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 FiLPremium
join:2005-08-16
Silver Spring, MD | well No matter how anyone of you corporate apologists wanna spin it, it is still false advertising...I see it being no different then "socially engineered" viruses, spy/malware and the such. Everything the "provider"(ISP or haxzor) advertises points to YOU getting X amount of speed, GUARANTEED (why teh-hell-else would you pick the provider). Now, the guarantee part comes into play when, say, Comcast bends over backwards with their multi-million dollar advert. campaign explaining how their broadband connections are 100x faster then their competitors, your ALWAYS online(an inference the customer would most likely believe is tied to "their speed" also!), just click here and your on your way to happy land. Blazin' speeds, always online, Everyone's using it! Its just better technology!
That's when the gay-pr0n sites start poppin up, then your connection goes down. (the former case for the haxzor comparison, hehe).
Allday long your blasted with these advertisements. The companies know when enough "facts" are thrown at the customer, they'll want to sign up because they feel their in "good hands" when all they did was fall for the trap. Comcast already got sued for lying about being like 45365645 times faster then Verizon DSL, but here in Silver Spring, MD, you'd be hard pressed to say that, especially at night when your connection is gahhhbage!. Crazy. Comcast adverts suck ass anyway. The speed checks should be set in place, but the ISP's are gonna get their pantys wet and cry all the way to the Viacom's, Universals, and Disney's of the world. And ain't nothin' like awakening the beast from its slumber! (but really, does it ever sleep?) | |
| there is not a single ISP that says in there commercial guaranteed speed of lets say 5Mbps. more over there is no guarante with residential circuits or business class circuits that are provided by residential ISPs. The reality of this is, comcast, verizion, time warner, ool, NEVER say there speeds are XX ALL THE TIME GUARANTEED. Sure they say 100x faster than dialup, but that 100x faster could be say measured on a 24kbps connection or 33.6kbps connection. Saying you are 3x faster than DSL could be correct also, verizion has a basic package here like 784/128, so that would be only a 3mb connection to be 3x faster than DSL. The average customer doesn't know what 5 Mbps is or 784Kbps is, they just see X times faster and think wow thats good. Lets not forget on all commericals it clearly states that "UPTO X Kb or MBps" it even says in the little itty bitty tiny white letters just before the commerical goes off, "speeds are in comparison with lowest package offered of [insert another company here], and speeds offered by [insert advertising company here] are not guaranteed in any way by [insert advertising company]"
If you really think you will get 3Mb all the time and think you have the right to a refund you need a wake up call. The fact of the matter is this, YOU and EVERYONE else that has Broadband has agreed to get "UPTO" speeds weither you know it or not, you have service and you agreed to there TOS or AUP (terms of service, or acceptable use policy), and if you DONT READ IT FIRST that is YOUR FAULT not the ISPs because the customer is ignorant and doesn't want to read before entering into a service agreement with a company. No amount of speed testing will increase your speeds, reading what you sign will inform you before you purchase as to what you are doing is smart or just plain dumb. | |
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