[Bloat] Rigorous Coffee Shop Bloat Testing

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Wed Sep 4 01:49:00 EDT 2019


On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 06:24:07 +0300
Jonathan Morton <chromatix99 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > On 4 Sep, 2019, at 6:17 am, Dave Taht <dave at taht.net> wrote:
> > 
> > …and people jump off of cable as soon as
> > they can get fiber... but that's due to the RTT more than the bandwidth.  
> 
> And also due to the downright predatory pricing/billing practices of the typical cable ISP.  I think an awful lot of people would take any viable alternative at this point, purely due to that factor.  Which is why cable industry lobbyists are doing their level best to kill municipal fibre.

I am convinced that all the hype about 5G will die when people see how the
ISP's in the US will want to price it. They will certainly want to charge
a premium for 5G to avoid under cutting their current overpriced service.


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