not by me....radio has always been my choice...I never watch television.....I still read the Sunday paper at the library..old habit
I hope printed paper is still around when I get into my 60s and 70s... I'd love to do just that when my life slows down. (Actually, I worked in a library for 2 years and I did this every now and then).
It's a gate master with their arms folded unless a fee had been paid. Corporate Pigs! Utube may actually cost us $.
Just think about how much the playboy channel is. Now think about bow much the internet porn package would be. The bronze package would be $50 a month and only show soft core bull shit. Silver would be $100 a month and you might get some penetration. Gold package would be $150 a month and would feed the fetishes, midgets, brazilian farts, and that dude with the grill and the 3 foot long fake dick that spurts more jizz than paris hiltons cock holster after a night of partying. Amateur porn would become obsolete as the faithful uploaders would have the free avenue of showing off stripped from them, pun intended of course.
I hadn't thought of any of this! Perhaps there is more than one issue being address with a single solution? From my view, which is living on the edge of where services are provided, the internet has never been as good in response time as you city slickers seem to need so desperately. Thanks to your tutoring, I now know why. But as things improved, small step by even smaller steps, it became adequate to gather information. The first Satellite internet was a huge step forward from the dial up connection. Not great at 750k download speed but really much better than the 59k telephone. But then it soon was actually worse, as people began downloading the shit out of stuff. The provider would indeed throttle people once they exceeded their monthly allocation, but the system became so damn over loaded that no one could get anywhere near the download capacity we were suppose to get. The system could not delivery to all the users the plethora of download data requested from so many sights. The system died of it lack of manageability and people walked away as it was not worth any price. There was a period of poor choices then but over the air data connection like Verizon filled the gap for awhile, expensive and slow and data caps, all annoying. Then we got DSL after Verizon sold the phone company to Frontier. Wonderful! Geez, in the tall grass now with 3meg download speeds. Man I can do all I need, well nearly. Trying to watch a Blazer game on the internet sucked as you were always waiting for a buffer to fill. Herky Jerky shit. No need to watch that! Now as more and more people stream more stuff the response time for even the people that just want to access websites is shitty. Like it is a real pain in the ass to have your website time out when filling a form because the providers system is just overloaded, primarily with streaming data. Who should pay for internet hardware needed to satisfy the end users? You can't tell the guy in the middle he can't throttle! Excess requests exceeding hardware capacity will effect it automatically indiscriminately if the middle guy doesn't manage the load. It seems to me, there are origin users uploading data, and end users downloading data that should pay for volume and speed at some point in the equation. Perhaps the concept of Net Neutrality can only apply to the users in the middle ground of bits/second count. Porn might get a little costly up and down. History as I see it. Extra blacklight bundles do nothing until you add a digital light on the ends. The question is who pays for volume and performance? Probably unfair as hell to load everyone with the price of porn.
We already paid for it. $5000 for you to have high speed internet. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5839394.html
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it was never delivered. MY DSL line is pure copper. No blacklight layed, not digital light ready. I think Verizon took the money and ran, leaving Frontier with list and an worn out trencher.
Taking the handcuffs off isn't going to improve the system. In theory, an open market should stimulate growth and improvement, right? Well, these companies don't WANT an open market. They're spending money on buying off politicians and fighting competition, rather than spending money on improving infrastructure. They're trying to take us back in time to data caps and paying more for less, rather than upgrade their equipment.
Bandon has trans pacific cable. Seems like it shouldn't be that hard to get high speed internet. You need to talk to your elected representatives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPC-5CN
cut off their service and they'll hook you up with the new shit real fast to keep your business....once they realize you don't have Alzheimer's...they negotiate
Yes, they have pretty good internet system in the City of Bandon and the Golf course. The surround area is serviced by Frontier with the state of art early 20th century phone service with DSL superimposed on the copper cable. It is suppose to work on one line but it don't so most people have to put in two lines to eliminate the cross chatter. Spendy stuff when you count it all up. I sort of planned ahead a bit when I built the house. Put in several lines to the pole and to the house from the pole. So when frontier hooked me up they told me is would suck on one line, but I said go ahead, it's ok. So they did. When truck left, I just move the wire to the second line I already had wired to the house. Works as well as 3meg speed will. Hell the federal tax on the second line is damn near $10. An that is another problem with getting Internet from the phone company, you get taxed like it is a phone. Have I bitched enough yet?
