Americans Getting Ripped Off For Internet?

[jamesnmlaw]

Like military spending to support our 'allies' and subsidies to farms and pharms, the US is the world's sugar daddy.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by Tobra

You sir are correct. I have to use a business account at the house to have the ability to log on to electronic health records.

It costs triple, and is marginally better than standard home service.

Is that because you need a known static / dedicated IP that they can whitelist?

You can buy dedicated IP's from VPN providers and they are dirt cheap comparatively.

[john70t]

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

TX prohibits municipalities from creating their own networks.

not to parf this.....and I am skeptical of centralized sources...but from the technical side:

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/chattanooga-the-first-10-gigabit-internet-city/
I'm lucky. While Google didn't bring 1-gigabit internet to Asheville, NC, my local ISP, Charter-Spectrum, guarantees me 100Mbps speeds but I usually see even faster speeds: 125Mbps. That's great. But, off to the West, in Chattanooga Tenn., the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga (EPB), a publicly owned utility, is bringing 10-gigabit internet to its customers.

https://money.cnn.com/2015/03/25/technology/tennessee-fcc-internet/index.html
But now Tennessee is suing to stop Chattanooga -- and strengthen the control that cable companies have in the state.
This is an Internet provider turf war.
Last month, the Federal Communications Commission stepped in to protect a city's right to provide high-speed Internet for its own residents.

by Jose Pagliery @Jose_Pagliery March 25, 2015: 4:50 PM ET

[GH85Carrera]

I am on Cox Cable. I have the TV cable with several premium channels, and 4 email addresses. I upgraded my internet to their "Gigablast" service. I have never seen the full 1024 Mbps per second, to be a true Gig of speed and they said until they have Fiber connection to the house, and through the house to my modem, I never will.

I "only" get the lower to mid 900s Mbps down and usually beat the designated upload speed of 35 Mbps. The main reason I have the high speed service is the upload speed. My business often produces large data files. To get them to our customers I can upload them to our Microsoft One Drive FTP site. Yesterday I had to upload just one client's files and it was a total of 12.7 GB. It consisted of 4 different Zip files, the largest was 5.9 Gig and a 5.7 gig and some small about a gig a piece files.

It used to take many hours to upload the large files. Now just a few minutes.

To get their Gigablast service I pay right at $100 per month on top of my regular cable TV bill. No phone service from them.