Re:Community-Owned Fiber Networks: Value Leaders in America
by Godel_unicode on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @01:07AM
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Can you get decent upstream with that? Upstream always seemed to be where cable internet fell over for me. Hard to run backups over a 10mbps link.
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Re:Community-Owned Fiber Networks: Value Leaders in America
by walshemj on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @10:33AM
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But 99% of home bb users don't do that you want professional level service on a consumer service that is not and never will be designed (cost reasons) to replace business service.
Re:Community-Owned Fiber Networks: Value Leaders in America
by Godel_unicode on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @12:25AM
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I have gig symmetric for $79.99. not a promotional rate, no caps.
Edit: the reason it costs more for symmetric with some ISPs has very little to do with "cost reasons" and very much to do with market segmentation. It's the same reason math coprocessors used to cost extra, even though it was on every package already. If a small group will be the only users and will pay extra, then make a separate SKU which includes it, call it business/pro/enterprise and charge a premium. It's profit maximizing pure and simple. The super obvious check is that there are ISPs which compete on friendlyness and don't do this. They're not special, they just make less money.