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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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Fraud is legal if you're doing it to consumers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

If you finance the campaigns of the folks who make the laws anything can be made legal

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

United States of Advertising

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It was hilariously reading the presser on NBCComcrap talking about how 10G DOCSIS development is progressing and they could almost hit 10Gbps in labs on the downlink but uplink would only be a few hundred megabits tops. Like, none of those numbers are worth selling a marketing brand of "10G". Real fiber Internet can hit it, my provider offers 10Gbps/10Gbps. That could be called "10G" - if we continued to conflate speed with generations like Comcrap tried to do.

I really wish the FCC would step up and slap all these companies perpetuating these weird lie terms the last half a decade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Haha yes it would be nice if the FCC wasn’t beholden to these companies based on their lobbyists flooding money into Washington…

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

Xfinity is Comcast. It’s incredible they were able to rebrand themselves.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I would be surprised if ITU lets them get away with that. 🤔

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

The next one can be called "Series X...G"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Pretty funny the blades on disposables actually did top out at 5. The Onion wins the prediction game again.

(I know there's a 6 blade brand out there but I think it's the only one, whereas all the big companies make 5. So glad I got out of the disposables and traded them for safety razors anyway-- dunno why it took me so long)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Probably fear of cutting yourself with that single blade.

That's what took me so long.

BTW, anyone here who face shaves regularly, switch to a safety razor. This is a threat.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah gotta admit I was pretty nervous the first couple times, kinda assuming I'd be just shaving and all of a sudden see a long trail of blood appear. After I got used to it though it's just as fast as using a disposable, and I haven't cut myself yet

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Of course they did. They know the average person would see xfinity saying they have 10G and assume their service is 5x better than every other service.

Ads from large companies rely on people being braindead and not complaining when the product they get is a scam or false advertising. At least, that's how I see it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

10g fights the 5g that's turning everyone into gay frogs. You won't need the 5g blockers anymore.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (3 children)

ITU defined 4G in 2008 as wireless connectivity with speed of 100 megabits per second for mobile users and 1 gigabit per second for stationary users.

LTE never achieved such speeds. It did not stop mobile operators from calling their service 4G.

ITU since then revised their definition to lower the required network speed.

5G was supposed to have network speeds of 10 gigabits per second. ITU however wisened up and are just defining it as 'fifth-generation wireless', because the mobile operators will butcher the definition anyway.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Well there you have it. If ITU hasn't defined 10G, then ISP's can call it whatever they want. It's not regulated.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

LTE Long term evolution, I think 5g is still LTE. 5g builds on the tech of 4g.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yup. 5G is LTE with more frequency bands.

Just slap one more antenna into your phone, that's how we're increasing network speed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Interesting

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I was genuinely convinced they offered 10gig service in some markets. Doesn't surprise me that its all marketing nonsense.

Just a tip for anyone who wants to know, if you have Comcast business internet they'll tell you you have to use their modem but, you can swap it out with a 3rd patty modem and use the live chat service to get it activated. Then you can send back their modem for free at a ups store. Every salesperson will tell you its not possible but it absolutely is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

If the end user was getting 10 gig I wouldn't even be all that mad about it.

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