Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
The thing that a lot of people forget is that broadband policy in the US is really regressive. Just because you'd like to take advantage of the option of leaving doesn't mean there aren't significant portions of the country that are effectively off-limits (unless your remote work can be done over dial-up). And even in the regions that have broadband, many such markets are mon- or duopoly broadband-markets — so providers have things like bandwidth caps: between the bandwidth you use for your job, are you going to have enough left over for your non-work Netflix-and-chill hours?
I mean, I wouldn't mind moving back to the region I grew up in …but, having Xfinity as, effectively, my only broadband option makes that a non-starter.
Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
I have friends, family co-workers that are stuck with Xfinity as their only option. On a Mbps/$ basis, the less competitive the market, the higher Xfinity prices their offerings ...while simultaneously reducing the speed-options available. And, unlike, say, FiOS, there's always Xfninity's monthly data-limits (which, like speeds, vary by how many provicer-options subscribers have available to them).
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The thing that a lot of people forget is that broadband policy in the US is really regressive. Just because you'd like to take advantage of the option of leaving doesn't mean there aren't significant portions of the country that are effectively off-limits (unless your remote work can be done over dial-up). And even in the regions that have broadband, many such markets are mon- or duopoly broadband-markets — so providers have things like bandwidth caps: between the bandwidth you use for your job, are you going to have enough left over for your non-work Netflix-and-chill hours?
I mean, I wouldn't mind moving back to the region I grew up in …but, having Xfinity as, effectively, my only broadband option makes that a non-starter.
I don't know if I agree with you on that. I live in the middle of Indiana and do just fine with Xfinity and it really is not bad at all.
I have friends, family co-workers that are stuck with Xfinity as their only option. On a Mbps/$ basis, the less competitive the market, the higher Xfinity prices their offerings ...while simultaneously reducing the speed-options available. And, unlike, say, FiOS, there's always Xfninity's monthly data-limits (which, like speeds, vary by how many provicer-options subscribers have available to them).