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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 23:47:34 -0400
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On 6/30/2025 8:35 PM, john larkin wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 15:30:45 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/30/2025 10:01 AM, legg wrote:
>>> Newcomer bundle - wasn't that something boffins wore around their
>>> overhanging waist?
>>>
>>> RL
>>
>> I live in the US so it's standard to offer a come-on rate of like
>> $35/month for six months or a year and then the rate jumps to like
>> $85/month (plus fees and taxes taking it to the better part of $100) for
>> some shitty-ass service like 400 Mbps down, 5-10 MBps up cable with the
>> promise of high-split getting installed sometime circa 2032.
> 
> We got cable TV and internet (and phone) as a package at home. We
> signed up for 50+50 Mbits and they have several times upgraded at the
> same price, I guess to be competitive. We're downloading now at close
> to 1G, which is way more than we need.
> 
> At work we have a Monkey Brains microwave dish. Same story, we bought
> 50+50 and actually get 500M or so.
> 
> Does anyone need more than 200 Mbits? That's enough to watch a movie
> or download most files.
> 

A WiFi 6 router on the 5 GHz band tops out at around 500-700 something 
MBps in real world conditions. But I don't really have any applications 
for that kind of download speed, either.

I would like faster up speed but it probably won't happen anytime soon, 
my city's captive cable company is probably too busy trying to pay 
lawsuits stemming from its employees murdering their customers:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_Communications>