Re:AT&T’s GigaPower plans turn privacy into a luxury that fe...
by trebor on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @10:20AM
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I live in a "rural" place on one of the nation's fiber backbones, one of the top in the country due to nearby military/government facilities, and we don't even get the full 7Mbps bandwidth we pay for. And that's still $30-40/mo.
And all that is because Verizon won't upgrade their equipment to handle the congestion that happens at night. It's not that they can't, but that we're "rural".
Re:AT&T’s GigaPower plans turn privacy into a luxury that fe...
by Sxw1212 on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @05:27PM
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I live on a farm in Texas. We pay $100/mo for 5mbps internet and rarely get one. (Our landline is bundled with it) Our whole internet has gone down for days multiple times.
And all that is because Verizon won't upgrade their equipment to handle the congestion that happens at night. It's not that they can't, but that we're "rural".