this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2023
1026 points (98.7% liked)

Technology

59148 readers
2721 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

FCC says “too bad” to ISPs complaining that listing every fee is too hard::Comcast and other ISPs asked FCC to ditch listing-every-fee rule. FCC says "no."

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

there is a finite amount of bandwidth.

And why after saying "you will not get more than 100Mbit/s" they say "also you will not get more than 10Gbit/mo"? It is not just a note about theoretical limit, but actual data cap.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Because they can then let you get faster bandwidth, but you don't soak it all up. That's the general idea at least but it doesn't apply to today.