Re:Everything that is wrong with American capitalism, in one...
by bane on Monday April 28, 2014 @04:27PM
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There's plenty of alternatives for internet everywhere in the country. Saying "but they only have 1 broadband provider" isn't the same as having only one internet provider. The home I grew up in still doesn't have any broadband cable provider and can't get DSL. Yet somehow my non-tech savvy parents figured out how to navigate finding, competing and buying a high-speed internet provider after years of dial-up. They've had "always on" 24/7 internet in their house since about 1997-98 if I'm not mistaken.
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Re:Everything that is wrong with American capitalism, in one...
by PhasmaFelis on Monday April 28, 2014 @06:46PM
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What service do they use, exactly? I think most of us would be interested to hear about a high-bandwidth, low-latency option that isn't cable or DSL. The only things I can think of are satellite and cellular, both of which have huge hosts of problems for regular home use.
Re:Everything that is wrong with American capitalism, in one...
by bane on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @03:38PM
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Oh your want high bandwidth and low latency? Just like Tesla doesn't have a dealership in my neighborhood, providers aren't available in their area that offers both of those things either.
They use to use pairbonded dial-up, then ISDN. Been on Satellite (high-band down, dial-up up then bi-directional) for the last 10 years or so. They've been thinking of switching to a 4g hotspot recently, which is similar bandwidth and half the latency (and similar cost for their uses).