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Meanwhile, on the other side of the fence.....
These are recent posts on the Xfinity community. Subscribers to this terrestrial-based service are seeing their quota of issues. This is just a very small sample of posts. "I can not load certa...
There was a Status Quo song playing on satellite radio the other day when I was driving to town. I don't remember what it was, and though I've heard of them I'm not familiar with their songs.
I'm more into folk rock and rock from the late 60s, classic rock, 80s music and heavy metal from just about all eras prior to the new millennium.
Start playing The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield and CSN and I'm in heaven. :)
The grass isn't greener on the other side of the fence. CenturyLink fiber customers are complaining that their normal downloads of 1000 Mbps have been "unfairly throttled" to between 300 and 500 Mbps.
Oh the humanity.
Lord knows what they've done to us.
CL has abolished caps, as have other insane ISPs. As a result, many of their subscribers can still enjoy absurdly fast speeds (I would posit almost no one needs 1000Mbps DL speeds, or even a third of that), but these users are destroying the internet for millions, and some of those come to this site to complain that tiny HN is to blame, when it's the giants who are doing the damage.
If they haven't done it yet, I hope streaming providers start seriously throttling streaming speeds.
I think they have.
They have in Europe, but I don't think they have here, or at least I haven't seen this. Then again, I haven't been following this trend.
EDIT: a quick news check tells me it's just in the EU. I don't find anything about this being implemented here in the US. Yet.
MarkJFine wrote:I think they have.
Aw. Those poor people. I just don't know how they're surviving with 300-500Mbps speeds.
