Subj : Re: Which VPN?
To   : Nightfox
From : Gamgee
Date : Fri Jul 07 2023 01:27 pm

-=> Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ga> In my area, or at least the location of my house, that is not an option,
 Ga> assuming one wants broadband/cable internet access. Yes, that's right,
 Ga> there are still plenty of monopolies allowed to do business. My ISP (a
 Ga> major/nationwide one) is one of them.

 Ni> Yeah, it's frustrating when monopolies are allowed to continue
 Ni> being monopolies.  Where I am, it seems there's a monopoly on
 Ni> cable services - There's really only one big company I can think
 Ni> of that offers cable services here, and it's been like that for
 Ni> quite a while.  In the late 80s through the 90s, I remember there
 Ni> being maybe 3 cable companies that offered cable TV services.
 Ni> When broadband internet started being offered (early 2000s), that
 Ni> was when most of the cable companies dropped off and it got down
 Ni> to just one cable company.

Yes, there are a couple other cable companies in the general area here, 
but it seems like they've "divvied up" the neighborhoods and everyone is 
only served by ONE of them.  No possible way to get the other one to 
service your house.  Also no Fiber in this area.  I think there might be 
ATT DSL type service, but who would want that.  The day that somebody 
knocks on my door and asks if I want the new Fiber hooked up, is the day 
I cancel with my cable company.

 Ni> Where I am, thankfully there are other options if you're mainly
 Ni> just concerned with internet service.  But I know there are areas
 Ni> where that's not really the case.

Yup, here is one of those areas.  Really aggravating.



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