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That's true that they have no authority, but the ISPs should have the authority to charge large freeloaders more like Netflix, which has been coasting by hogging a significant percentage of bandwith (paid-for by everybody) at any time (can be easily 20%+ during peak hours) and pocketing the profits for that.

That's a non issue the networks are all upgraded now this isn't 1997 anymore.

The biggest problem today is being to far from the source and that I don't really have fiber like they sold us 5 years ago, but copper.
Being to far away when the signal get's noisy it doesn't matter if I'm watching a youtube video or just loading a Patnet page, the computer freezes and the browser locks up then the wifi radio goes dead.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/att-uverse-copper_b_2522703.html

I just made a rather disturbing finding. AT&T's U-verse service -- its broadband, internet and TV service -- is a copper-to-the-home service. More importantly, it is a fiber-to-the-press-release. Going though hundreds of blogs and articles as well as AT&T's state and federal testimony and filings -- including AT&T's recent FCC petition to close down the Public Switched Telephone Networks, (PSTN), AT&T never once mentioned that AT&T's U-verse is a copper-based PSTN service. U-verse uses the same, exact wires that have been in homes and offices for decades, even though AT&T is claiming that the PSTN is "too old" and needs to be "retired," closing down about 50 percent of their 22 state territories' utility networks.

Mr Happy says:"Being to far away when the signal get's noisy it doesn't matter if I'm watching a youtube video or just loading a Patnet page, the computer freezes and the browser locks up then the wifi radio goes dead."

We should pay only for the speed we receive, with a credit any time we freeze,lock-up or slow down.

Dumb ass Americans.

I've considered shutting down my service. I can expand the garden & ride my motorcycle.

I know,I know. GOOD RIDDANCE!