Net neutrality update

[xoxoxoBruce]

Got an email tonight.

It’s Fios® Customer Appreciation Month. And to thank you for your loyalty, your internet has been upgraded to ultrafast Fios 100/100M—at no additional cost. With this upgrade, you can now stream and upload faster than before, and connect more devices at the same time.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Got an email tonight.
"It’s Fios® Customer Appreciation Month. And to thank you for your loyalty, your internet has been upgraded to ultrafast Fios 100/100M—at no additional cost. With this upgrade, you can now stream and upload faster than before, and connect more devices at the same time.

When my monthly report came from Sam Knows the performance seemed to be as promised.



It looks like they track and chart the performance of major video purveyors buy since I don't use them there's no data.



Yesterday I got another email.


I don't know if it was a, we upgraded you during the hectic holiday season so we're sending this in case you didn't notice.
Or it could be a, we upgraded your speed so get out there and use it for all these addicting pursuits that will make you even more dependant on us.

[Griff]

Luxury. We still carry data in buckets from the well.

[glatt]

We paid for the FIOS upgrade when we renewed our contract. I didn't notice a difference when i ran speed tests from my laptop and phone over wifi.

So I was about to bitch to Verizon, and got on the PC upstairs that is wired to the network, and it had the new higher speed.

So I realized my wifi connection was fooked. I switched to the other channel and got almost the advertised speed on my phone and laptop.

It's one of those chores that I'm not motivated to do, tinker with the wifi to get the speed we are paying for. What we have is fast enough.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yeah, when my two years was up on my last contract they jumped it $10. I figured it was a prod to get me to sign up for another 24 months in exchange for dropping the increase. I went round and round with several of them for three weeks about the $35 in miscellaneous taxes and fees, especially the "local sports" fee of now $8.50 a month. What local sports, where the fuck is this money going? Why am I paying your gross receipts tax for you.

So I finally dropped a bunch of stuff and dropped the bill by $55 a month. That's why the speed increase surprised me. I would guess they found out they had the capability and it makes good ad copy for attracting people getting into streaming services.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by Griff

Luxury. We still carry data in buckets from the well.

Mine comes in on a truck.

Packed in straw.

[tw]

Originally Posted by Griff

We still carry data in buckets from the well.

Is that The Don's wall? Do you mean 5 billion bitcoins in buckets?

Never mind. The Don now says we will be discussing this for months or years.