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Re: ‘ Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users ‘ - freeradical - 06-09-2020
8-12 TB per month?
:facepalm:
Re: ‘ Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users ‘ - sekker - 06-09-2020
Our internet at home this past week has been TERRIBLE, once the official 'stay at home' ruling has passed.
Coincidence? I do not think so. There is a local fiber company doing their best to give us options, I feel like the cable company has decided to end support for locals to milk all they can since they know they are about to lose half or more of the market.
Re: ‘ Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users ‘ - GGD - 06-09-2020
PeterB wrote:
For the next 7-8 years or so, they continuously spammed me with their stupid flyers for their crappy service. It took my writing a nasty paper letter, registered USPS, to their corporate headquarters, in order for them to permanently remove me and my address from their mailing list.
You could have tried filing a USPS Form 1500, you just needed to admit that you find mail from "COX" to be "arousing".
if you are the addressee of an advertisement, and consider the matter (product or service) that it offers for sale to be "erotically arousing or sexually provocative,"
https://about.usps.com/forms/ps1500.pdf
extended by case law to allow the recipient to declare any mailpiece obscene, for any reason whatsoever, with no requirement to state the reason(s) for taking offense
The only absolute requirement is that it must be possible to construe the mailpiece as an offer to sell goods or services. Various rulings have upheld the Supreme Court decision that the postal customer's discretion is not subject to review.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibitory_Order
Re: ‘ Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users ‘ - Ombligo - 06-09-2020
Here is hoping Starlink lives up to its promise.
Re: ‘ Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users ‘ - stephen - 06-09-2020
I've seen AT&T laying fiber for months in the alley behind my Birmingham loft.
But when I respond to their online ads: "AT&T Fiber is not available in your area."
What the heck have y'all been doing back there?
Re: ‘ Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users ‘ - Will Collier - 06-09-2020
stephen wrote:
I've seen AT&T laying fiber for months in the alley behind my Birmingham loft.
But when I respond to their online ads: "AT&T Fiber is not available in your area."
What the heck have y'all been doing back there?
Same thing happened here. They put fiber down in my neighborhood six months (at least) before they started taking orders for it.
Re: ‘ Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users ‘ - Bill in NC - 06-09-2020
stephen wrote:
I've seen AT&T laying fiber for months in the alley behind my Birmingham loft.
But when I respond to their online ads: "AT&T Fiber is not available in your area."
What the heck have y'all been doing back there?
AT&T ran conduit then pulled fiber on the main road outside my development nearly two years ago.
But they've been slow pulling it into neighborhoods...
Re: ‘ Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users ‘ - rz - 06-09-2020
AT&T gigabit fiber has been in an apartment complex that's literally two hundred yards from my house for a few years now. There's even an AT&T store in the shopping center next to it... again, literally two hundred yards from my house. They have signs up at the store saying "Gigabit fiber is available NOW!". But not in our neighborhood. Or in any of the other neighborhoods surrounding the store. I've checked. The only availability within several miles of the store is the one upscale apartment building next to the shopping center. I'm guessing the put the fiber in when it was built about 5 years ago.
I'm with Spectrum/Charter now, and get 100Mbps download with no data caps. If/when they ever institute data caps, I'll probably start looking around more. I've probably downloaded 1TB or more in the past couple of weeks (I found a great website that has thousands of bootleg concert videos on it).
Re: ‘ Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users ‘ - cbelt3 - 06-09-2020
Until Time Warner / Spectrum upgraded our neighborhood , I was seriously looking into getting a legal link to the fiber running down the main street and setting up a neighborhood mesh network to pay for it all.
We're luck that Spectrum doesn't cap usage. We run about 4TB/ month so far.
Re: ‘ Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users ‘ - mattkime - 06-09-2020
>AT&T gigabit fiber has been in an apartment complex that's literally two hundred yards from my house for a few years now. There's even an AT&T store in the shopping center next to it... again, literally two hundred yards from my house.
Lived this. Sometimes they get exclusive contracts for buildings.