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HughBeaumont

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3. Isn't this how AOL went down in flames?

Reply to NYC_SKP (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 15, 2014, 06:39 PM

Jan 2014

They tried to keep everyone in their crappy dial-up black boxes and made going to the outside difficult?

Eventually, I just aced them and went with a local ISP until I got broadband. Hope WOW doesn't pull this shit.

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Surprised no one's posted this yet re: The Death of Net Neutrality. [View all] HughBeaumont Jan 2014 OP

Why can't there be ISPs like there use to be upaloopa Jan 2014 #1

Actually, it's the reality they want to create and are creating, modeled after Cable Sucky TV. NYC_SKP Jan 2014 #2

Isn't this how AOL went down in flames? HughBeaumont Jan 2014 #3

Sadly, the plan was already set in motion and rolling downhill several years back Blue_Tires Jan 2014 #4

Ouch! ananda Jan 2014 #5

I'd go without before I'd have to settle for DSL. lpbk2713 Jan 2014 #6

Multiple large threads already running: ManiacJoe Jan 2014 #7

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