As someone who works for an ISP, I evil laughed through this video. Luckily my company doesn't do the data caps bullshit. However the FCC coverage map will color and entire census tract saying we serve it, just because a sliver of our exchange boundary drawn in 1910 happens to just barely cross over it. In fact we don't serve it at all.
@@DmDrae Good luck changing that in America, where the Republicans only try to gaslight all the unimportant issues to get their voters mad at the Democrats who only do the bare minimum for equal rights and still get called marxist for it. I come from the Netherlands by the way, we also have great internet in the cities but less in the country. Even here it's hard to get that changed.
@@AndreVanKammen I like how you try to turn this into a partisan issue. If you actually used some reading comprehension, you'd know that the Democrat proposals around ISP regulation is godawful. By some miracle they've managed to create proposals that INCREASE market hoops and hurdles (which creates a feedback loop for ISP lobbyists)
It is collapsing it just takes decades if not a century to fully realize. The USA's official collapse has commenced around early 2000s perhaps sooner. They will delay the inevitable end as long as possible.
@@tobymacdonald5893 Yea, it goes to show that no one is better than anyone. There's always going to be a downside to internet service no matter what country you're in.
Having retired after 27 years of working in telco, I've finally found someone that can articulate the their business model. It's still a working model today.
If that's your own picture on the avatar, they should've offered you a high paid position in marketing. You have a very trustworthy face of an engineer who know what they are doing
@@belldrop7365 Roger tells us EXACTLY how badly he is screwing us over & he is STILL in business because he's THAT good at it. We want to be strong & resist Roger's manipulation, but we CAN'T. We've been Rogered by the way..
It's scary how true this video is. It's tough to get a good price on good internet, when the competition is literally eliminated. And data caps, that is just a joke of itself.
yeah, I objectively, I'd say the problem is that the same companies that own the lines are also the only ones who can provide service on those lines. In the dialup days, there was actually competition, so prices were fairly reasonable. The worst part is new companies can't even run new lines without getting shutdown by backroom deals made between established companies and local governments.
Gigabit internet without data caps starts from around 10-15 dollars in Eastern Europe, and their ISPs have to actually pay more for international traffic to US. It can be understandable that network service fees in US are higher due to higher salaries, but data caps of wired internet are a total scam
They have to have caps, otherwise they'd make less in profit because they'd have to upgrade their systems to handle all their users at maximum bandwidth heh
So why charge so much in America? Other than, bc they can? Why are we getting screwed??? We didnt have cell phone or internet billd in the 80s, didnt have mass data leaks or hackers.....i swear this was all done on purpose for companies to sell their customers' data for profit to criminal organizations, oops ,i mean have "leaks"
This has been a problem for a while now, and there is a solution! Many cities around the US essentially have their own internet company set up- the prices and service are both much better than these monopolies. ISPs have sued cities for doing this too, insane, right? We the people have the capacity to cause change as long as we care enough to do it. I would urge you to contact your local lawmakers and talk to them about the city’s internet- it’s actually very likely they don’t even know about this issue!
Cities or electrical companies since they have right of way for the powerlines already. Last mile delivery is the hardest part and they still need to buy transit from somebody!
Oh no, but it's SOCIALISM! You have to use an inferior product by a company instead of the superior product by the government, because governments are bloated and inefficient and can't provide you with good services!
Well yeah, people hate to admit they were wrong. So once they believe the lie. It becomes about their ability to see lies. Not the fact they were lied too.
They have no choice but to accept it. That's literally how the system is built. And even if lawmakers weren't 1 billion years old and were actually knowledgeable about technology in the 21st century, the lobbying funds of ISPs will keep even young lawmakers from doing anything significant.
@@PrestoPuma A necessity that humanity lived thousands of years without? Grow crops and cattle, stop treating modern luxuries like if it's oxygen or water
Remember, Comcast/Xfinity has stated that their data caps are not to take loads off servers. They literally said that they had data caps to make more money off of people.
One of my favorite interactions was with an AT&T rep in Target, who suggested I should get their slower internet because even though it's slower, it actually "feels faster"....
Compared to what, faster than a 56K dialup modem? They didn't call DSL the Dismally Slow Line for nothing. Compared to cable Internet speeds, it's for turtles, the regular slow ones not the cowabunga, lets go for a pizza 🍕 kind.
What are people supposed to do? The decision was made against their will and it's done. ISP's aren't dumb either they will turn the lack of net neutrality into a boiling frog scenario where they do little things that suck bit by bit until we are all just used to it by the time the internet is a hollowed out shell.
I mean the fear mongers told you that without it you would have to pay separately for Facebook, or RUclips, or whatever bandwidth. And the sky didn't come crashing down. So of course they forgot, when the pro-net neutrality people's doomsday didn't come true. Net-neutrality even had a fancy marketable name that had very little to do with the actual bill(s)
@@ProjectEkerTest33 you're certainly right about that. the government takes advantage of certain controversies, to get away with other things while people are distracted. Right now is a perfect example, the government has everyone distracted with covid-19 news, so no one stays focused on the ridiculous skyrocketing inflation currently going on.
In my town, there was one internet provider. After a huge class action lawsuit they "Fell apart" and "got replaced" by another company, conveniently owned by the exact same people, charging the exact same price and having the exact same issues, lying about having the same speeds they never provide. There are two pricing options. One is $15 a month cheaper. But if you use that one, you have to rent the plastic box for $15 per month in addition to the already egregious base price. Every once in a while, my computer will suddenly lose internet, and only restarting it will bring it back online. On average, there's about one whole day every 1-2 months where the internet just doesn't work in town.
AT&T internet did me so dirty for years. I jumped at Google Fiber the nanosecond it was announced our area was getting it. So reliable, the opposite of AT&T with actual helpful customer service.
This is so accurate. Even better, many of these companies use that ability to claim entire zip codes to stop competition from getting permission to compete in their area. Especially when the federal government starts handing out grant money for underserved areas. You never saw a telecom lobbyist work faster to define an area as "served" as they do when federal tax money is on the line
Yes, imagine if you were a small business owner and opened up a grocery store, then went to the government and bribed them to not allow any other grocery stores to ever open in the entire zip code (or multiple). It sounds crazy right? That's because it is and this shouldn't be allowed for corporations either.
Ok, but does anyone in the amerikant gov't follow up with these basically un-accountable for-profit entities they shovel public money to as a matter of policy, and then actually confirm that the public money they were gifted, is actually put to its intended use? IoW, does the uS regime actually audit any of them? The uS cant\wont audit the pentagon, despite the trillions missing there, or oil corps, or the medical 'insurance' racketeers, or the 'higher-education' rackets etc. Im gonna guess the monies given to ISP's is seldom, if ever audited either.
I saw this happen in the last two years. The government offered a bunch of incentive money to encourage service providers to build in underserved areas in Nebraska. The minimum speed was something like 5 up and 25 down. If the incumbent provider couldn't hit those speeds, it was technically underserved. This meant there were literally dozens of potential markets where competing providers could go in, and the incentive money would lower the burden on the competitors to a point where it would be worth it to build in these towns. Enter the incumbent lobbyists for Spectrum/Windstream/CenturyLink/etc. First they lobbied to get that pathetically low 25Mb/s speed threshold lowered to "more reasonable" 2005-era speeds. Then they used the fact that a small fraction of existing customers in those towns were able to get decent speeds *in ideal conditions* and therefore that *entire town* was adequately served. Therefore all the companies that wanted to build those towns were no longer eligible to receive incentives to build there and those builds were no longer viable.
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i am from uruguay and the speed is quite nice and affordable. but now we have a center/right wing president and the left wing that controls public services and the intendence is doing everything they can to destroy the public services. yes ANTEL its a public service communication company. movistar and claro are their compettitotors but they have a monopoly on fixed telephone lines/fiber optics for exclusive usage of ANTEL only.
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The zip code I live in only has one internet provider. The zip code next to mine has two. I called and asked about the other internet provider and they told me that they cannot legally provide internet in my zip code, even though I live on the edge of my town and the other zip code is about two blocks away from my house. They said that they're trying to get approval in my zip code but they estimate that it would take at least 4 years.
@@kwamebushman606 Oh, lol no, none of us think we have freedom, and most of us realize we don't really have capitalism either. We just don't have a way to stop any of it from happening, is the thing.
I should mention that one of the literal best parts of where I live, Chattanooga Tennessee, is the municipal internet and power company. Back in 2010, they rolled out fiber optics throughout the city and were the first American company to offer gbps speeds to consumers. Since it is not run for profit, I get to pay less for better internet than the rest of the country. The slowest, 300 Mbps upload and download for just 57.99 a month, or if you want to go crazy and be able to download 2 hour movies in less than 3 seconds you can get 10 gbps for 300 a month. And the cherry on top? Their maintenance technicians and customer service departments are actually helpful and reliable.
We had municipal service for a long time, but it was bought out. The company didn't even update our ID to their system so it was impossible to get help without being bounced around for ages just trying to be verified that we were customers. But BILLING was sure on the job for that...
I pay the equivalent of ~74USD a month for 1gbps up and down, over here in New Zealand. Installation contractors may be a bit useless, but customer service isn't too bad, depending on your provider. Most of the time can full draw that 1gigabit speed if I'm pulling from a fast server (especially large CDNs like gdrive or mega) or lots of peers in something P2P. Worst part is the minimum >200ms international latency hahah EDIT: Worth saying, I'm in a country city, too: Masterton. Which by USA standards would be nothing more than a small town.
While that price is good for the speed, it's not great that it is the cheapest plan. That kind of speed is only helpful for super fast downloads. And most consumer equipment won't come close to 10g. 50 Mbps is more than enough for most families. I pay $45 for 120 Mbps and it's way more than I would ever use except when downloading games. I could consider going to the 60 Mbps plan for $25, because paying more for speed I don't use is pointless. Most companies cap their Game downloads around 200 to 300 Mbps anyways. I work for a small ISP. At peak usage our 400 customers use a sum total of 1.6 Gigs. To pay extra for a gig is like paying for 10 plates of food and throwing 9 in the trash. Even at a good price, am I going to buy 1 plate for $45 or 10 plates for $60. Well it seems like a great deal for 10 plates, but it doesn't matter how good the price for 10 is if I'm throwing 9 plates of food in the trash. It really comes down to 2 things. Is it worth it to you for game or movie downloads, or is it worth it to you to see it on a speed test and feel special? For most people it's not. For me it's worth being on 120 Mbps for game downloading, but not worth going to a gig, which for me would only be $75.
I spent a few weeks in Malaysian Borneo a few years ago. My uncapped unthrottled high speed mobile data only cost something like $5 for a month. You know your home internet is a rip off when an island famous for being a massive jungle has cheaper and faster internet.
I learned a long time ago that any area that is able to receive “high speed internet” is essentially free. Think of it in terms of plumbing where once a large pipe is built…it’s built. So when people pay extra for “high speed internet” what we really pay for is the engineers to build tech to intentionally slow it down (throttle). It’s the most upside down system ever devised and would crumble if everyone stopped paying for high speed internet. Also, most the taxes portion of the bill pays for the upgrades to the lines as it’s gov mandated under infrastructure. Nothing like paying for something “extra” that you’ve already paid for via taxes.
A lot of things in the USA you get double or tripled taxed for no real revelation yes. In fact taxes themselves sometimes you get double or triple taxed directly for.
The problem comes when all those connections are aggregated. These days you have about 10000 subscribers on a 10Gbps backbone all thinking they can have 100mbps "unlimited".
Yeah it's not like fiber optic cables ever break or get damaged by construction digging. SFPs or Line cards never go bad and those Cisco trident linecards didn't run out of ram and crash any asr9ks due to the BGP table getting too big. Inside plant, outside plant, maintenance techs, fiber splicers, field techs, support techs, and network engineers? All fairies they don't exist once the cable is ran it magically works forever.
@@liam3284 What are the odds of those 10000 subscribers all using the full 100mbps at the same time? Backbone links don't normally have capacity issues and are detected by scripts and augmented before it becomes a problem getting the port capacity for 10000 subscribers is the hard part.
yeah... living in a rural area, can confirm ISPs are like this. my county is rated as a high coverage area, with great speeds because we have Fiber. sounds pretty sweet, right? well... the town itself technically sits on top of a fiber backbone, but very few buildings other than the amazon data centers (like... 8 of them) get to have fiber running to the backbone. the rest of us are forced to use DSL from town 30 miles away, through contractors because the company doesn't even have a local office. we don't even have cable. Heck, they ran a fiber line right behind my house and I STILL can't access it.
Very accurate, funny but true, material. Good job folks. Damn, this makes the fight of big providers that bid for monopoly look like child's play. Truth is, the U.S. folk need to be very careful on how internet works and what affordable means as well as the rules and laws of the competition is respected. A campaign of "Educate your LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES about the internet" should be set in place. If they are not versed maybe the community can help. Since it represents the very people. U.S. has what it takes in terms of infrastructure, if a place like Romania can have literally Fiber link contracts (that have 225mb/s download and 225mb/s upload) as well as 5G with as much as a $20 equivalent (in the US), that comes with TV and mobile contracts included for an extra $15 and you are all set as a bundle (the mobile option even has thousands and hundreds of minutes included nationally and internationally along with data plans that range to tens of Gigabytes). Competition and competitors must exist. As well as legislators to pass laws on data protection being vital.
@@Babihrse that is neat. I think for the gigabite connection is not expensive as well. Maybe around and equivalent of that as well. With the rest included.
While internet is overpriced in the US to an extent (not to mention the anti net neutrality bs), fiber everywhere isn’t practical in the US and not at that low of a price. Problem with the US is that it’s massive, you could fit 3 Romanias into Texas for example in terms of land and yet Texas has only 10 million more people living in it, and running that much physical fiber is extremely expensive. Sometimes there’s also issues with the cities themselves (laws etc.) , that’s what killed Google fiber. Also, since the US is less densely populated, running fiber or even coax to 3 houses is…well kinda pointless from a business perspective, you’ll probably not recoup your initial cost and maintenance costs and businesses aren’t charities.
@@roji556 that's a lot to debate and discuss about. When it comes to cables and wires running they should probably expand from big cities or towns all the way to the periphery and beyond. And about the recovery of investment, well...if you expect to recover your investment over night and not over the span of actual use over the years someone who doesn't see it this way might have some dissonance in the way business is made. Not all the time you have feedback over night over an investment. The laws and problems is just why I said you should start a program as communities to actually work with your reps. They don't know the differences between download speed and a connection IP. (in other worlds, keep them dumb, so they keep dumbing your ways of living down)
Comcast has the most pathetic pricing. So called promotional price which last for 6 months and then double up everytime. I am not sure why governments in US can allow companies to charge such a different amount to provide the same service in same area but to different people. I practically know where their service support is located and many of my friends working for the firm. I am just stunned to understand how they’re able to retain customers even with such high pricing.
@@tycoonruler6455 A lot of the older generations refuse to part with cable. I know many people in their 60s who pay $200+a month. Just to watch live sports of people kicking or throwing around balls. Yet they don't even use the tv otherwise. Other's watch MSM talking head propaganda. Yet they to don't even use the tv otherwise. Attempt to explain to them how wasteful this is for spending. They don't care attempt to provide them alternatives via internet for less. They don't care either suffice to say. These ISP's often provide cable tv services as well. The older generations are funding them far more than younger ones.
Some providers even started to block certain websites! That is illegal but as long as people don‘t complain loud an publicly the internet providers will go on doing that and more. Good video!
It depends on where you live, in Ukraine, a bunch of russian companies are sanctioned (because of the war) and NOT blocking their sites is illegal (you can use VPN, sites aren't banned, just their hosts blacklisted so they can't earn ad revenue in Ukraine).
@Koowluh Oh, they don't actually _care_ if you visit the sites through the use of a VPN, they still get your check. Just like how Netflix hasn't cracked down on any of the VPNs that allow you to spoof being in another country to get a different set of shows, which is so widespread now even this channel has advertised it. It's just plausible deniability on their part; when the angry mob of Karens marches up to their front door they want to be able to say they've 'done all they can.' It's not their fault, they're just a scapegoat!
1:49 was always surprised with the fact that internet in Belarus village could be much better than in middleclass USA household. Especially those upload speed limits that USA ISPs provide.
Ukraine here. We'd take slower internet if that removes russian tanks from our country. And we'd certainly NOT get better Belarusian internet while losing our sovereignty in the process like Lukashenko did.
@@KasumiRINA OTAN tanks are the problem, what they are doing there anyway, specially the USA, also the Russian military training in the frontier ended, stop believing in american lies
@@sergiowinter5383 The crazy thing is the Ukraine can invite whoever they want. Turns out that the Ukraine is their own damn country. Russia sounds like a spoiled child. Russia punches someone, then when the person they punched raises their fist Russia goes "LOOK THEY ARE TRYING TO HIT ME! Now I can pull my gun since they are a threat". Pathetic.
So you're telling me the USA, the most developed country on earth, regularly drops to JARING dial-up mode in 2022? Meanwhile here in Singapore we currently have 800Mbps WiFi in my 4 bedroom apartment and we're considering upgrading to 1Gbps, while my phone gives me 18Mbps Unlimited mobile data.
Unfortunately yes.... But we use all our advance technology for *check notes* warfare. You know, so we can bomb people and stuff because it was a sunny day.
@@SkygirlGamingChannel Yes. No option so in a sense you're not free from it. And then a learn about hacking, censorship, tracking, etc. then suddenly you ain't feeling so free.
@@ianmackenzie686 I am luckly working in IT and therefor are well aware of those issues. Honestly though the effort to gain in minimizing these ricks is limited. At some point you ruin the user experience for avoiding these things as best as possible. Password Managers, VPNS(for content unlock) etc are pretty much mandatory though.
My ISP is so bad this took about 15 minutes to buffer on 144p lmao, doesn't help that I pay $180 a month for it as well. Also, the part at 2:38 is very true, my county decided to mandate internet with a $3Mill bill to give at least cable and in some areas fiber, to every house within a year. But because the local scam company everyone has would go out of business they tried suing the cable company for "Trying to run a monopoly" and now I wont get cable/fiber until 2030 at the earliest.
@@snap-off5383 Most of the lawsuit stuff is things I heard from the locals of my area over the past few years so it might be a bit exaggerated. So don't take it at 100% face value
" The parts my nephew colored with a marker...no one's checked to see if my nephew's telling the truth"😂😂WITH the "nephew" standing there in only socks! 😆 And the lagging...this video has not forgotten attention to detail. I love it. I am so glad cracked has kept doing more of this as its their more funnier content. 🐢🐢🐢Cara
I love owning a PS5 with useless arbitrary data caps. Not only did Horizon Forbidden West (great game btw) take forever to download, I also blew a 12th of my data cap.
I used to work for an isp (actually more then one just not at the same time) and oh boy the the problems I've seen and the total lack of care in them. One example does relate to those more far flung areas. The area would get oversold for the amount of bandwidth we got going to the area, so everyone there has slow speeds but they don't bother to update the system and bring in more bandwidth to the area no, they don't even try to convince people to reduce the speed packages they got to match what we can provide in the area. instead they just let the tech support department get constantly yelled at for a problem that we can do nothing about. while they collect the extra fees for a service they know they can't reliably provide in that area.
I sure do love having just 1 ISP to choose. Gotta love CenturyLink with the highest possible package being somewhere between 0 and 8 Mbps, depending on how the line feels that day. How is this even a free market when there is no competition happening?
The internet service is hugely overpriced in Canada too, especially mobile internet. I couldn't believe that the service was better and 10x cheaper in my developing country than in Canada.
The very beginning was hilarious where it starts glitching and then he's like "Where were we"? Lmao, that's about how it really is when your connection gets crappy and you get back to what you were watching when it clears up.
We had a water leak in our street last week; the intrepid engineers dug out the water pipe - including the new fibre lines and cut the main electricity cable in half. If it wasn't so pathetic it would actually be funny.
I work remote and moved to a house that I thought had internet. Well, it did (DSL), but CenturyLink cut off service the day after I moved in, saying that they were overprovisioned in the area. I was panicking, and requested a site survey from a wireless ISP, and had looked into all other options (besides satellite). I eventually found that I could use a MVNO, paying a $250 non-refundable "membership fee", and $250/mo for actual service. After three months, that wireless ISP finally contacted me to do a site survey, and I could hit a tower 6.5 miles away. I now pay $120/mo for 25/5 Mbps, but at least it's stable. I was lucky, since I live on the side of a mountain, but most people don't have this option, as they don't have line-of-sight. I hear of people complaining about the DSL service out here all the time, yet these customers aren't demanding refunds. The rest of the people have data capped cellular or satellite service. I live in a rural area, where these stupid FCC maps show that internet service is available. I'm about 10 miles from the city (same zip code), and the only decent service I can get is through the wireless ISP. I signed up for Starlink almost 2 years ago and haven't heard back since. Now I'm looking to move to the coast, and I've already come across houses that don't have decent internet service, and don't specify this in the listing. If I'm not mistaken Washington had just made this mandatory for house listings, which would be nice.
A little backstory on this - I tried transferring CenturyLink into my name 3 weeks before I moved in. The previous owners said they had service, but CenturyLink kept on saying that they didn't service the address. Getting fed up, I got the previous owner on the phone with CenturyLink, she gave them her account number, and they confirmed that there was service, but they wouldn't transfer it into anyone else's name.
My wife's family lives in China. We go to visit every year or two. It is truly sad how good their internet is compared to ours in the USA. Even back in 2018 Her parents were paying $100 PER YEAR for digital TV and 100 MB internet. Several of our friends over there have 1 Gig service and pay about $20 per month. So most people, within the cities, could get far faster internet and pay, per YEAR, about what we pay per month.
He’s wrong on zip codes. They can claim a census block served if there’s a single eligible home. If a zip code were a single census block he would only be correct in that instance
The man can cook up a mean diatribe,and actually be compelling about his points. I feel like internet\phone service should be regarded as essential as power or water.
I like how Comcast's bargain basement cheapest service is $90 a month. Do you know how many illegal songs and movies I have to download a month to make up that difference?
Where I live on the east coast you either get the choice between Verizon or Comcast a.k.a. Xfinity, and you bet your ass they are both working together behind the scenes to keep the prices high.
Imagine what Roger would do if he were president? The country will feel the wrath of his savageness. Roger is a national treasure. Here's some Roger'd episode ideas: Union Busting America's healthcare system Philanthropy The Military Industrial Complex How corporations use the excuse of inflation to increase prices America's election system
I agree with corporations raising prices because of inflation, just because printer money sucks they need to have a deficit? The scam is the government printer money steadily going down over time, obvious ponzi scheme
The suing is on point. Government owned provider tried to provide long distance backhaul, and somehow the biggest private telco sued them on the grounds "SOE not allowed to compete with private sector".
I once heard that people in North Korea think that they are a first world nation, and I would laugh and say how do they not know ( I was a child then), now as a grown adult I'm starting to realize the US isn't a first world nation in many respects.
Hi i am European and i been laughing at your idealogy of freedom for minimum decade by now. Specially when i need read all stupid labels of products which are there because mostly of USA. Latest one was ethernet cable having extra label for customers in USA and Canada prohibiting installing that cable if outside has lightning storm.
Funny timing, sort of. My internet has been screwing up on and off for the past hour. When this video was intentionally freezing I thought that's what was going on.
up to a year ago i basically had no internet service. now we have fiber and its unbelievably fast now. i missed out on alot not having internet service in my teens
*Up *ago, I *Now *it's (contraction of "it is" or "it has") its = possessive *a lot Two words, not one. Think of it like this: a few, a little, a bunch, a _whole_ bunch, a lot, a _whole_ lot. *teens.
The problem with regulations is that the companies being regulated have their people on the boards of regulators. Like for instance big oil or pharmaceutical companies. Your government is not going to help you because they are unsurprisingly easy to pay off. Politicians are not paragons of virtue, they are crooks. These videos are good at identifying problems, but not so much practical solutions. Ultimately the call for regulations will result in more companies regulating themselves and then they will pretend they are doing something about it when in actuality they screw us over more but make it seem like they turned over a new leaf. They might even engage in "philanthropy" where they say they are giving away their money but instead they put it in a slush fund like Bill Gates.
As someone who works for an ISP, I evil laughed through this video. Luckily my company doesn't do the data caps bullshit. However the FCC coverage map will color and entire census tract saying we serve it, just because a sliver of our exchange boundary drawn in 1910 happens to just barely cross over it. In fact we don't serve it at all.
Tell us who you work for!
@@sciencenate the point is it’s everyone my guy we gotta change it starting at the top
@@DmDrae Good luck changing that in America, where the Republicans only try to gaslight all the unimportant issues to get their voters mad at the Democrats who only do the bare minimum for equal rights and still get called marxist for it. I come from the Netherlands by the way, we also have great internet in the cities but less in the country. Even here it's hard to get that changed.
@@AndreVanKammen I like how you try to turn this into a partisan issue. If you actually used some reading comprehension, you'd know that the Democrat proposals around ISP regulation is godawful. By some miracle they've managed to create proposals that INCREASE market hoops and hurdles (which creates a feedback loop for ISP lobbyists)
@@bakerboat4572 pretty sure he critiqued both parties. looks like you’ve been drinking that faux news juice!
At this point, I don't know how America doesn't collapse onto itself with a monopoly at every corner.
We do though, about once a decade. That's what 'recession' means.
@@danielgehring7437 "Too big to fail!" Time for the taxpayers to reward corporate malfeasance again! Corporations are people too!
Have you heard about the rampant crime in California? At least half of the country may be even worse than some third world countries
It is collapsing it just takes decades if not a century to fully realize. The USA's official collapse has commenced around early 2000s perhaps sooner. They will delay the inevitable end as long as possible.
We're just about there... be patient.
As an Estonian, I must say...well played America, we have no chance to keep up with those prices.
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@@texasrangers4 americans will think of any excuse to say their country is the best when it’s not even close
@@tobymacdonald5893 As an American, its true.
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@@tobymacdonald5893 Yea, it goes to show that no one is better than anyone. There's always going to be a downside to internet service no matter what country you're in.
Scary how true it is, yet, I'd buy it from Roger if he was the salesman.
Yes. At least he is being honest about screwing you. Not like everyone else.
@@CSLucasEpic exaaacccttllyyyy
To be fair, you already did and he didn't sell it to you.
Roger....SHUT UP AND TAKE OUR MONEY!!
Roger is the only one I watch on here. Dude is a LEGEND!👍👍
Having retired after 27 years of working in telco, I've finally found someone that can articulate the their business model. It's still a working model today.
Makes 'Ma Bell' look good.
If that's your own picture on the avatar, they should've offered you a high paid position in marketing. You have a very trustworthy face of an engineer who know what they are doing
After counting every single business roger owns, I'm pretty certain he's almost a trillionaire.
Because Rodger is a truth teller, Horton is just barely hanging on by merging and buying out the 'next' great thing.
Can't be honest and rich at the same time.
@@belldrop7365 Roger tells us EXACTLY how badly he is screwing us over & he is STILL in business because he's THAT good at it.
We want to be strong & resist Roger's manipulation, but we CAN'T.
We've been Rogered by the way..
Sadly, @@robertpendzick9250 is right! Capitalism doesn't reward altruism, people ;)
@@3nertia foolish consumer, your attempts at resisting Roger's scams schemes & tricks are futile..
Shoutout to all the ISP workers watching this and wondering how Roger got all our internal emails
It's scary how true this video is. It's tough to get a good price on good internet, when the competition is literally eliminated. And data caps, that is just a joke of itself.
yeah, I objectively, I'd say the problem is that the same companies that own the lines are also the only ones who can provide service on those lines. In the dialup days, there was actually competition, so prices were fairly reasonable. The worst part is new companies can't even run new lines without getting shutdown by backroom deals made between established companies and local governments.
Gigabit internet without data caps starts from around 10-15 dollars in Eastern Europe, and their ISPs have to actually pay more for international traffic to US. It can be understandable that network service fees in US are higher due to higher salaries, but data caps of wired internet are a total scam
They have to have caps, otherwise they'd make less in profit because they'd have to upgrade their systems to handle all their users at maximum bandwidth heh
So why charge so much in America? Other than, bc they can? Why are we getting screwed??? We didnt have cell phone or internet billd in the 80s, didnt have mass data leaks or hackers.....i swear this was all done on purpose for companies to sell their customers' data for profit to criminal organizations, oops ,i mean have "leaks"
This has been a problem for a while now, and there is a solution! Many cities around the US essentially have their own internet company set up- the prices and service are both much better than these monopolies. ISPs have sued cities for doing this too, insane, right? We the people have the capacity to cause change as long as we care enough to do it. I would urge you to contact your local lawmakers and talk to them about the city’s internet- it’s actually very likely they don’t even know about this issue!
Cities or electrical companies since they have right of way for the powerlines already. Last mile delivery is the hardest part and they still need to buy transit from somebody!
Oh no, but it's SOCIALISM! You have to use an inferior product by a company instead of the superior product by the government, because governments are bloated and inefficient and can't provide you with good services!
Yet here we are waiting for our city's "fiber" network to be complete - 5 years later ...
@@NJ-wb1cz Weird how people think socialism works versus how it actually works heh
Or the more likely possiblity that they simply couldn't care less about internet being shit as long as it doesn't screw them over
It’s much easier to get people to believe a lie than to explain that they have been deceived.
Unless it's Roger providing the information. This sums things up quite well after all.
@@shadenone Still a lie is told in half a minute, this video has 4 and a half minutes
“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
Voila,
One of the single most commented quotes on YT!
Well yeah, people hate to admit they were wrong. So once they believe the lie. It becomes about their ability to see lies. Not the fact they were lied too.
"Can you hear me now" was a slogan that made fun of the people that still bought into Cellphones a product that never really was dependable
This is damn hilarious and downright disgusting. The sad thing is people all know this and just accept it.
They have no choice but to accept it. That's literally how the system is built. And even if lawmakers weren't 1 billion years old and were actually knowledgeable about technology in the 21st century, the lobbying funds of ISPs will keep even young lawmakers from doing anything significant.
The alternative being?
@@BloodDraek I agree, until lobbying is illegal and called "bribery," which is what it really is, nothing will change.
@Oliver Lewis But: "Money = Free Speech". Therefore it could be argued that bribery is just a form of free speech.
@@sapna263 Nothing Electronic
I like to think that advertisement departments for certain companies lose revenue thanks to Cracked's Honest videos..
Awesome, Rodger.
problem with this one is that the internet is a necessity so we HAVE to buy it.
That's "Honest™" Don't want to confuse it with anything actually honest.
Anti-trust laws don't seem to apply when there's regional monopolies. There's no where else to get Internet in my area other than Comc...er "Hortlink"
@@PrestoPuma A necessity that humanity lived thousands of years without? Grow crops and cattle, stop treating modern luxuries like if it's oxygen or water
That’s the fun part, we have to buy it!
Remember, Comcast/Xfinity has stated that their data caps are not to take loads off servers. They literally said that they had data caps to make more money off of people.
What are you going to do? Use a different provider? Hahaha!
It's criminal
One of my favorite interactions was with an AT&T rep in Target, who suggested I should get their slower internet because even though it's slower, it actually "feels faster"....
Gotta admire the commitment though.
thats a new one
😆
Compared to what, faster than a 56K dialup modem? They didn't call DSL the Dismally Slow Line for nothing. Compared to cable Internet speeds, it's for turtles, the regular slow ones not the cowabunga, lets go for a pizza 🍕 kind.
Ah remember how everyone instantly forgot about net neutrality
What are people supposed to do? The decision was made against their will and it's done. ISP's aren't dumb either they will turn the lack of net neutrality into a boiling frog scenario where they do little things that suck bit by bit until we are all just used to it by the time the internet is a hollowed out shell.
Ironically right before we had 2 years worth of proof that it was absolutely necessary.
They got distraced by the next controversy like always
I mean the fear mongers told you that without it you would have to pay separately for Facebook, or RUclips, or whatever bandwidth. And the sky didn't come crashing down. So of course they forgot, when the pro-net neutrality people's doomsday didn't come true. Net-neutrality even had a fancy marketable name that had very little to do with the actual bill(s)
@@ProjectEkerTest33 you're certainly right about that. the government takes advantage of certain controversies, to get away with other things while people are distracted. Right now is a perfect example, the government has everyone distracted with covid-19 news, so no one stays focused on the ridiculous skyrocketing inflation currently going on.
In my town, there was one internet provider. After a huge class action lawsuit they "Fell apart" and "got replaced" by another company, conveniently owned by the exact same people, charging the exact same price and having the exact same issues, lying about having the same speeds they never provide. There are two pricing options. One is $15 a month cheaper. But if you use that one, you have to rent the plastic box for $15 per month in addition to the already egregious base price. Every once in a while, my computer will suddenly lose internet, and only restarting it will bring it back online. On average, there's about one whole day every 1-2 months where the internet just doesn't work in town.
AT&T internet did me so dirty for years. I jumped at Google Fiber the nanosecond it was announced our area was getting it. So reliable, the opposite of AT&T with actual helpful customer service.
AT&T is the worst in the South
AT&T is cancer flavored herpes nuggets with aid's sprinkles on a hairy teratoma wrap covered in maggot sauce@@scott2394
Wait, Google's an ISP now? The monopolization's going crazy your side of the pond.
This is so accurate. Even better, many of these companies use that ability to claim entire zip codes to stop competition from getting permission to compete in their area.
Especially when the federal government starts handing out grant money for underserved areas. You never saw a telecom lobbyist work faster to define an area as "served" as they do when federal tax money is on the line
Yes, imagine if you were a small business owner and opened up a grocery store, then went to the government and bribed them to not allow any other grocery stores to ever open in the entire zip code (or multiple). It sounds crazy right? That's because it is and this shouldn't be allowed for corporations either.
Ok, but does anyone in the amerikant gov't follow up with these basically un-accountable for-profit entities they shovel public money to as a matter of policy, and then actually confirm that the public money they were gifted, is actually put to its intended use? IoW, does the uS regime actually audit any of them? The uS cant\wont audit the pentagon, despite the trillions missing there, or oil corps, or the medical 'insurance' racketeers, or the 'higher-education' rackets etc. Im gonna guess the monies given to ISP's is seldom, if ever audited either.
That is the one thing we do need, competition. Look at the price point of Starlink. Now that's scary!
@@amber619pop that has happened in my area for over 22 years (grocery store)!
In honesty, there are only three businesses supporting this entire town.
I saw this happen in the last two years.
The government offered a bunch of incentive money to encourage service providers to build in underserved areas in Nebraska. The minimum speed was something like 5 up and 25 down. If the incumbent provider couldn't hit those speeds, it was technically underserved.
This meant there were literally dozens of potential markets where competing providers could go in, and the incentive money would lower the burden on the competitors to a point where it would be worth it to build in these towns.
Enter the incumbent lobbyists for Spectrum/Windstream/CenturyLink/etc.
First they lobbied to get that pathetically low 25Mb/s speed threshold lowered to "more reasonable" 2005-era speeds.
Then they used the fact that a small fraction of existing customers in those towns were able to get decent speeds *in ideal conditions* and therefore that *entire town* was adequately served.
Therefore all the companies that wanted to build those towns were no longer eligible to receive incentives to build there and those builds were no longer viable.
For once a buffering video felt more immersive to the watching experience.
well remember as long as hortonlink is working your NFT's are safe!
Ha I guess so
Hahahahaha
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Should add Spectrum to the title, formerly Time Warner Cable.
Still waiting on a Rogering of the Billionaire Space Dildo Race...
i am from uruguay and the speed is quite nice and affordable. but now we have a center/right wing president and the left wing that controls public services and the intendence is doing everything they can to destroy the public services. yes ANTEL its a public service communication company. movistar and claro are their compettitotors but they have a monopoly on fixed telephone lines/fiber optics for exclusive usage of ANTEL only.
I liked that. I liked it a lot.
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This video was uploaded 1-1/2 years ago, but all of the comments are from within the past 2 months. The only explanation for this must be; I'm not the only one who's been waiting for it to load for over a year.
Thanks HortLink, top notch service as always.
The zip code I live in only has one internet provider. The zip code next to mine has two. I called and asked about the other internet provider and they told me that they cannot legally provide internet in my zip code, even though I live on the edge of my town and the other zip code is about two blocks away from my house. They said that they're trying to get approval in my zip code but they estimate that it would take at least 4 years.
Holy shit....
Because one provider has created a geographic monopoly through your local or state government. Happens all the time.
Y'all think you have freedom here and and Capitalism... couldn't be any further from the truth
@@kwamebushman606 Oh, lol no, none of us think we have freedom, and most of us realize we don't really have capitalism either. We just don't have a way to stop any of it from happening, is the thing.
If you have access to T-Mobile where there's coverage, there's an at-home 5G service that's pretty good. Cheaper than Sp*ctr*um. No data caps.
I should mention that one of the literal best parts of where I live, Chattanooga Tennessee, is the municipal internet and power company. Back in 2010, they rolled out fiber optics throughout the city and were the first American company to offer gbps speeds to consumers. Since it is not run for profit, I get to pay less for better internet than the rest of the country. The slowest, 300 Mbps upload and download for just 57.99 a month, or if you want to go crazy and be able to download 2 hour movies in less than 3 seconds you can get 10 gbps for 300 a month. And the cherry on top? Their maintenance technicians and customer service departments are actually helpful and reliable.
We had municipal service for a long time, but it was bought out. The company didn't even update our ID to their system so it was impossible to get help without being bounced around for ages just trying to be verified that we were customers.
But BILLING was sure on the job for that...
I don't see why other cities don't just do this.
I pay the equivalent of ~74USD a month for 1gbps up and down, over here in New Zealand. Installation contractors may be a bit useless, but customer service isn't too bad, depending on your provider.
Most of the time can full draw that 1gigabit speed if I'm pulling from a fast server (especially large CDNs like gdrive or mega) or lots of peers in something P2P.
Worst part is the minimum >200ms international latency hahah
EDIT: Worth saying, I'm in a country city, too: Masterton. Which by USA standards would be nothing more than a small town.
Are those high speeds actually worth the cost? Here you can get 50 Mbps for 20€, or 300 Mbps for 30€. For me, even 50 would be enough for most things.
While that price is good for the speed, it's not great that it is the cheapest plan. That kind of speed is only helpful for super fast downloads. And most consumer equipment won't come close to 10g. 50 Mbps is more than enough for most families. I pay $45 for 120 Mbps and it's way more than I would ever use except when downloading games. I could consider going to the 60 Mbps plan for $25, because paying more for speed I don't use is pointless. Most companies cap their Game downloads around 200 to 300 Mbps anyways. I work for a small ISP. At peak usage our 400 customers use a sum total of 1.6 Gigs. To pay extra for a gig is like paying for 10 plates of food and throwing 9 in the trash. Even at a good price, am I going to buy 1 plate for $45 or 10 plates for $60. Well it seems like a great deal for 10 plates, but it doesn't matter how good the price for 10 is if I'm throwing 9 plates of food in the trash. It really comes down to 2 things. Is it worth it to you for game or movie downloads, or is it worth it to you to see it on a speed test and feel special? For most people it's not. For me it's worth being on 120 Mbps for game downloading, but not worth going to a gig, which for me would only be $75.
I spent a few weeks in Malaysian Borneo a few years ago. My uncapped unthrottled high speed mobile data only cost something like $5 for a month. You know your home internet is a rip off when an island famous for being a massive jungle has cheaper and faster internet.
I learned a long time ago that any area that is able to receive “high speed internet” is essentially free. Think of it in terms of plumbing where once a large pipe is built…it’s built. So when people pay extra for “high speed internet” what we really pay for is the engineers to build tech to intentionally slow it down (throttle). It’s the most upside down system ever devised and would crumble if everyone stopped paying for high speed internet. Also, most the taxes portion of the bill pays for the upgrades to the lines as it’s gov mandated under infrastructure. Nothing like paying for something “extra” that you’ve already paid for via taxes.
A lot of things in the USA you get double or tripled taxed for no real revelation yes. In fact taxes themselves sometimes you get double or triple taxed directly for.
The problem comes when all those connections are aggregated. These days you have about 10000 subscribers on a 10Gbps backbone all thinking they can have 100mbps "unlimited".
Yeah it's not like fiber optic cables ever break or get damaged by construction digging. SFPs or Line cards never go bad and those Cisco trident linecards didn't run out of ram and crash any asr9ks due to the BGP table getting too big. Inside plant, outside plant, maintenance techs, fiber splicers, field techs, support techs, and network engineers? All fairies they don't exist once the cable is ran it magically works forever.
@@liam3284 What are the odds of those 10000 subscribers all using the full 100mbps at the same time? Backbone links don't normally have capacity issues and are detected by scripts and augmented before it becomes a problem getting the port capacity for 10000 subscribers is the hard part.
yeah... living in a rural area, can confirm ISPs are like this. my county is rated as a high coverage area, with great speeds because we have Fiber. sounds pretty sweet, right? well... the town itself technically sits on top of a fiber backbone, but very few buildings other than the amazon data centers (like... 8 of them) get to have fiber running to the backbone. the rest of us are forced to use DSL from town 30 miles away, through contractors because the company doesn't even have a local office. we don't even have cable. Heck, they ran a fiber line right behind my house and I STILL can't access it.
Very accurate, funny but true, material. Good job folks.
Damn, this makes the fight of big providers that bid for monopoly look like child's play. Truth is, the U.S. folk need to be very careful on how internet works and what affordable means as well as the rules and laws of the competition is respected.
A campaign of "Educate your LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES about the internet" should be set in place. If they are not versed maybe the community can help. Since it represents the very people.
U.S. has what it takes in terms of infrastructure, if a place like Romania can have literally Fiber link contracts (that have 225mb/s download and 225mb/s upload) as well as 5G with as much as a $20 equivalent (in the US), that comes with TV and mobile contracts included for an extra $15 and you are all set as a bundle (the mobile option even has thousands and hundreds of minutes included nationally and internationally along with data plans that range to tens of Gigabytes). Competition and competitors must exist. As well as legislators to pass laws on data protection being vital.
In Ireland it's 39 euros a month for 1000/100mbp/s
@@Babihrse that is neat. I think for the gigabite connection is not expensive as well. Maybe around and equivalent of that as well. With the rest included.
While internet is overpriced in the US to an extent (not to mention the anti net neutrality bs), fiber everywhere isn’t practical in the US and not at that low of a price. Problem with the US is that it’s massive, you could fit 3 Romanias into Texas for example in terms of land and yet Texas has only 10 million more people living in it, and running that much physical fiber is extremely expensive. Sometimes there’s also issues with the cities themselves (laws etc.) , that’s what killed Google fiber. Also, since the US is less densely populated, running fiber or even coax to 3 houses is…well kinda pointless from a business perspective, you’ll probably not recoup your initial cost and maintenance costs and businesses aren’t charities.
@@roji556 that's a lot to debate and discuss about. When it comes to cables and wires running they should probably expand from big cities or towns all the way to the periphery and beyond. And about the recovery of investment, well...if you expect to recover your investment over night and not over the span of actual use over the years someone who doesn't see it this way might have some dissonance in the way business is made. Not all the time you have feedback over night over an investment.
The laws and problems is just why I said you should start a program as communities to actually work with your reps. They don't know the differences between download speed and a connection IP. (in other worlds, keep them dumb, so they keep dumbing your ways of living down)
That's where my cable bill started ($27.00), then $50.00, now $70.00.
So, how can I get raises like that? What!? Fixed income!
Comcast always gets chosen in an annual survey as the company (any kind of company) that has the worst customer service.
Q. How do you know when comcast wants you to bring in your equipment for "upgrade?"
A. When they turn you off
Truth.
Yet it has a near monopoly on internet where I am currently. The only alternative around here is Verizon Fios or whatever it's called.
Comcast has the most pathetic pricing. So called promotional price which last for 6 months and then double up everytime.
I am not sure why governments in US can allow companies to charge such a different amount to provide the same service in same area but to different people.
I practically know where their service support is located and many of my friends working for the firm.
I am just stunned to understand how they’re able to retain customers even with such high pricing.
@@tycoonruler6455 A lot of the older generations refuse to part with cable. I know many people in their 60s who pay $200+a month. Just to watch live sports of people kicking or throwing around balls. Yet they don't even use the tv otherwise. Other's watch MSM talking head propaganda. Yet they to don't even use the tv otherwise.
Attempt to explain to them how wasteful this is for spending. They don't care attempt to provide them alternatives via internet for less. They don't care either suffice to say. These ISP's often provide cable tv services as well. The older generations are funding them far more than younger ones.
3:46 Those Roger NFTs are going to the moon!
1:18 “drawing your own deviant fan art in the dirt with a stick” - oh, so you’ve seen my new NFT’s! 😃
Don’t you love when companies form fiefdoms like medieval royalty!?
Some providers even started to block certain websites! That is illegal but as long as people don‘t complain loud an publicly the internet providers will go on doing that and more. Good video!
Laws don't mean anything if there not enforced
And the real hell of it is, it's not even technically illegal!
Also, where are we going to complain if it does get too bad? Hmm.... the internet?
It depends on where you live, in Ukraine, a bunch of russian companies are sanctioned (because of the war) and NOT blocking their sites is illegal (you can use VPN, sites aren't banned, just their hosts blacklisted so they can't earn ad revenue in Ukraine).
@Koowluh Oh, they don't actually _care_ if you visit the sites through the use of a VPN, they still get your check. Just like how Netflix hasn't cracked down on any of the VPNs that allow you to spoof being in another country to get a different set of shows, which is so widespread now even this channel has advertised it. It's just plausible deniability on their part; when the angry mob of Karens marches up to their front door they want to be able to say they've 'done all they can.' It's not their fault, they're just a scapegoat!
@@KasumiRINA Yeah, you can also use Tor Browser or install a RaspberryPi with Unbound and have your own DNS-Server ...
Watching their animations made me doubt if my net was running fine 😂
This is my favorite one so far
You haven't even finished it yet!
1:49 was always surprised with the fact that internet in Belarus village could be much better than in middleclass USA household. Especially those upload speed limits that USA ISPs provide.
Ukraine here. We'd take slower internet if that removes russian tanks from our country. And we'd certainly NOT get better Belarusian internet while losing our sovereignty in the process like Lukashenko did.
@@KasumiRINA OTAN tanks are the problem, what they are doing there anyway, specially the USA, also the Russian military training in the frontier ended, stop believing in american lies
@@sergiowinter5383 The crazy thing is the Ukraine can invite whoever they want. Turns out that the Ukraine is their own damn country.
Russia sounds like a spoiled child. Russia punches someone, then when the person they punched raises their fist Russia goes "LOOK THEY ARE TRYING TO HIT ME! Now I can pull my gun since they are a threat". Pathetic.
@@sergiowinter5383 This comment aged like piss, and just goes to suggest your other comments are equally stupid.
So you're telling me the USA, the most developed country on earth, regularly drops to JARING dial-up mode in 2022? Meanwhile here in Singapore we currently have 800Mbps WiFi in my 4 bedroom apartment and we're considering upgrading to 1Gbps, while my phone gives me 18Mbps Unlimited mobile data.
Yeah some places here have trash infrastructure. I'm sitting at 1gig 8000gb a month wifi with 60-80mbps on my phone unlimited.
Unfortunately yes....
But we use all our advance technology for
*check notes*
warfare. You know, so we can bomb people and stuff because it was a sunny day.
High fives to all my fellow customers getting screwed by Cox~
I work for Cox, what secrets would you like to know? 😀
They only have to be better than CenturyLink (now Lumen). In my area, I’d take Cox over Lumen all day.
Yeah Lumen is 💩 and CONcast just keeps raising the bill
I have Cox it’s unfortunately the only option. Hate em
Twenty five years ago we were all told how the internet would free us.
I feel the opposite kind of happened. Without it your pretty much screwed nowadays.
@@SkygirlGamingChannel
Yes. No option so in a sense you're not free from it. And then a learn about hacking, censorship, tracking, etc. then suddenly you ain't feeling so free.
@@ianmackenzie686 I am luckly working in IT and therefor are well aware of those issues. Honestly though the effort to gain in minimizing these ricks is limited. At some point you ruin the user experience for avoiding these things as best as possible.
Password Managers, VPNS(for content unlock) etc are pretty much mandatory though.
This is too accurate, it hurts to laugh.
My ISP is so bad this took about 15 minutes to buffer on 144p lmao, doesn't help that I pay $180 a month for it as well.
Also, the part at 2:38 is very true, my county decided to mandate internet with a $3Mill bill to give at least cable and in some areas fiber, to every house within a year.
But because the local scam company everyone has would go out of business they tried suing the cable company for "Trying to run a monopoly" and now I wont get cable/fiber until 2030 at the earliest.
why the fuck is your internet as expensive as Alaska's and yet worse??? I still get 1080p
@@PriusRaj company oversold so it's about 3-4x over capacity of their servers and they refuse to fix it, while also selling new units to people
Your lawsuit portion doesn't make sense.
@@snap-off5383 Most of the lawsuit stuff is things I heard from the locals of my area over the past few years so it might be a bit exaggerated. So don't take it at 100% face value
Your country stuck in 2G? I got better connections over mobile internet decade ago here in Europe without data limits for like 20 euros max.
Astro-Roger making Easter egg appearances in these videos is something I didn't know I needed until now.
Jordan is the best nephew anyone could ask for.
My uncles are always saying that
@@cracked ROFL
" The parts my nephew colored with a marker...no one's checked to see if my nephew's telling the truth"😂😂WITH the "nephew" standing there in only socks! 😆 And the lagging...this video has not forgotten attention to detail. I love it. I am so glad cracked has kept doing more of this as its their more funnier content. 🐢🐢🐢Cara
I love owning a PS5 with useless arbitrary data caps. Not only did Horizon Forbidden West (great game btw) take forever to download, I also blew a 12th of my data cap.
I used to work for an isp (actually more then one just not at the same time) and oh boy the the problems I've seen and the total lack of care in them. One example does relate to those more far flung areas. The area would get oversold for the amount of bandwidth we got going to the area, so everyone there has slow speeds but they don't bother to update the system and bring in more bandwidth to the area no, they don't even try to convince people to reduce the speed packages they got to match what we can provide in the area. instead they just let the tech support department get constantly yelled at for a problem that we can do nothing about. while they collect the extra fees for a service they know they can't reliably provide in that area.
I've heard that Hortlink is planning to roll-out a high bandwidth service. It's based on smoke signal technology.
I sure do love having just 1 ISP to choose. Gotta love CenturyLink with the highest possible package being somewhere between 0 and 8 Mbps, depending on how the line feels that day. How is this even a free market when there is no competition happening?
CenturyLink is garbage. Sucks that's the only one you could choose
Me watching in 144p: ah yes everything looks fine here
"Feudal cyber realms", so brilliant and accurate at the same time XD
Choke an orphan in the street....🤣🤣🤣 YAY! Throttled speeds!
The internet service is hugely overpriced in Canada too, especially mobile internet. I couldn't believe that the service was better and 10x cheaper in my developing country than in Canada.
I have 1Gbps service, how fast is yours?
Same with the UK.
Next one, maybe VPN companies? Gotta love Rodger.
I could have sworn he did that one, but if not it’s gotta be coming up. The NFT episode isn’t even a month old yet and we already have this gem
3:03 “Maybe we’ll feel charitable one day, and run a HortLink line to a poor’s address” 💀💀
The very beginning was hilarious where it starts glitching and then he's like "Where were we"? Lmao, that's about how it really is when your connection gets crappy and you get back to what you were watching when it clears up.
We had a water leak in our street last week; the intrepid engineers dug out the water pipe - including the new fibre lines and cut the main electricity cable in half. If it wasn't so pathetic it would actually be funny.
I live in the middle of a pixelated small pox outbreak. Send fiber, STAT!
Somehow this went from being an honest ad to a "glitch horror" piece in mere seconds.
And stayed that way throughout the episode.
The NASA green screen lag at the end is PERFECT!!
The production value on this one!
We tried our hardest haha
@@cracked yeah, on a 1 MB dial-up connection 😆
This is exactly what Verizon is like LMAO. Their 5G speeds vary from amazing to slower than 4G, as well as the hotspot is always awful.
That bit of stop around 1:40 actually got me for a second there lol xD
My phone started buffering for ten seconds and they had convinced me it was part of the video before I realized I was really buffering. 😂
Laughing my ass off until I realized how true this was!
I work remote and moved to a house that I thought had internet. Well, it did (DSL), but CenturyLink cut off service the day after I moved in, saying that they were overprovisioned in the area. I was panicking, and requested a site survey from a wireless ISP, and had looked into all other options (besides satellite). I eventually found that I could use a MVNO, paying a $250 non-refundable "membership fee", and $250/mo for actual service. After three months, that wireless ISP finally contacted me to do a site survey, and I could hit a tower 6.5 miles away. I now pay $120/mo for 25/5 Mbps, but at least it's stable. I was lucky, since I live on the side of a mountain, but most people don't have this option, as they don't have line-of-sight. I hear of people complaining about the DSL service out here all the time, yet these customers aren't demanding refunds. The rest of the people have data capped cellular or satellite service.
I live in a rural area, where these stupid FCC maps show that internet service is available. I'm about 10 miles from the city (same zip code), and the only decent service I can get is through the wireless ISP. I signed up for Starlink almost 2 years ago and haven't heard back since. Now I'm looking to move to the coast, and I've already come across houses that don't have decent internet service, and don't specify this in the listing. If I'm not mistaken Washington had just made this mandatory for house listings, which would be nice.
A little backstory on this - I tried transferring CenturyLink into my name 3 weeks before I moved in. The previous owners said they had service, but CenturyLink kept on saying that they didn't service the address. Getting fed up, I got the previous owner on the phone with CenturyLink, she gave them her account number, and they confirmed that there was service, but they wouldn't transfer it into anyone else's name.
My wife's family lives in China. We go to visit every year or two. It is truly sad how good their internet is compared to ours in the USA. Even back in 2018 Her parents were paying $100 PER YEAR for digital TV and 100 MB internet. Several of our friends over there have 1 Gig service and pay about $20 per month. So most people, within the cities, could get far faster internet and pay, per YEAR, about what we pay per month.
Sounds wonderful, except for that pesky government censorship and surveillance damaging your social credit score....
He’s wrong on zip codes. They can claim a census block served if there’s a single eligible home. If a zip code were a single census block he would only be correct in that instance
The man can cook up a mean diatribe,and actually be compelling about his points. I feel like internet\phone service should be regarded as essential as power or water.
I love this guy
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Literally can never get enough Roger, keep it up guys!
"We may have ruined the lives and future earnings of millions." 😂😭😂😭😂
I like how Comcast's bargain basement cheapest service is $90 a month. Do you know how many illegal songs and movies I have to download a month to make up that difference?
😏 Trust me. They have cheaper internet but good god is it awful.
Home broadband
Should be free.
I don't ever think it will be.
@@brandonwombacher2559 it's not about whether it will be.
It's about how we're going to make it be.
I have no idea what is scarier. The truth of this entire video or Roger with the evil happy smile at the end, like geebus now THAT happy evil.
Where I live on the east coast you either get the choice between Verizon or Comcast a.k.a. Xfinity, and you bet your ass they are both working together behind the scenes to keep the prices high.
Imagine what Roger would do if he were president? The country will feel the wrath of his savageness. Roger is a national treasure.
Here's some Roger'd episode ideas:
Union Busting
America's healthcare system
Philanthropy
The Military Industrial Complex
How corporations use the excuse of inflation to increase prices
America's election system
Dont forget the two-party system
I agree with corporations raising prices because of inflation, just because printer money sucks they need to have a deficit? The scam is the government printer money steadily going down over time, obvious ponzi scheme
Another good idea for Roger to do would be Greenwashing by corporations.
Kneecap the fed gov?
are you serious?? The vested interests would whack Roger for doing just any one of these topics - even though I'd pay good money to see them.
Roger is the damn king of counter infomercials.
I love the nephew glitching non-stop and then just going at 200% speed suddenly
The suing is on point. Government owned provider tried to provide long distance backhaul, and somehow the biggest private telco sued them on the grounds "SOE not allowed to compete with private sector".
"Ha ha ha... accept my calls for further authoritarianism. I've been Roger, by the way."
I worked for multiple ISPs in the past. It's sad how true this is.
Two great performances from Sylvester and Roger. Well done.
Roger wearing the astronaut headgear will never not be funny to me lol
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As an employee of a major ISP I find this video absolutely amazing.🤣
Coming to this video shortly after my provider put a mystery $200 charge on my bill. You know, just to see if I was actually paying attention.
3:18 Oh shit, laughing so hard! 💀💀💀 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Genius. Genius fucking delivery and so true.
The irony of my connection buffering mid clip and thinking it was part of the video for a little longer than I should have.
I once heard that people in North Korea think that they are a first world nation, and I would laugh and say how do they not know ( I was a child then), now as a grown adult I'm starting to realize the US isn't a first world nation in many respects.
Hi i am European and i been laughing at your idealogy of freedom for minimum decade by now. Specially when i need read all stupid labels of products which are there because mostly of USA. Latest one was ethernet cable having extra label for customers in USA and Canada prohibiting installing that cable if outside has lightning storm.
Just the sight of buffering internet cased me a headache from episode start to end ..
Awesome video
"Suck on that Estonia!"
Estonia: ok send a pic first, bet you can't get it over here in under a year
Watching this from Estonia with my insane fast and cheap internet.
USA is so old when it comes to that. Maybe you'll get to our level in 20 years :).
I doubt it haha
@@cracked Haha :). Love you!
@@cracked Haha :).Love you!
USA is so old when it comes to many things, my friend! "Land of the free* and home of the brave**!"
*unecessary expensive prices
**corrupt
@@amber619pop Land of the fleeced and home of the slave.
Funny timing, sort of. My internet has been screwing up on and off for the past hour. When this video was intentionally freezing I thought that's what was going on.
This pissed me off a lot. Well done, Roger. The accuracy is incredible.
I thought my internet was acting up a few seconds into the video 😂
up to a year ago i basically had no internet service. now we have fiber and its unbelievably fast now. i missed out on alot not having internet service in my teens
*Up
*ago, I
*Now
*it's (contraction of "it is" or "it has")
its = possessive
*a lot
Two words, not one. Think of it like this: a few, a little, a bunch, a _whole_ bunch, a lot, a _whole_ lot.
*teens.
Shout out to my fellow Arkansas made of meat, Jeff! Woo Pig Sooie! Hahaha! Thanks Roger!
Meat people!
Literally this video goes up the day we just got out WiFi back when it randomly went down and went back up
I got an ISP ad on this video, truly the best place to advertise your product
The problem with regulations is that the companies being regulated have their people on the boards of regulators. Like for instance big oil or pharmaceutical companies. Your government is not going to help you because they are unsurprisingly easy to pay off. Politicians are not paragons of virtue, they are crooks. These videos are good at identifying problems, but not so much practical solutions. Ultimately the call for regulations will result in more companies regulating themselves and then they will pretend they are doing something about it when in actuality they screw us over more but make it seem like they turned over a new leaf. They might even engage in "philanthropy" where they say they are giving away their money but instead they put it in a slush fund like Bill Gates.
"Second Thought" is a mind opening channel if you are interested.