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How a DIY Network Plans to Subvert Time Warner Cable's NYC Internet Monopoly

posted by martyb on Wednesday January 27 2016, @10:27AM   
from the making-connections dept.

AndyTheAbsurd writes:

In a warehouse basement in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood late last year, a handful of self-taught network engineers gathered to casually discuss how they might make Time Warner Cable irrelevant in their lives.

Toppling—or at least subverting—a telecom monopoly is the dream of many an American, who are fed up with bait-and-switch advertising campaigns, arbitrary data caps, attacks on net neutrality, overzealous political lobbying, lackluster customer service, and passive-aggressive service cancellation experiences that are a common experience of simply being a broadband internet customer these days. The folks at NYC Mesh are actually doing something about it.

http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/how-a-diy-network-plans-to-subvert-time-warner-cables-nyc-internet-monopoly

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Original Submission

• Oh, the monopoly! Oh, the monopoly! (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 27 2016, @10:57AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 27 2016, @10:57AM (#295220)

  Except there isn't any monopoly. You have at least four mobile carriers to choose from, and you choose cable. Because you're fucking stupid.

  "But it slow slow slow slow slow slow slow slow slow slow slow," you whine.

  Really? How about you install AdBlock? You know AdBlock. You love AdBlock. Fucking use it, whiner, and stop watching video ads, you moron.

  "But it still slow slow slow slow slow slow slow slow slow slow," you whine.

  Really now. 2 Mbps is fast enough for me! Why are you such an entitled whiny asshole millennial? Oh sorry, "entitled" and "whiny" and "asshole" and "millennial" are all synonyms, aren't they.

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• Re:Oh, the monopoly! (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 27 2016, @11:40AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 27 2016, @11:40AM (#295230)

  Cavemen were fine with 0 Mbps. Just because you like to live in a stone age does not mean everyone else should too.

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