In an FCC filing, a coalition of broadband providers, called the Accurate Broadband Data Alliance, said 'LTD Broadband/GigFire LLC and others' are over-reporting their service availability and reach on the FCC's broadband map.
  • Nommer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Comcast for decades has claimed on their site that they cover my parent’s house but when you call to actually get service they never show up. To this day there’s still no lines installed on the poles for broadband.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 months ago

    ISPs, let me calibrate things for you:

    Basically everyone in the US would prefer to just pay the FCC or their local or state governments directly for good and cost effective broadband. We all hate you with a passion and wish you would die as companies.

    • GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Yep, I just got local county fiber installed because Comcast would go down twice a day, at least. On top of that, I was paying out the ass for shitty upload speed and to remove the 1.2TB data cap. The local ISPs are about $60/mo for 1 gig up and down, compared to Comcast’s $130/month for 1 “gig” down and 30 meg up.

      • vithigar@lemmy.caEnglish
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        9 months ago

        What’s really crazy about lopsided plans like that 1Gbps/30Mbps is that a lot of the time you straight up can’t use that 1 gig down because your pitiful upstream gets completely saturated just trying to keep up with the ACKs you need to send back to confirm receipt of packets. More then 30Mbps upstream is literally a requirement if you want to utilise 1Gbps of downstream over TCP.