Meanwhile Comcast keeps rolling out price increases
My Internet bill went up $5/month.
Every damned year
Ehhh, in my experience, 1Gbps is a very good speed already, what would please me more is lower latency.
That’s the main reason I haven’t bothered upgrading mine any more.
100mbits with 3ms latency is pretty rocking.For commercial stuff, 50Gbps is probably useful. Especially if you’re not large enough to commission your own fibre cables but for the average person it’s probably not too useful - at those speeds you’re transferring fast enough to saturate even the fastest of commercial device storage.
That is a lot of propaganda/sec
- Noam Chomsky: The five filters of the mass media machine
- You’re Not Immune To Propaganda
- Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion
- Edward Bernays, Propaganda
- Michael Parenti,
- Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
That is not a subtle deflection. The so-called great firewall is indefensible, as it would also be anywhere else it was implemented.
In other news….
Since the Two-State Solution post got deleted yesterday, I was unable to reply to your comment directed at me when I pressed Send, so I’ll paste it to you below. Ciao.
I’m under no illusions about Western imperialism in its various forms, nor about the slippage of rights Western societies have undergone over the decades, nor about the oligarchic tendencies baked into capitalism, because I have 20 years experience studying and writing about exactly those issues.
However, I live in a world of comparatives, not absolutes, and compared to those in the cities and especially countrysides of Russia and China, I’m incredibly free. Compared to Western billionaires, CEOs, and the politicians that they own, I’m not. When I say death to all tyrants, it’s a broad brush that knows no borders since the bastards can be found anywhere we look, including DC and China, among many others.
I protect no authoritarian regime no matter whether they pretend to espouse the myths of the free market or those of a worker’s paradise. They’re both excuses for a concentration of power, and having lived in various dictatorships as well as purported democracies, I know evil when I see it, and I see it all over.
And now comes the .ml ban. :)
The so-called great firewall is indefensible
You’re right. They should have allowed US controlled monopolies to saturate their market and snuff out any chance of creating their own tech industry before it got off the ground.
who else is utterly sick of reading the word qUiEtLy in headlines
Bandwidth is fine at 200 kbps
The real question is: what’s the packet loss?
? 200kbps, which written that was is kilobits per second, isn’t fine for anything? Thats 40KB/s, and will barely run 240p youtube, some videos it’ll need 144p.
If you mean 200KB/s, that’s 480p youtube. 720p would require a video without a whole lot of movement. If you think that’s fine, go tell everyone you know to never use HD video because that wont cause any issues at all, surely.
I’ve enough with my 600Mbs, 50Gbs for an normal user don’t make much sense, it’s more interesting for big Companies with a huge data traffic or for stock options. For straming movies and downloading some piracy soft, are 200Mbs way enough.
