"fhrblig" (fhrblig)
09/15/2020 at 19:20 • Filed to: Thank god we finally have good internets
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"fhrblig" (fhrblig)
09/15/2020 at 19:20 • Filed to: Thank god we finally have good internets | 5
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I think this was a worthwhile upgrade. Also, now I don’t have to deal with an antenna trying to pull in channels, and I have ESPN so I can actually watch Monday Night Football if I want to.
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> fhrblig
09/15/2020 at 19:25 |
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Not bad!
lone_liberal
> fhrblig
09/15/2020 at 19:31 |
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Welcome to the dark side. Comcast sucks as a company but sometimes it’s the best solution.
MiniGTI - now with XJ6
> lone_liberal
09/15/2020 at 19:33 |
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Yep. Evil but my internet is much better since I ditched ATT.
Jb boin
> fhrblig
09/15/2020 at 19:39 |
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404 :(
facw
> fhrblig
09/15/2020 at 19:43 |
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Sorry but I’m still quite happy about this (upload is a bit slow tonight though) :
No cable for me though. I do have ESPN set up to run off my parents’ account if I ever need that.
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fhrblig
> lone_liberal
09/15/2020 at 19:50 |
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All they have to do is suck slightly less than CenturyLink and I’ll be able to live with it.
The install took 5 hours. Why? Turns out our condo had never been wired for cable.
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fhrblig
> Jb boin
09/15/2020 at 19:52 |
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I could use those upload speeds right about now. I’m uploading a bunch of pics I use for work from my phone to a cloud file so I can finally replace my phone sometime soon.
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fhrblig
> facw
09/15/2020 at 19:55 |
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I could have paid for more but really, we don’t need it. We just need enough that the both of us can stream without buffering.
I got tired of fighting with the antenna just to watch football every week. If we could get a reliable signal I wouldn’t have bothered. We have a whole ton of channels that we will probably never watch, but it was a good enough value.
PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120
> fhrblig
09/15/2020 at 19:57 |
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Not bad speeds , costing you about $90/mo for interwebs and TV? Also, i s Comcast still doing bandwidth caps? I remember when I lived in CO 6ish years back , they had us at 250GB/mo.
Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> facw
09/15/2020 at 20:05 |
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Crazy. My up is only 10mbps, but the down is around the same (when it’s not too congested) . No option for more and no fiber available, though.
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Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> fhrblig
09/15/2020 at 20:11 |
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From my phone, so limited by Wi-Fi and my phone:
Amoore100
> fhrblig
09/15/2020 at 20:15 |
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CenturyLink is actually disgustingly, bibl ically awful. My roommates and I had it until halfway through quarantine when I tried to upload a 6 min video and it took an hour and a half. Checked later and we were getting 2 Mbps down, 0.07 Mbps up. Switched to Cox the next week.
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fhrblig
> PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120
09/15/2020 at 20:21 |
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I don’t know if they are or not, but we’re not likely to touch that anyway.
CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
> fhrblig
09/15/2020 at 20:32 |
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They screwed you on pings, you’re getting like 50% of the ones you got before
/s
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> fhrblig
09/15/2020 at 20:43 |
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That first one tethered to your cell phone? DSL?
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fhrblig
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
09/15/2020 at 21:12 |
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DSL. That was my desktop.
CaptDale - is secretly British
> fhrblig
09/15/2020 at 21:45 |
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JFC. I was upset we went from 1000 gb/1000 gb down to 500/25.
I could not imaging less than 10 with all the streaming and gaming we do.
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> fhrblig
09/15/2020 at 22:53 |
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The dreaded twisted pair...
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> fhrblig
09/15/2020 at 22:54 |
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And to think that there was a time when we could get excited about 1.5 megabits.
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fhrblig
> CaptDale - is secretly British
09/15/2020 at 23:45 |
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You know what video game I play most? I have a nearly 20-year-old copy of The Next Tetris for Playstation (note the lack of a number after that) that I play on our old PS3. That’s it. I really don’t like any of the modern games that much and while my husband likes them, he never plays them online. I guess we’re weird that way.
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fhrblig
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
09/15/2020 at 23:49 |
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Sheeeit. I remember when I first got an internet-capable computer in ‘99 and had dial-up. Back then I had a two-year-old laptop that was some sort of top of the line Compaq. I bought it used from a coworker and chances are it was probably stolen, seeing how he was a massive cokehead and a bit of a hacker.
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> fhrblig
09/16/2020 at 01:01 |
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56k modem...
pip bip - choose Corrour
> fhrblig
09/16/2020 at 03:56 |
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CaptDale - is secretly British
> fhrblig
09/16/2020 at 10:53 |
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Happens, not everyone plays online. My boyfriend and I game with friends online a lot so when we are in the same house we use a lot of the internet and then you’ve got phones always on the wifi and maybe others streaming a show in the other room, so we use a lot of internet. We both are also both in college right now so we have remote learning video classes most days with my mother teaching remotely as well. So yeah we have the demand for high speeds and wide bandwidth.
He taught me how to make CAT5/6 cable so I bought a reel and have been hardwiring everything I can, it has helped a lot.
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fhrblig
> CaptDale - is secretly British
09/16/2020 at 22:28 |
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That’ll definitely soak up the bandwidth for sure.
We’ve had this terrible internet for twelve years. I’ve been lobbying to switch for about that long. Fighting with the TV antenna was the bane of my existence. I’d be watching a game and have no signal problems for nearly the whole game, only to have it start to go out in the fourth quarter. So annoying. Plus there’s a lot of decent digital sub-channels we haven’t been able to reliably get either, and now we can see them all. Comet is one of them. They love to show bad sci-fi and horror movies. They also love to rerun that Hercules movie with Lou Ferrigno, and I love to watch it.
Grindintosecond
> fhrblig
09/20/2020 at 11:26 |
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A note on these speeds. My bro in law is all about maintaining his bandwidth. He found that his router was slowing things after a firmware update. He backdated it and it was faster again. But I’m sure he’s more susceptible to malware now, which is what the update was for.
So just keep an eye on the routers self updating things if your speeds down a bit
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fhrblig
> Grindintosecond
09/20/2020 at 11:42 |
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Yep, we had to do that a lot with the CenturyLink service. It would mess up a lot.