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1 edit | Gimmicks, gimmicks and more gimmicks.... You know.....I wish the providers would stop coming up with all these gimmicks and just give us what we are paying for. A "powerboost" is useless. What we need is consistently increased upload speeds. They constantly pitch portals and speed boosters, when they should just be working on the long term stability and capacity of their network. If FIOS can provide a 20/20 connection then so can cable. It's all wrapped up in the politics and red tape. This is why other countries are so far ahead of us in broadband speeds and technology. They don't have politics controlling everything that happens like America. |
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1 edit | said by chrisbmoore:You know.....I wish the providers would stop coming up with all these gimmicks and just give us what we are paying for. A "powerboost" is useless to the average user. No, it works great for the average user. Who it doesn't help are those who are constantly downloading huge movie files or hundreds of MP3s thru some P2P applications.
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CorydonCultivant son jardinPremium
join:2008-02-18
Denver, CO | reply to chrisbmoore
What kind of "average user" are you talking about?
The average user whose downloads and uploads consist of things like photos and the odd patch for Windows?
Or the average user who downloads lots of "Linux Distros" on BitTorrent?
And what, precisely, does politics have to do with Speed Boost?
It's a tool. It helps with some things (like photos). Not so much with others (like videos). Complaining because it doesn't do task B well is like complaining that you can't use a screwdriver to cut a 2x4.
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·Comcast
| I'm not saying politics has anything to do with powerboost.....I'm saying the reason we are held back from real solutions to a problem instead of a short term fix is because the ceos are lining their pockets with the research and development money. |
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 espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
join:2001-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
kudos:2
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said by chrisbmoore:If FIOS can provide a 20/20 connection then so can cable. It's all wrapped up in the politics and red tape. Yeah, those politics of needing to save frequency space to deliver TV channels on your CableTV infrastructure are just unnecessary red tape. |
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| Well guys it's a forum for opinions....I'm offering mine.....just like an asshole everyone has one. Seems every time I offer an opinion anywhere here...I get attacked for it. |
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said by fAcEtIOUs:No, it works great for the average user. Who it doesn't help are those who are constantly downloading huge movie files or hundreds of MP3s legitimately. Tweaked it a bit for you...
»www.archive.org/details/movies
»www.archive.org/details/audio
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 DogfatherPremium
join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA | reply to chrisbmoore
Powerboost is hardly useless. It's good for EVERYTHING except large downloads. Not everyone is engaged in pirate seeding or hammering usenet 24/7.
And no, just because Verizon can doesn't mean cable can. Their network topologies are fundamentally different. |
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espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
join:2001-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
kudos:2 Reviews:
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1 edit | reply to chrisbmoore
I'm just saying, the technology divide between cable and FiOS is vast. Cable was designed around the delivery of video content, and the ability to layer on data services only came about later after the infrastructure was already deployed. FiOS was designed as a platform for data *and* video delivery; the ability to deliver high data rates was factored into the solution up front.
Simply restated: for cable, data delivery is a bonus. For FiOS, data delivery is at the core of the service. |
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DogfatherPremium
join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA | reply to chrisbmoore
What problem? What is this mythical problem everyone is speaking of? These cable providers are supplying multi-megabit speeds for a decent price and those speeds are increasing.
Comcast and other major cable operators are spending hundreds and hundreds of millions in upgrade improvements including switched digital video and DOCSIS 3 for channel bonding. Telcos are also spending hundreds of millions to billions on fresh deployments.
It's also a matter of demand. Looking at FiOS speed distribution records here, people are gobbling up the cheaper tiers although higher end tiers are available. Thus just because you build it, doesn't many anyone will come. |
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Lol. I like your "tweaked" post better.  |
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 fireflierCoffee. . .Need CoffeePremium
join:2001-05-25
Limbo | reply to fAcEtIOUs
Or LEGALLY, purchased games for PS3 (yes you really can purchase Gran Turismo 5 from the Playstation Store. The download is about 1.5GB), and Xbox, LEGALLY purchased MP3s from Amazon (from whom I've purchased many) and LEGAL DirecTV Video On Demand programs.
Constant implications that high bandwidth users are all doing something illegal only serves to help ISPs justify crappy speeds and stupidly low caps because "legal network use couldn't possibly consume that much bandwidth". Not all high bandwidth use is attributed to illegal activity. The fact that some activity is illegal does not invalidate the fact that a lot of activity isn't.
So back to the original argument, speed boost also won't help the above listed uses.
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