2G, 3G, 4G, 5G mobile data made some sense as it represents generational leaps in the technology itself but then Xfinity wants to advertise "10g" internet... - eviltoast

Comcast says it represents a 10 Gigabit cable internet network they are building (it doesn’t exist) so they are basically changing the meaning of the g from generation to gig to act like 10g is 5 generations better (or twice as fast)…or that they have a 10 gigabit network. Neither is accurate. It’s still just cable internet that people have to use because they have no other option.

Fuck Comcast.

I read online they are abandoning the “confusing” 10g branding but I just saw a commercial for it. They think all of their customers are morons and count on folks having no other choices in a lot of cases.

Apologies to anyone outside the United States, this is just complaining about our poor internet options and deceptive advertising by greedy corporations.

  • brlemworld@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    9 months ago

    They should be forced to have a standard like a food label. Should show average speed and uptime for past 12 months

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      9 months ago

      Crazy idea…

      Phone OS developers often fight with carriers about the network labels that get displayed on a phone’s status bar. Carriers often demand a certain name and label to be shown.

      Apple does some shitty stuff, but they have often been able to strong-arm carriers into industry-wide customer experience improvements, because they have a monopoly on iOS and have fast OS update adoption. Apple should just push a software update that always shows bandwidth instead of “4G,” “LTE,” “5G.” Then they should update their maps app to show crowd sourced bandwidth speeds across a carriers’s network.

      Air their dirty laundry and watch them squirm.

      • thecrotch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        21·
        9 months ago

        Good idea on theory but it would have to constantly be doing speed tests in the background and those eat up a ton of bandwidth. All the phone knows is what kind of network it’s connected to and what kind of signal strength it has

        • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          9 months ago

          Cellular networks a can already monitor bandwidth, signal strength, packet loss, etc. They just need to expose that data to the public. There is no need for extra “speed tests.” The network’s speed can be measured during an upload / download to a phone.

          • thecrotch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3·
            9 months ago

            That’s not an effective metric because you don’t know the network speed of the host that the user was downloading from. It’s impossible to tell if the network is slow, or the site they visited was throttled to .5mb. speed tests work because the server you’re downloading from is a known entity