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My HOA bundles an Internet plan directly into their fees, giving me absolutely zero choice whatsoever. It’s exorbitantly priced too at $100 a month. It’s getting more popular to do this in my state because it blocks you from even using wireless carriers like for Verizon for your service. They take the money even if you don’t set up the service.
Fuck you commissioner and fuck everything you represent.
There is a condo they just finished making in my state. They stated your Internet is priced into the HOA fee - and there was absolutely no wired Ethernet; only wireless. It was $3,000/month for 850 sq ft + $500/month HOA fee.
yeah, this sounds about right. it's predatory af and also the ISPs are usually pretty shit too. Most of these providers charge absolutely insane rates compared to their costs (because they can), and the people paying the ISPs aren't the tenants - it's the HOA or owners, and they don't care that the users are being overcharged, so it just goes on and on.
They often have preferential access to wiring, rack, and roof space, as well as fiber runs, they actively keep other ISPs out of the building.
source: network engineer for an ISP, and deal with these antics daily.
This is a massive reason I completely avoid HOAs. I don't want some busybodies deciding what I can and can't do with my property, and I'm okay with my neighborhood being less uniform as a result.
Some areas can be a lot worse than "less uniform".
The Redneck doing oil changes in his front yard is fully within his rights. Mind your own business.
That's also not what I'm referring to. I work in real estate so I've seen it all:
With the sole exception of the rodent infestation all of this falls under mind your own business. It ain't your land stop thine bitching.
The rodent infestation is a result of the other factors and general lack of cleanliness. Sure seems like my business.
If things do get so bad that there is an active health and safety issue then contact the city or county.
They don't care. The people who live in the community do.
sounds like a perfect setup for a torrent farm. they can't stop you because you're forced to pay for it.
do it. get a good VPN and do it. I know how these networks are usually architected - they probably will never notice. use as much bandwidth as you can over a VPN and they'll probably never really see it. also there's likely no bandwidth cap, since the fiber circuits that feed these units are also usually uncapped in terms of how much data they can pass per billing period, unlike Spectrum/Comcast/VZ/all the other shit ISPs out there.
I know I don't notice a heavy user when I look at my metrics and even if I did, I don't get paid to care. just don't get caught with your VPN off, they probably will see that and disable your service or give you a call and tell you you're being a bad user a la Skippy.
highly recommend using containerized torrents through a VPN.
I have transmission and openvpn containers. when the network goes down transmission can't connect since it's networked through the ovpn container.
once the vpn is restored, everything restarts and resumes where it left off.
ever since I've had this setup running, I haven't had a nastygram sent to me.
Is it a covenant?
get a lawyer and see if you can exit the hoa agreement because of some caveats