[mindslight]

The problem with municipal Internet is the town will build it out once, and then never upgrade the technology while it slowly becomes obsolete </s>.

Seriously though, municipal fiber is fantastic. I've been an observer to friends having conversations about Internet provider woes, while I just sit there shaking my head. I've only got 1Gb but I rarely care about the bandwidth, consistent <15ms ping to close data centers, there's no data quotas, no yearly fuckery where they dick you around with the price and you have to wait on hold to threaten to cancel and commit to a longer term, and I haven't noticed any downtime in years. It just works.

[yborg]

The OP story is literally the municipal provider delivering 25x faster service over 12 years. The "never upgrade the technology" provider is usually going to be monopoly Comcast, because they know your other option is a can and string.

[CitrusFruits]

The little "</S>" indicates sarcasm. Sometimes people also just type "/s".

[icedchai]

So true. Almost 10 years after DOCSIS 3.1 was released, we still don't have better upstream speeds. I wonder, is there a cable company anywhere that actually does support DOCSIS 3.1 upstream?

[mindslight]

Sarcasm. It's a useful skill that fosters self awareness and builds your memetic defenses. And I even included a free tag to help train your detector.

[drBonkers]

Do you have any books or resources on how sarcasm affects self awareness and memetic defenses?

[mindslight]

I don't know what a book could do for you, as it would be too literal/linear regardless of the meta. What I do know is that understanding sarcasm requires critically evaluating everything you take in, and being keenly aware of the context around it. (Hence it being good to tag impersonal written communication - if we were meatspace friends you'd already have a strong assumption that I wasn't a Ma Bell lobbyist drone). And hearing corporate marketing speak parodied sardonically makes you less likely to just accept it when you're earnestly inundated with it. I'd also say this topic is closely related to "security thinking" where one critically examines the converse/implication of every statement.

[dqpb]

> The problem with municipal Internet is the town will build it out once, and then never upgrade the technology while it slowly becomes obsolete

The fastest Comcast internet still only has 40mb upload. 25gb municipal internet will be faster than Comcast internet for at least the next century.