Re: + + + =

On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 22:33:24 -0500, mixed nuts wrote:

> 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.

Good point.  They might want to know about it anyway.

>  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.

U.S. broadband really does suck, especially rural broadband.

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-v