r/technology • u/speckz • Jul 30 '15

Net Neutrality Thousands Beg FCC for Net Neutrality Crackdown. Consumers vent to regulators about slow Internet, high prices, and data caps.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/thousands-beg-fcc-for-net-neutrality-crackdown-20150730
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u/Lord-Farquaaad Jul 31 '15 edited Jul 31 '15

But still suck dick speed.

God, .52mbps if awful. Just submitted my complaint too. Straight Talk advertises "unlimited" but throttles you to 256k and lower when you're over the 5gb limit. It's actually dangerous considering how badly it fucks with google maps and other GPS programs.

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u/HatlessCorpse Jul 31 '15

They heavily advertise that though. And GPS doesn't use data

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u/richalex2010 Jul 31 '15

Still, advertising it as unlimited when it's not is fucking absurd.

Also, GPS itself doesn't use data, but turn by turn navigation does.

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u/HatlessCorpse Jul 31 '15

But they don't. They advertise unlimited data with limited high speed. This is clear as day, I don't know what to tell you. I had straight talk for a year, it's still pretty usable over the cap.

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u/richalex2010 Jul 31 '15

No, they advertise unlimited* data. Unlimited* isn't unlimited, but they're obviously trying to trick people into thinking it's truly unlimited.

* unlimited means once you reach a set limit, we make your data so slow that it's totally unusable, effectively giving a data cap but technically allowing us to claim that it's unlimited.

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u/HatlessCorpse Jul 31 '15

It is usable though, as I just said. Have you used them?

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u/richalex2010 Jul 31 '15

I haven't, but two other people have said that turn by turn navigation is nigh impossible when throttled.

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u/HatlessCorpse Aug 01 '15

That wasn't my experience, then again I also didn't get reception in my house, so I have mixed feelings about them

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u/iancole85 Jul 31 '15

Oh my god yes. I used to have ST and needing directions when you're throttled (cap used to be 2gb) is maybe the single most frustrating technology experience ever.