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| moochmcgee |
Posted on 19-05-02, 15:35
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Since: 12-27-18 Last post: 2002 days Last view: 1781 days |
Damn tomman, that's pretty late to be getting prepaid dial-up. I live in the US, and I had 10mbps broadband cable internet in 2003ish. It was also a business line lol. |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-05-02, 15:46 (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
 Post: #287 of 1317 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 2 days Last view: 5 hours |
Broadband didn't became a thing over here until 2001, and even then most places of the country didn't got upgraded until 2004 at the earliest, mainly due to technical reasons (our late-70s legacy analog phone centrals being the #1 reason: DSL required a digital backend or something like that). 256/128k was the most common service plan, with the 1M/256k being reserved for the elite. But back then CANTV wasn't the socialist shithole it became in 2007 when it was forcibly renationalized (it was just a shitty telco - their billing department was a unholy mess, but you didn't had to wait 5 years to get your phone service fixed when it failed). Even today, 10M/768K is the fastest plan they offer... but very few can actually reach HALF of those speeds. For most, the realistic limit is at 3M/768K, assuming your wiring is spotless. The competition is a joke: Cable? There is Inter, that offers a 20M connection... capped to hell and back, and with substandard performance at best (the electronics deep fryer still comes for free), and it's not available for most subscribers (In other cities, replace "Inter" with "Supercable" - same junk, different badge). And don't get me started with LOLwireless... might as well deploy IP over avian carriers :D Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| Vladiskov is missing |
Posted on 19-05-02, 16:46
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 Post: #3 of 13 Since: 04-30-19 Last post: 1950 days Last view: 1950 days |
Posted by tomman all telco companies are shitty, the shittiest one its obviusly the goverment one, but the private ones are shitty too, mostly due to the fact they can get any money out of it other than for survival in site, if something on the outside its demaged or stole (mostly these cable black boxes on the posts) they can literally take decades to fix it (unless you pay up to 100$) and still asking you to pay every month without mix Momento!, supercable aun existe? ------------------------------------------------- Porn makes everything better, even art. |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-05-02, 17:46 (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #288 of 1317 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 2 days Last view: 5 hours |
Posted by Vladiskovwashere Cable coverage here is weird. Unlike USA, monopolies are uncommon: you usually have two choices on most cities, and it's only at very small towns (think remote rural places) where you have no choice but the incumbent cableco (usually those places still run their rudimentary cable providers, where the concept of Community Antenna TV is still kickin' alive, now with Telemundo telenovelas on top!). Supercable footprint is non-existing outside largest cities (i.e. Caracas, Puerto La Cruz, Puerto Ordaz), while Inter tends to cover the rest of the country rather well thanks to their local mom-and-pop cableco buying spree in the late '90s (that's how they entered my city in 1997, by acquiring the two local cable providers). If you're at the west/center, your options are usually Inter/SC/NetUno (pick any two). East/South? Swap NetUno with Planet Cable. ...and then, you always have satellite, which ate the cable subscriber base for breakfast: once DirecTV started offering prepaid services, cablecos started bleeding consumers (this is why now Inter offers sat service too. Hell, even CANTV does sat TV now... if all you want to watch is communist propaganda and -if you're lucky- Discovery Channel). But then, satellite is useless for data services unless you're Big Oil or a bank. And even if you can afford it, it will still be a miserable experience (one of my banks was unable to get any kind of wired service when they opened their local branch 4 years ago, so they have to deal with a utterly shitty sat provider whose uptime has as many nines as Cirno's IQ - even their sole ATM works over satellite IN THE MIDDLE OF A MEDIUM-SIZED CITY!) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| Vladiskov is missing |
Posted on 19-05-10, 03:30
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Post: #4 of 13 Since: 04-30-19 Last post: 1950 days Last view: 1950 days |
Posted by tomman Oh yeah i remember the early 2000's buying spree, the main cableco on my city got depromoted to a shitty local tv channel when inter bough it, although its the only place you can get quality 90's cartoons nowadays. And yes, the point of this is, dont even try to play online, its shitty. changing back to the Thread suject, how long before starwars have to go Mickey to survive? ------------------------------------------------- Porn makes everything better, even art. |
