90-year-old man spends $10k on 2 ads in WSJ to tell AT&T CEO about slow internet

Re:90-year-old man spends $10k on 2 ads in WSJ to tell AT&T ... by soapdog on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @04:07AM (#26087003)

I live in central London, about 5 minutes away from Google HQ. Here on I can only get 10Mbps ADSL2+ connections. I ended using a mobile broadband modem for the whole house, at least it gets me up to 20Mbps.

Now, before living here, I was living in Rio de Janeiro state in Brazil. I had 300Mbps fiber connection cheaper than the price I'm paying for shit connection in London.

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Re:90-year-old man spends $10k on 2 ads in WSJ to tell AT&T ... by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:57AM (#26087678)

I fell into that trap once - rented in a listed building with ADSL that will never be upgraded.

Now Hyperoptic (a Gigabit provider) is my second question for any letting agent or landlord, without it head straight for the door.

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Re:90-year-old man spends $10k on 2 ads in WSJ to tell AT&T ... by neverminder on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @09:41AM (#26089716)

Hyperoptic is lightyears ahead of anyone else, because they offer 1 Gbps synchronous broadband. Synchronous is the key here, because absolute majority of other providers usually only offer upload speed that is 10-20% of download speed.

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Re:90-year-old man spends $10k on 2 ads in WSJ to tell AT&T ... by sizzle on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:56PM (#26095974)

I have AT&T 1Gbps fiber both up and down on my street here in the US. I agree it is blazing fast.

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Re:90-year-old man spends $10k on 2 ads in WSJ to tell AT&T ... by room271 on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @04:42AM (#26087229)

Worth checking Virgin if you haven't already or yeah going for 5g (3 and some others offer this in parts of London).

I had thought most of London had access to really good options here but obviously I was wrong!

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Re:90-year-old man spends $10k on 2 ads in WSJ to tell AT&T ... by Mauricebranagh on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @04:12AM (#26087036)

You haven't got FTC then ?

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