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Comment Re:Easy Solution (Score 1) 222

Right - and once you become a monopoly, you behave like one without tight regulation - which we're lacking. That's why it's time for municipalities to start offering Internet along with water, sometimes electricity, contracted group trash pickup, etc. The Internet still needs a backbone and lots of secondary networks, but I think last mile is no longer a viable consumer product thanks to the telcos screwing that up.

Comment Re:Satellite (Score 1) 222

Pretty sure just increasing a timeout or two at most

Depends on the company. If they're large enough that this requires changing at the server level - not every employer is just going to change server settings for one employee.

And what about VoIP? The guy works from home. Just Googling over a Satellite link is too high of a latency to maintain your sanity.

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