THE ERA OF TRUMP

[Speaker to Animals]

Dude. For fuck sake. I can no longer stream video. How is that a better outcome?

Internet speeds up are 30% overall.

The overall product is improved by getting the central planning morons out of the way.

The fact that someone, somewhere might have to pay their fair share for high bandwidth entertainment streaming doesn't bother me at all.

Internet is ZERO PERCENT if I want to stream video without paying even more money.

HOW THE FUCK IS THAT BETTER FOR MY COMMUNITY??

[nmoore63]

Internet is ZERO PERCENT if I want to stream video without paying even more money.

HOW THE FUCK IS THAT BETTER FOR MY COMMUNITY??

Internet speeds up are 30% overall.

The overall product is improved by getting the central planning morons out of the way.

The fact that someone, somewhere might have to pay their fair share for high bandwidth entertainment streaming doesn't bother me at all.

[Speaker to Animals]

Internet is ZERO PERCENT if I want to stream video without paying even more money.

HOW THE FUCK IS THAT BETTER FOR MY COMMUNITY??

Internet speeds up are 30% overall.

The overall product is improved by getting the central planning morons out of the way.

The fact that someone, somewhere might have to pay their fair share for high bandwidth entertainment streaming doesn't bother me at all.

Please explain to me how it is better for my community now that we have to pay twice as much just to watch the fucking television, Nick.

[Fife]

C'mon Nick; 100mbs Internet 24/7/365 is a fundamental human right. This is because all of human technological history started in 2016; and also ended right there. Nothing is ever gonna get better, capitalists only make things worse over time.

Just look what the filthy merchants did to the Blockbuster Customers Community.

[Speaker to Animals]

Please explain how this was a better outcome for my community.

Or, really, any community where there exists only one broadband provider who is also the cable company.

[nmoore63]

Please explain to me how it is better for my community now that we have to pay twice as much just to watch the fucking television, Nick.

1) My community is better off. That is step one. I would think a nationalist like yourself would understand that position.

2) I suspect that it is you with an issue rather than your community. You tend to project like that.

3) If there is an issue, the root cause is your local government being corrupt and creating a monopoly within your area. And the solution to fix the more localized corruption, not make the rest of the county suffer because of your own ills.

[Speaker to Animals]

Please explain to me how it is better for my community now that we have to pay twice as much just to watch the fucking television, Nick.

1) My community is better off. That is step one. I would think a nationalist like yourself would understand that position.

2) I suspect that it is you with an issue rather than your community. You tend to project like that.

3) If there is an issue, the root cause is your local government being corrupt and creating a monopoly within your area. And the solution to fix the more localized corruption, not make the rest of the county suffer because of your own ills.

1) I did not ask about your community.

2) It is the entire market.

3) The root cause is that merchant cunts made it legal for broadband companies to discriminate packet data, and the only broadband provider here also competes against the video streaming services. It is profitable for them to make streaming impossible so people either pay a hundred dollars to get it unthrottled or pay for the cable company's television service.


Please explain how in the fuck that is a good outcome. Thanks.

[SuburbanFarmer]

What speed did you sign up for at $50/month? Is this satellite, coax, dsl, or what?

What exactly are they charging for “video service”?


You’re right (if true), this is good ol crony capitalism at its best. I’ve never heard of charging extra for packet types. My local cable co tried to charge me $5/mo to turn on the wi-fi radio in their gigantic modem. I just plugged my router in and laughed.

[nmoore63]

3) The root cause is that merchant cunts made it legal for broadband companies to discriminate packet data, and the only broadband provider here also competes against the video streaming services. It is profitable for them to make streaming impossible so people either pay a hundred dollars to get it unthrottled or pay for the cable company's television service.

The only reason such would be possible is if you live in a monopoly ISP environment.
The only way you live in a monopoly ISP environment is if your government corruptly props it up.
I am not interesting in trying to solve the infinite problem symptoms that results because you live in a government created for-profit monopoly.

IF things are as you say. Then fix it. Don't ask me to make my internet suck because yours does. Boo Hoo. Carry your water.

[Speaker to Animals]

What speed did you sign up for at $50/month? Is this satellite, coax, dsl, or what?

What exactly are they charging for “video service”?


You’re right (if true), this is good ol crony capitalism at its best. I’ve never heard of charging extra for packet types. My local cable co tried to charge me $5/mo to turn on the wi-fi radio in their gigantic modem. I just plugged my router in and laughed.

10 Mbps

This is rural broadband. Basic tier. Television worked fine until about two months ago. I contacted them about it, and they were dodgy about what happened. They keep trying to tell me my problem is I need to upgrade to watch television. But I didn't have a problem until a few months ago. Nor did any of my neighbors, and they all have the same problem if they didn't upgrade.

If I attempt to stream video, my entire Internet connection drops to about 1 Mpbs.

I went through their TOS that had changed after the neocons decided to trash net neutrality like the cunts they are. It says this company is committed to a neutral service, so I was puzzled about why this would happen, then. But then I found the weasel wording (same thing that Comcast was doing in the Chicago market right before the government stamped this practice out the last time): they reserve the right to throttle traffic essentially for what they call load balancing. So they just argue the video traffic is a huge load on their network and they are simply throttling packet data they claim is a burden on the system -- and that just so happens to profit them by making their competition less viable.

My suspicion is that this will the SOP across the entire United States. They will publicly claim they don't discriminate against any particular kind of Internet traffic, but they will throttle everything if they deem the usage to be a burden. So if you are downloading streaming video, then they say this is happening at some "peak time" and they throttle it. Weird how it doesn't seem to affect downloading games from Steam, just when I want to watch a movie via Amazon. I am sure their digital video tier service is unaffected as well.