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T-Mobile illegally imposed 50GB cap on low-income home Internet plan, NY says: Law requires 25Mbps home Internet. T-Mobile lowers speed to 600Kbps after 50GB cap. (arstechnica.com)
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[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Thanks for agreeing it would be a useful estimate to include for informational purposes. It is not as if each customer is rolling their own file transfer protocols; they are fairly standard.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I absolutely do not agree with you at all on how useful it is, and I don’t think the usefulness it does have is worth the inaccuracy and confusion you introduce by adding it. If you ran your own ISP, it wouldn’t be the end of the world if you did, but the ISPs today that omit it are absolutely right to. And advertising their services based on it as users are suggesting here would be completely inappropriate and misleading.

And file transfer protocols are anything but standard. They deviate drastically from one to the next. That’s a big part of why it’s not a very useful estimate.