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 elcomet on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @04:44AM (#26087248)

I'm living in France in a medium-sized city, and I pay 20€/month ($25) for 1GBps internet (that's actually a 1 year discount, it's gonna be 30€/month).

Also my 4G mobile plan is 60Gb/month for 10€.

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Re:90-year-old man spends $10k on 2 ads in WSJ to tell AT&T ... by user5994461 on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:07AM (#26087384)

Broadband and fibers are about 35€ a month in France with the two providers. They do a single package with phone, internet and TV over internet.

It's misleading to call it 20€/month because of one-off discounts.

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Re:90-year-old man spends $10k on 2 ads in WSJ to tell AT&T ... by malobre on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @07:55AM (#26088465)

I'm living in france too, I pay 40€/mo (~$48) for ~8Gbps fiber.

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Re:90-year-old man spends $10k on 2 ads in WSJ to tell AT&T ... by dwild on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @02:13PM (#26093413)

You seriously get 8 Gbps on anything else than torrents? I get 400 Mbps in Canada and there so many time where I download and I hardly get more than 100 Mbps... Steam and torrents are pretty much the only times I get my full 400 Mbps.

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Re:90-year-old man spends $10k on 2 ads in WSJ to tell AT&T ... by malobre on Thursday February 11, 2021 @07:47PM (#26109551)

I max out at around 1 Gbps on steam, although I think I might be bottlenecked by my cpu for decompression. Servers that allows clients to pull 8Gbps are very rare.

Torrenting linux iso is indeed very fast :)

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Re:90-year-old man spends $10k on 2 ads in WSJ to tell AT&T ... by thesmok on Thursday February 11, 2021 @07:57AM (#26100978)

That would mean the servers don't give you more than 100, but your provider does honestly provide you a 400 Mbps channel.

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Re:90-year-old man spends $10k on 2 ads in WSJ to tell AT&T ... by NoirDesir on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @07:19AM (#26088222)

I guess it's a FTTLA 1GBps internet.

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Re:90-year-old man spends $10k on 2 ads in WSJ to tell AT&T ... by elcomet on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @08:05AM (#26088547)

It's FFTH

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Re:90-year-old man spends $10k on 2 ads in WSJ to tell AT&T ... by malobre on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @08:02AM (#26088521)

GBps != Gbps

Bytes != bits

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Re:90-year-old man spends $10k on 2 ads in WSJ to tell AT&T ... by elcomet on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @08:05AM (#26088551)

Yeah sorry, I meant Gbps

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