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Comment on [Discussion] What's your "this has bothered me for way too long" movie moment?

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.

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Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
A quick call and usually a larger sum of money.

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- mark3748@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah, that part too
  
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Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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- mark3748@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  ADSL is provisioned similarly. You can just re-provision and up the speed beyond your current service level.
  
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  - Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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
    
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    Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Movie users are simply built different and have the switch patched in all the way from their house to the exchange.
    
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