Comment on [Discussion] What's your "this has bothered me for way too long" movie moment?
Taleya@aussie.zone 3 months ago
People randomly being able to increase their bandwidth. It’s less so now (and happens less) but jfc seeing plot points in the oughts where something like an adsl connection was instantly beefed to ‘moar bandwidth’ on the fly with no one dealing with any of the infrastructure that physically rate limited (especially at the exchange) makes me graaar
mark3748@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Back in the day we used to hack cable modems to uncap the speed. Most of the time, and even more so now, the limits are artificial and a quick call can upgrade your service.
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
A quick call and usually a larger sum of money.
mark3748@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Yeah, that part too
Taleya@aussie.zone 3 months ago
I know. That’s why I specifically mentioned ADSL, which unlike cable has limitations end users can’t override due to how it’s implementated at the exchange
mark3748@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
ADSL is provisioned similarly. You can just re-provision and up the speed beyond your current service level.
Taleya@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Yup but the speed is rate limited on the telco end by literal codes implemented at the exchange. The issue is have is with end users shown blithely ‘flipping a switch’ to increase their ADSL speed on the fly. I literally used to program the AXIS codes for bigpond, you can’t override that shit from the user end