tst123ISPs complain that listing every fee is too hard, urge FCC to scrap new rule
Cameli_HostisIt sounds like providers are trying to hide monthly fees in an attempt to obscure them. My ISP will let me ‘rent’ a modem for $10 a month, but I just decided to buy my own for $60 fifteen years ago. My brain says that’s $1800 (it could be wrong, it’s late). If I didn’t know I was paying a $10 monthly fee, I’d never have bought my own.
And if a fee is actually a tax, just put that on the bill. It’s pretty simple.
ParadoxMight wanna buy a new modem. 15 years ago was, what, DOCIS2? The new DOCIS4s could get you far faster internet
VlynDue to any technical/latency improvements?
Otherwise if they don’t pay for more bandwidth it wouldn’t actually get faster, right? If the current modem can already deliver the full speed they pay for?
A lot of ISPs have silently upgraded their bandwidth peaks, without telling customers, and use rented modem speed as a way of upselling. I.e. “We’ll double your speed for $15 a month”
Buying a new modem can end-run that and get you the speeds without changing your bill. When I had comcast in the Bay Area, buying a new modem gave me an extra 100mbit up and 30 down, without any interaction with comcast.
Oh, that’s weird, here in Austria you pay for x mbit down and y mbit up, that’s what you get. No matter your modem.
That’s how it’s supposed to work but a lot of techs just forget to set the limits or update the QoS tables and so your limits are more in the physical realm
Sort of like how in the 90s and 00s you could pop the filter off the line where it came into your house and get extra channels for free