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maratsade
Distinguished Professor IV
5 years ago

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...
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maratsade's avatar
maratsade
Distinguished Professor IV
5 years ago

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. 

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MarkJFine
Professor
5 years ago

I think they have.

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    maratsade
    Distinguished Professor IV
    5 years ago

    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.

     

  • GabeU's avatar
    GabeU
    Distinguished Professor IV
    5 years ago

    Aw.  Those poor people.  I just don't know how they're surviving with 300-500Mbps speeds.  

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    maratsade
    Distinguished Professor IV
    5 years ago

    I know, right??  Who can do anything at those speeds?;P

     

    EDIT: I bet their latency has taken a hit too, probably from 5ms to as much as 20ms.  The horror.

     

    GabeU wrote:

    Aw.  Those poor people.  I just don't know how they're surviving with 300-500Mbps speeds.  

     

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    GabeU
    Distinguished Professor IV
    5 years ago
    maratsade wrote:

    EDIT: I bet their latency has taken a hit too, probably from 5ms to as much as 20ms.  The horror. 

    :p :p :p