Journal DragonTHC's Journal: Why can't I find fast cheap broadband? 3
I've been living in South West Miami for 3 years now. I've had Comcast cable the whole time. I'm now looking to ditch comcast and go with another provider. I have fibre services to the curb from both AT&T and Comcast. My home phone is over fibre, my cable tv is over fibre. Why can't I find an ISP offering speeds faster than my cable service for a comparable price? My cable service gets 12/2Mbit bandwidth. It's burstable to 100Mbits. However, it's Comcast. I was looking at fibre services and one company wants to charge $1200 a month for a 10Mbit line. I might wait until AT&T starts offering 50/50Mbit lines. That could be a while though.
Why, with fibre to the curb, can't I find fast cheap broadband?
We ALL feel your pain here (Score:2)
Because then they don't make money at the cablecos and the telcos.
Seriously, give the people a product that they are clamoring for, and you can give them rubbish about how you can't do it now, but you can offer part of the service, and they want it bad. They need it.
So, they dole out pitiful bits and pieces, which we lap up like hungry teat-fiends. So I would say that our options are to either
a) deal with the current structure and live your life peacefully,
b) move to Japan or somewhere where the tech comp
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Occam's Razor was just sharpened. Remember that my cable is over fibre to the curb, or wherever they put the amp in my neighborhood.
given that my cable connection can burst to 100Mbits whenever I visit speedtest.net, I'm calling shennanigans.
I don't get those speeds on every test location, but miami and dallas give me 100Mbit+ though the average test speed for other sites is 40Mbits.
Yet when I download stuff, I get 3-4Mbits. Comcast's powerboost crap doesn't kick in unless you're downloading from their s
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I agree with you, and thought I made my point there. The point to my Occams analogy was that the simplest answer is that they are not making enough money as it is, so they must charge us for limited capacity, and dole out enough at a time to make us happy. That's the simplest explanation given that Japan has such high speed everywhere (if you listen to the Japanese, they'll confirm it in the big cities).
So therefore, Comcast is f*ing their customers. Plain and simple.
But they can call it technological ob