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I work from home. Similarly, I can pull down 1TB without thinking. I was nearly out of a job when the cable company unilaterally "altered the deal" and put a cap on my home connection, which had been uncapped for close to 15 years. They said I couldn't get business service at my residential address, and that I should just stick with them because "everybody has a cap now".I upload and download between 20GB and 200GB a day for work. That's not to mention what I do for leisure. I work on very tight deadlines. I would have to pay for uncapped / "fast lane" access, reducing my net even more. Not only does repealing net neutrality disadvantage "the little guys" in terms of the telecom giants having all the power over the airwaves and infrastructure, but it also attempts to smolder out small businesses, from tiny ops like my own to start-ups.
I called the city council.
The council called the cable company.
The cable company called me, apologized, and made me a business account.
It's $100 a month instead of $60 for a third the speed.
(EDIT: I know this is a separate issue from neutrality - but it illustrates how totally fucked we are by the whim of the cable company.)
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