Net Neutrality

[Zlaxer]

There would be, in the middle of a fucking major city, you dipwad. We're talking about a slightly larger area tho.

Yeah, except that places like the next town over to where I live also have RCN, Verizon and Comcast... so what's your logic on that one?

You're in the middle of fucking New England. Jesus H, do I even have to explain this to you? LOL

EDIT: I have no idea what RCN is, but I'm guessing cable company. So, when you sign up for them, do they re-run a coax line to your house? Are there duplicate coax cables on every power pole? Seriously, look around.
Verizon doesn't do coax, so I have no idea what you're on about there.

Here in The Rest of America, you have one of the local cable companies, or fuck-off. One may take this side of town, and the other takes the other side. But you will never EVER have a choice between them.

We have a choice between 3 ISPs....verizon (Shitty DSL), Comcast, and Frontier....and yeah, I think Comcast and Frontier do run parallel networks....Coaxial / fiber is not like gas, water, and/or high voltage power......it's easy to have a bundle of 200 lines run down a large conduit...thus, its easy to have 200 competing ISPs in the same region....

[The Conservative]

There would be, in the middle of a fucking major city, you dipwad. We're talking about a slightly larger area tho.

Yeah, except that places like the next town over to where I live also have RCN, Verizon and Comcast... so what's your logic on that one?

You're in the middle of fucking New England. Jesus H, do I even have to explain this to you? LOL

EDIT: I have no idea what RCN is, but I'm guessing cable company. So, when you sign up for them, do they re-run a coax line to your house? Are there duplicate coax cables on every power pole? Seriously, look around.
Verizon doesn't do coax, so I have no idea what you're on about there.

Here in The Rest of America, you have one of the local cable companies, or fuck-off. One may take this side of town, and the other takes the other side. But you will never EVER have a choice between them.

This is because people might realize that they’re paying the equivalent of another power bill, for some low-voltage connection to internet exchanges, and nothing more.

Actually, RCN does run a line from the telephone pole to the house because it's fiber, and not coax.

So since I live in Mass, and you live in Butthurt,USA, how does net neutrality truly affect me compared to how it's going to affect you?

[Fife]

We have a choice between 3 ISPs....verizon (Shitty DSL), Comcast, and Frontier....and yeah, I think Comcast and Frontier do run parallel networks....Coaxial / fiber is not like gas, water, and/or high voltage power......it's easy to have a bundle of 200 lines run down a large conduit...thus, its easy to have 200 competing ISPs in the same region....

Watch your ass, citizen -- you are spreading rank Heresy against the Dept of the Internet!

[The Conservative]

Yeah, except that places like the next town over to where I live also have RCN, Verizon and Comcast... so what's your logic on that one?

You're in the middle of fucking New England. Jesus H, do I even have to explain this to you? LOL

EDIT: I have no idea what RCN is, but I'm guessing cable company. So, when you sign up for them, do they re-run a coax line to your house? Are there duplicate coax cables on every power pole? Seriously, look around.
Verizon doesn't do coax, so I have no idea what you're on about there.

Here in The Rest of America, you have one of the local cable companies, or fuck-off. One may take this side of town, and the other takes the other side. But you will never EVER have a choice between them.

We have a choice between 3 ISPs....verizon (Shitty DSL), Comcast, and Frontier....and yeah, I think Comcast and Frontier do run parallel networks....Coaxial / fiber is not like gas, water, and/or high voltage power......it's easy to have a bundle of 200 lines run down a large conduit...thus, its easy to have 200 competing ISPs in the same region....

That's sort of the point I was getting at...

[Fife]

https://www.reviews.org/internet-servic ... providers/

[SuburbanFarmer]

Yeah, except that places like the next town over to where I live also have RCN, Verizon and Comcast... so what's your logic on that one?

You're in the middle of fucking New England. Jesus H, do I even have to explain this to you? LOL

EDIT: I have no idea what RCN is, but I'm guessing cable company. So, when you sign up for them, do they re-run a coax line to your house? Are there duplicate coax cables on every power pole? Seriously, look around.
Verizon doesn't do coax, so I have no idea what you're on about there.

Here in The Rest of America, you have one of the local cable companies, or fuck-off. One may take this side of town, and the other takes the other side. But you will never EVER have a choice between them.

We have a choice between 3 ISPs....verizon (Shitty DSL), Comcast, and Frontier....and yeah, I think Comcast and Frontier do run parallel networks....Coaxial / fiber is not like gas, water, and/or high voltage power......it's easy to have a bundle of 200 lines run down a large conduit...thus, its easy to have 200 competing ISPs in the same region....

Ok.
1 - DSL is a different network, using the PTSN, and is long-obsolete anyway. Not part of the “competition”.

2 - you will never, and I mean never, see the owner of a trunk line sharing their conduit with another network. Let alone digging it up, and installing more lines, to hurt their own monopoly.

3 - yeah, Frontier is a conglomerate buying up old landlines from Verizon and ATT. They aren’t laying a new network. Reading the historical section here is actually a little scary. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_Communications

[SuburbanFarmer]

https://www.reviews.org/internet-servic ... providers/

15mbps is the same as DSL - outdated and useless. Also only works in nice weather.

[Speaker to Animals]

Jesus Christ. They are calling DSL a competitor to broadband.

Democracy might have been a mistake, guys..

[Speaker to Animals]

Question: what forces the cable company to dig up their lines and add a competitor's line to it that doesn't involve evil regulations?

[pineapplemike]

Are hard lines necessary to provide internet access?