sd70mac’s Comments

• Apr 2nd, 2021 @ 12:45am

  Re: AT&T is bad

  on AT&T Fights Against New Broadband Definitions, Insists 10 Mbps Upstream Is Good Enough

  Here, this may give you a laugh: https://youtu.be/eKfK0uvBmCQ

• Apr 2nd, 2021 @ 12:40am

  Re: throughput

  on AT&T Fights Against New Broadband Definitions, Insists 10 Mbps Upstream Is Good Enough

  Ironically, 300 Mbps down, 20 Mbps up is not a package that AT&T offers home users; anything over 100 Mbps is symmetrical for home or small businesses, and 100 Mbps service is symmetrical when delivered over fiber instead of VDSL (it is 20 Mbps up on VDSL). 300/20 is a common cable Internet tier, however.

• Nov 3rd, 2020 @ 12:36pm

  Re: Re: Monopolies

  on Time to Treat Broadband Like the Essential Service It Is

  While it is true that a monopoly owned by a city and controlled by people that can be voted out is a slight improvement over one owned by a faraway corporation, I know that I’d prefer open access where multiple companies compete for my business for Internet, as they do with electricity here in Illinois and in Texas. I'm also involved in a project to create a Co-operative that runs an Open-Access network in my area, although we are still just gathering support at the moment.

• Sep 25th, 2020 @ 8:41am

  Re: Connectivity Expansion

  on FCC Keeps Using Bogus Data To Claim It's Closing The 'Digital Divide'

  There definitely have been connectivity expansions since March, but major expansions tend to be by local organizations or new players, such as SiFi Networks ( https://muninetworks.org/content/sifi-networks-first-fibercity-goes-live-fullerton-ca ) or https://Althea.net.

• Sep 15th, 2020 @ 8:29am

  Irregulators

  on Over At Politico, The AT&T Monopoly Gives Tips On Fixing A Broadband Problem It Spent Thirty Years Creating

  The people running the http://irregulators.org/ website have attempted to keep track.

• May 17th, 2020 @ 6:22am

  Re: So, what people should do

  on Ohio Government Asks Companies To Snitch On Employees, Gets Hit With Auto-Generated Bogus 'Tips' Instead

  My religion actually does, so I'd say it's worth a shot.

• May 13th, 2020 @ 1:19pm

  Re: 'The uh... network is back to being terrible you see.'

  on ISPs Finally Lifted Data Caps. It Only Took A Global Pandemic

  While at least some ISPs did or do offer some kind of discount or rollover data on capped plans, it is definitely the exception and not the rule so far. As usual, the remedy to high prices is more competition.

• Feb 1st, 2020 @ 10:21pm

  Re: Re: Waiting for disruption

  on AT&T, Comcast Dramatically Cut Network Spending Despite Net Neutrality Repeal

  I am cautiously optimistic about StarLink and similar projects. Meanwhile I do what I can to encourage the growth of co-operative networks, including projects like Althea incentivized mesh networks, which have the added bonus of extra reliability though multiple paths to a node.