It's a 40mb down, 20up package. Only thing I can get without having a TV package.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I don't know about fair, but it is a common practice to make business services pay more than residential. In a way it is a form of subsidy. Businesses pay enough for there to be profit so that residential service is as cheap as possible. I'm not totally opposed to that scheme, but I feel that it doesn't work very well. People run businesses from their homes, some businesses use very little data. It's a murky definition and static IPs are a silly thing to ration out in that way, IMHO.
I was not complaining about it being "fair" to charge a business more. Just that the "more" seems to vary for no reason based on speed.
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Oh, yes the variance is all over the place.
