I am trying to move to an area southeast of Boston. One major problem with this plan however, is the lack of broadband internet out there. All that's available is Comcast with their pathetic 8 megabytes per second service.
It's not like I watch YouTube all day, I need a fast connection to deliver my streaming stock and futures quotes. A slow or unreliable internet feed could cost me mucho dinero.
Why is only Comcast available out there? Well, I am not quite sure but I gather that the People's Republic of Massachusetts granted local monopolies to certain ISPs in an effort to "even things out". Heck, who could ever understand their motivations?
Regardless, Charter, Verizon FIOS, and RCN cable are not available in this area and I can't imagine spending the serious money I am about to for a home and having to endure Third World internet service. Mere words can not express how much this is stressing me out. Right now, my RCN connection runs at a freakish 50-60 MB/s - how the heck am I going to adjust to speeds one sixth as fast?
I called the other cable companies to ascertain if they would soon be expanding service to my preferred destination - but they aren't.
Then I started googling for info on the future roll out of Verizon FiOS and I found a Boston Globe article that just put my angst over the edge.
ROLLOUT BY VERIZON TRIGGERS CONCERNS
Network offered mostly in affluent, white suburbs
Verizon Communications Inc. yesterday added four more overwhelmingly white, mostly well-off Boston suburbs to the Massachusetts communities where it is deploying an advanced fiber-optic network that can deliver cable television.
Markey, who is the senior ranking Democrat on the House telecommunications subcommittee and has called for ''legal prohibitions against economic redlining in the deployment" of broadband, struck a middle-ground tone in an interview yesterday.
But Verizon is also deliberately beginning to market services where it sees the best chance to make money.
Elsewhere in the country, who gets next-generation service, and when, sometimes gets controversial. SBC Communications Inc. has been denounced for ''digital discrimination" in video rollouts by Chicago-area clergy members calling themselves the Ministerial Alliance Against the Digital Divide.
Behold the mortal sin of "deliberately" trying to make money!!!
So what next? Are they going to force Sushi restaurants to expand to the slums of Dorchester and Roxbury?
Even with all the yoga breathing and chi management, it takes every ounce of my energy to keep the socialists from depressing my life here in perhaps the worst state in the union.
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At this point, I've got to ask why you are insistent on living in Boston/MA when it seems like your occupation would allow you to telecommute from just about anywhere in the country/world.
Wife wants to be closer to the family? YOU want to be closer to the family?
I'd just think that someone with your seeming job mobility would be looking to take advantage of the opportunity and live somewhere nicer and cheaper and less aggravatingly socialistic.
Oh and 50-60MB/s... what the hell?! Do you mean megabytes or megabits?
Either way that is disgustingly fast. I got all excited when my roommates and I signed up with RCN last year in our apartment and we were getting 6-700KB/s on our downloads. Back home in CA I cheer when I get 400KB/s, and that's the "fast" residential package in the area.
I think ISP download speeds are also artificially slower than they could be with actual competition in the market, just like cell phone capabilities, features and quality of service all lack in the not-quite-a-market we currently have.
why the speed of internet connection is such a big deal? Is it because you have too many things streaming to your monitors in real time? If that is the case, then why not just use multiple lines?
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