Re: + + + =

On 11/22/2021 20:02, vallor wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 13:57:54 -0500, mixed nuts wrote:
> 
>> On 11/22/2021 12:48, vallor wrote:
>>> On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 10:27:45 -0700, % wrote:
>>>> On 2021-11-18 8:19 a.m., vallor wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 15 Nov 2021 19:10:06 -0700, % wrote:
>>>>>> On 2021-11-15 4:52 p.m., vallor wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 08:43:38 -0700, % wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 2021-11-14 4:16 a.m., vallor wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Mon, 1 Nov 2021 18:45:08 -0700, % wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 2021-11-01 6:41 p.m., vallor wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On Sun, 31 Oct 2021 18:56:43 -0700, % wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> ATH0 s8&^*(&%&^*^ NO CARRIER
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> i was right
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You mean, you had occasion to us the AT command set?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Or...?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> i never us
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> good catch
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> i meant:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "you had occasion to USE the AT command set?"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Because that's from the dialup days(!).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> oh no , not my 14.4
>>>>>
>>>>> Let's get you upgraded to 33.6 -- you just need a Sportster with the
>>>>> right firmware...
>>>>>
>>>>> Or better yet:
>>>>>
>>>>>       https://imgur.com/ebDwGXq
>>>>>
>>>> a guy told me i can go really fast if i use the cable on my tv
>>>
>>> Pretty fast for a pretty penny.
>>>
>>> But fiber to the home now...that's the true "future of awesome".
>>>
>>> ☈
>>
>> We can't get fiber here.  It's illegal.  We're only allowed to have
>> Comcast cable tv bundles unless you're a business and you get Comcast
>> Business.  It's in the contract that the town signed when all the
>> selectmen were Trump supporters and didn't want Marxist-Socialist ideas
>> to spread.  If you want those, you have to move to the next town.
> 
> Does your state have a public utilities commission to report
> the monopoly market to?  Also FCC. 

Internet is not common carrier/public utility.  Also, gaming is the big 
thing.  Can't slow the games down or the in-app purchases.  The state 
Attorney General is working on it but it could be years.

> They can't do that, the doctrine is "multi-mode competition", which
> _was_ the test for healthy markets -- and unless things have changed,
> that's what exists today.
> 
> I'm not a fan of "multi-mode competition."  It was stupid, and
> responsible for the kinds of duopoly and monopoly markets
> that exist, but that's what the FCC adopted -- so a market's
> competition is "healthy" if you have (say) a satellite
> ISP, an incumbent telco, and incumbent cable company, and maybe even
> power line Internet, which was considered.
> 
> Sorry for the brain dump, thank you for your patience with anything
> ungrammatical.

I can get DSL but I'm 5 miles from the phone building - really slow.  I 
can get a WiFi modem at a Comcast store - up to 200 Mb/s (occasionally - 
around 5am) with a data cap and if you need more data, y'all can order 
it with your credit card.  Or I can get a cable connection just like 
before but 2 hour dropouts when the neighborhood kids get home from 
school and get priority for gaming ain't gonna cut it.

So, I tether to a phone (1 Mb/s) or drive in to work where there's a 
gigabit fiber connection.

-- 
Grizzly H.