Reviews:
 ·MSN
·Brand X Internet
·DSL EXTREME
4 edits | So far the FCC has spent almost 10 years TRASHING broadband! Under the Bush/Powell/Martin FCC, broadband was trashed in this country! First they gutted the 1996 Communcations Act, then they 'de regulated' DSL-elminating ALL the required 'last mile' wholesale line sharing in the 1996 act. They they declared cable Internet an 'Information service'-virtually ELIMINATING competition over cable lines. Yet, DSL, wireless, dial up, etc. remains a 'communications service'!
INTERNET IS INTERNET-how can how it arrives to the home make it two completely different services?
Right now, in Hollywood, CA-one of the most populated cities in the USA, there are basically TWO ways to get Internet-the cable company or the phone company. Neither offers reasonably priced static IP service. TW uses Sandvine to throttle torrents-and Speedboost to make you THINK you're getting decent speeds when you're not. My friend just called-he told me that he was downloading a 2 gb torrent (a legit radio show) and he watched the speed of the torrent abruptly drop from 700 kbps to 14 kpbs on his TW connection (so don't tell me you aren't throttling, TW!). It's still slow an hour later...
With DSL you have a couple of independent choices-but who determines the speeds they can sell you? The telephone company! They control the provisioning.
So, FCC, if you want to help us, then you have to get us to TRUST YOU! So far I haven't seen you lift a finger to make anything better (not even a token amount)-and we're NOT going to take you on faith. Indeed, If I had my way, I'd disband you and start over with an organization run by engineers, not lawyers! |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
 ·Comcast
| On te DSL side, you can theoretically colocate your own equipment etc. and push our your own CLEC DSL service. It's just rather expensive.
Case in point: Sonic.net offers up to 18 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up DSL on their home turf.
However you're right; a DSL ISP can pick from a predetermined mix of speed tiers to sell to their customers if their equipment isn't n the CO. Which, for most providers (DSLExtreme, name-your-DSL-ISP-here, anyone running on Qwest's DSL ISP program), is the case. |
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 mrkevinKnowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.Premium
join:2007-08-07
Aurora, ME | you can theoretically colocate your own equipment etc. and push our your own CLEC DSL service. It's just rather expensive. Yup, that's true.
So anyone out there who is unhappy with their service can start their own.
You could run your own FTTH network right out of your basement. It doesn't take up much room, and start selling it to your neighbors and branch out from there.
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An army of sheep led by a lion, will always defeat an army of lions led by a sheep. |
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Reviews:
·MSN
·Brand X Internet
·DSL EXTREME
1 edit | What many of you don't realize is that the telcos readily agreed to allow wholesale rental of the last mile of their circuits to competitors. The reason was because in return they got to enter the long distance business.
AT&T and Verizon would not exist otherwise!!
Do I have to repeat what I just stated?
BUT when it came time for the telcos to keep THEIR part of the bargain, instead they lobbied (read: BRIBED) the (then Republican controlled ) FCC to 'de regulate' DSL-and in the process wipe this half of the agreement off the face of the earth!
In simpler terms, the telcos DEALT IN BAD FAITH and got away with it!
Perhaps its time for the FCC to undo this travesty and then watch DSL prices drop and speeds increase as a result!
Or maybe they should again disallow them from the LD business-so AT&T and Verizon can go back to the way they were... |
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mrkevinKnowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.Premium
join:2007-08-07
Aurora, ME | Perhaps its time for the FCC to undo this travesty and then watch DSL prices drop and speeds increase as a result! It always works when government gets involved... Prices would most undoubtedly increase as the Fed saw another opportunity to separate you from your $$$
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
·AT&T DSL Service
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said by iansltx:On te DSL side, you can theoretically colocate your own equipment etc. and push our your own CLEC DSL service. It's just rather expensive. And just how many people are in range of the copper coming out of the CO? All those people behind fiber RT's are off limits.
This access has become a joke.
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"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | True dat. |
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