Posted on 06/18/2014 11:42:13 AM PDT by Dallas59
True you said Wireless Internet and Sat Internet was the same as Cable internet then claimed the thread wasn't about a Cable Company. You are typical of posters who have no clue about Socratic Discourse you try and conflate terms and use straw men and non-sequitur to try and wiggle out of false hoods you post. As I've stated over and over and you have yet to refute Cable Companies have no Cable Company Competition in most areas because the have paid for such through lobbying money. The entire country except for a few truly remote areas could be wired up to cable but they are content to control their little territories and keep the competition out.
They know they will never truly have competition with wireless and Sat internet until Wireless can get way more coverage and bandwidth and Sat can get more Sats into space and more importantly fix ones that are broken, Right now they main way you fix a broken Billion dollar sat that gets severely damaged is to send another one up.
Limiting Bandwidth is just a way to rake the customer base right now with Cable they are trying to protect their outdated Cable TV Business model. Locally I am told by several how work for our cable company that everyone around here could download all day long and the system wouldn't even notice. If so then why are they talking about limiting everyone? Its for the big bucks and that is all!
“True you said Wireless Internet and Sat Internet was the same as Cable internet”
No I never did. In fact I said that they were not.
“then claimed the thread wasn’t about a Cable Company.”
The thread is about internet pricing structure changes.
“The entire country except for a few truly remote areas could be wired up to cable but they are content to control their little territories and keep the competition out.”
Apparently someone forgot to pay off our developers ...
We have coax, phone line and fiber-optics to our house.
More non-sequitur and straw man.
Try to refute in context One more time most areas not in large cities. Again you are arguing Apples and Prime Rib.
Its clear you have no concept of the issue you just rattle on and on figuring if you repeat it often enough it will eventually be true.
“Try to refute in context One more time most areas not in large cities.”
I don’t live in a large city.
I see tell us where you live then
Also try to refute in context (so you don't look so much the fool) You selected this bit: “The entire country except for a few truly remote areas could be wired up to cable but they are content to control their little territories and keep the competition out.” and then posted the above as a supposed in context reply.
The problem is you removed it from the context Here is the full text in context: "As I've stated over and over and you have yet to refute Cable Companies have no Cable Company Competition in most areas because the have paid for such through lobbying money. The entire country except for a few truly remote areas could be wired up to cable but they are content to control their little territories and keep the competition out."
Then you reply with:
Apparently someone forgot to pay off our developers ... We have coax, phone line and fiber-optics to our house.
As we see total Non-sequitur...
You are trying to refute my premise by replying with a nonsensical answer that uses out of context parameters.
You first
How about a tiered system, where users pay more based on their actual use? Oh, and a cap on rate increases?
Windows 7 has “desktop gadget gallery”, you can DL utilities for it: http://addgadgets.com/. One of those is a nice bandwidth meter with multiple functions .
I use it primarily to track the speed and stability of my throughput.
Info:
Network Meter Network Meter is an advanced network desktop gadget for Windows. It shows your SSID (Service Set Identifier), signal strength, internal and external IP addresses, blacklisted IP ratio, IP lookup with Google Maps, Internet speed (upload and download), firewall check, remaining data (quota, usage, and day), total data usage, and whether your connection is secure. It also includes flyout features that display all of your network information.
Gadget version: 9.6
Last updated: 15 October 2013 New!
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