SuburbanFarmer wrote: ↑Sat Jan 12, 2019 11:55 am
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.