On 20/01/17 20:43, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The other day I had to argue with the lady on the phone of an ISP that wanted to upgrade automatically an internet connection speed to 150 on a site. I tried to reason with her about the absurdity of increasing connection speed on a site that uses only WiFi (it goes at 40).
On the end, I had to pull rank and tell her I was an engineer and that I knew more than her. She subsided, and instead offered a cheaper contract.
:-) Just had a marketing call from someone saying "We can sell you cheap broadband" - the implication being that they were cheaper than my current provider (difficult). I shut them up by saying I wasn't interested in cheap broadband - I wanted broadband that actually worked. The problem from my point of view is that everybody wants to sell FTTC. However, I have a direct line to the exchange (I get 17Mb from a theoretical max 20Mb). So I can't get FTTC speeds. I've been told the problem is crosstalk - FTTC only has to worry about a small number of copper wires, from one fibre. My setup has to worry about crosstalk from all the wires in the exchange, so can't run anywhere near so fast. And that's why my provider is cheap - I'm getting the maximum available which isn't market competitive. I don't care, I want internet, not broadband. And I also want IPv6, which most ISPs don't offer ... :-( Cheers, wol -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org