RayW
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join:2001-09-01
Layton, UT
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| Read the contract and watch out for Carlini!
They have meters on every house to show the amount of electricity used. How come you don’t have a virtual Netometer on your screen showing how much bandwidth is being used? I bet some providers will love that notion!
Yes, they hype the multi-mega-bit-per-second-high-speed-unlimited-super-duper-connection, but the fine print says up to a certain speed (and in some cases do not abuse, with abuse not defined). Note the phrase "up to". In ideal conditions you can get "up to" which usually includes all the hidden handshaking overhead costs.
Just like that hamburger you see on the ad at the fast food store, you know you will never see one, yet it is not false advertising but creative advertising (yes, there was a court case on it once upon a time).
It would be nice if they could monitor the speeds and enforce the advertised big print and make the fine print illegal, but I think that professor needs to get out of the ivory tower and look at reality. Besides, what happens if the slowdown is away from the provider's control further up the net? Most people do not do speed tests to just the other side of the provider's control, they do it to another city.
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hoyleysox
join:2003-11-07
Long Beach, CA | True, also, if users are running p2p software or are hijacked by spyare, they will percieve speeds to be slow, but that is only because they are maxing out their bandwidth, but may not be aware of it. That is not the ISPs fault. |
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J D McDorce
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join:2001-12-29
Westland, MI
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said by RayW  :Just like that hamburger you see on the ad at the fast food store, you know you will never see one, yet it is not false advertising but creative advertising (yes, there was a court case on it once upon a time). If multiple tiers are added into the equation, there is the potential situation where one orders (and pays for) a Quarter Pounder with Cheese, only to receive a Cheeseburger. Should the consumer have recourse in this case? |
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carlini7
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join:2003-12-19
Dundee, IL
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Hey Ray
Come to the Courtroom - THAT'S reality. Unfortunately the title "professor" must have some negative connotation to some. Maybe it's jealousy from those who never finished a degree.
Well I am not a full-time professor, I am an adjunct (part-time). My time is spent consulting and working as an expert witness. Degrees and certificates don't mean anything unless you win the case. RCDD. MCSE. Masters in Comp Sci - who cares. Some have been found to be dead wrong in design as well as operations.
My focus is more in investigations and system performance reviews - in order words when all the "experts" have done their job and failed, I come in and point out what they did wrong. How many wrongful death and multi-million dollar cases have you been on? And out of those - how many have you won? |
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