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Did you try feather as well? Ive read good reviews on Feather and Astra, but I ordered feather and was less than impressed. I mean they are better than Derby's, but I must have some thick ass hairs or something. Another problem is probably that I only shave every 4-5 days, but I wont be...

Obviously they need to vertically integrate strategic price point deliverables for global synergy.

Yeah I priced out an Iridium phone and data package when I bought my sat phone a while back. I have a Globalstar for a reason.

Thank goodness there is a miracle patch coming. Preording now.

I still stand by my post that combat is like LotRO on a satellite connection.

I think they were probably holding out for some form of reimbursement or just planning to throttle the shit out of it. The problem with caches is it really doesnt change anything for the end user, and changes little for the provider (especially a large one like Verizon). They will save a...

Why not just have your upstream in the IXP build out 100 ft to your own hut? Even TWC will do this for wholesale to competitors

Blocked or just not interested in joining your co-op? I'd be interested to hear more details on an item like this.

Mikrotik can do anything you could ever want it to do and more. But, its a pain in the ass for your first one.

But you still torrent movies/HBO/Other primo shows right? What about music? I dont think many torrent music anymore, but that was the driving force of all the "crackdowns on torrenting". Those were 4-12Mb files.

Unless you are running VOIP or gotta have those low ping times for gaming, your usage is probably less than your available connection and everything is fine. Or if you do lots of in network transfers, then that might help.

I believe so, probably with a nicer interface. No personal experience with it though: ASUS router quick how-to: optimize network traffic with QoS - YouTube Looks like you can configure limits per client IP and have real time and historical graphing. Probably enough for what you want to...

As could Mikrotik's Torch tool

You are probably going to want to run something with DD-WRT. Mikrotik is probably beyond what you want to learn, but you definitely need something that is not an OEM firmware. Then you can set daily limits, speeds per time slots, etc

I would say a little of both, but the biggest factor is scale. The ease of access for technologically impaired to consume huge amounts of data via streaming devices is the reason. Pretty much anyone who knew how to torrent in 2000 still torrents or uses Usenet today. Grandma with a new smart...

I prefer the term "Butt-tube cancer"

Havent been following this, but is it still going to be the GW1 style, only players in towns? I believe I remember him saying that most of the game will be playable offline too?

Yeah DCMA's are a daily occurrence for sure, but Ive never seen one for a user. Just people new to torrents or that dont understand how upload works.

People get mad for some reason when really beautiful buildings and structures collapse killing everyone inside.

I havent subbed in 3-4 years any groups, but I havent heard of any providers receiving DMCA notices for users of usenet. I figured 99.9% of the web still didnt know about it.

Way to break the first and second rule about usenet.

How about not ONLY due to a Comcast monopoly.

I was already proven wrong on this. It was customer losses. And even if they were, you could thank the IRS for that one

Not whining. Explaining why all you whiney customers will actually start paying more for less than you do now, in the near future. And it's not because of a Comcast monopoly

I do just fine. And yeah, looks like they were prepping to buy more existing infrastructure. Edit: after 26 quarters of losses

Already covered in detail. Cost is insane, usage has crippled profit margins.

Existing infrastructure. See other costs if infrastructure is already paid for. Get all your neighbors to pay $200/month + $5000 install charge and you will have fiber by the end of the month

And this really will be my final post, I swear. For every successful municipal internet service venture, I would wager 10 fail within 3-5 years. However, this is 2nd hand knowledge, and not my area of infinite wisdom The biggest factor with streaming is that the bit-rates are scale-able...

What? I guess you don't understand rolling brownouts. And power companies like Avista send you free energy efficient bulbs. And give you rebates for energy efficiency. And charge you more the more you use. And pay you for backfeed. And make you pay cost for new buildouts. And this is a...

Anyone who doesn't live within 1 mile of the dslam (or for 50mbps, like 1/4 of a mile realistically, and only very new lines?)

Definitely a common occurance, and my number one priority personally (providing advertised speeds 24 hrs a day) Who is your provider? Is it DSL?

Yeah I test it all the time, and hundreds of customers confirm. Hulu ads wont, because often their ad servers suck and aren't available in that low of quality, but that is all. What is more likely is that you are not getting consistent 1 or 3Mbps, or possibly busting is causing you to jump up...

Not true. Netflix, youtube, hulu, etc will all stream without buffering at 1 Mbps in 360 or 480p depending on the codec.

This game keeps getting worse for me. I crash far more often, sound is even more glitchy, and 90% of the stuff I find now is worthless.

Humble Brad received $50 from me. Humble Brad turned future CEO shitting out content made in a day in attempts to hide that they had nothing more than an idea to begin with (which I was fine with, but they seem to really be avoiding that fact) does not get $50 from me. I canceled and bought...

ILEC and CLEC (and even ETCs) are actually quite regulated by the FCC Edit: although the case could be made that they can just indirectly buy off the FCC

Now that we are on to municipal I will be done. Talk about mismanagement.

FTTH is too expensive for what customers want to pay.

Yes fiber is the next tier. Maybe not FTTH, but 95% of the way there. Those costs are rolled in. They reduce the profit margin to lower than most think when usage spikes.

I think the rule of thumb (more numbers out of a hat) for fiber is about $27/foot, although it has been a couple years since I priced it. Obviously larger corps can do it for less, but this does nothing for competition barrier to entry. ISPs look great on paper because you look at how much you...