We got this card in the mail back in... March I think.. And for five dollars we could increase to five MBPS.. WOW.. I say wow... And so finally yesterday after a Saturday of the worst internet we have had in .. quite a while.. I decided either we increase the internet speed or ditch Netflix and the roku likely.. Netflix has the best delivery of any of the channels on the roku except for Weather Underground and the I-tunes app as well as any radio app... Everything else is crap when there is someone else putting such a demand on the internet.. But this is just the weekend that he is here, in just a little less than a month he will likely be here almost all summer.. I don't mind him watching his mindcraft videos over and over during the day, it's when he watches at night and into the very wee hours of the early morning that I think is obsessive (not that watching the same ten videos doesn't count as obsessive), just that watching those videos into prime time and it makes the movie buffer.. I have Netflix set at the very lowest setting, I don't have a HD tv and so I don't care as long as the video isn't pixellated or turning to mush.. So I call our ISP up yesterday and say yeah I got this card a while back can we try to upgrade. She says no problem and so after all is said and done I ask if the guy has to come by and give us a new modem.. Nope, they just have to push a few buttons and everything should be set by tonight.. as I'm getting ready to hang up she says, "if this doesn't clear it up call us back and we'll try 10meg.. Oh you think so.. She doesn't know me, I won't go up to ten, I will go back to 1 and adjust the computer to be off line during the evening hours.. That was yesterday.. So I run a speed test before I get off the computer last evening and it shows exactly what it did the last night I tried it.. Ok, maybe when she said we will have it by tonight she meant before midnight. So the roku has a speed test app to check internet speed and I test it three times last night and well.. There is no change.. Should I call to see if it got changed?? I thought of that but then I thought lets see how it looks this weekend when the Youtube kid is on it.. if it acts the same as it did last weekend I will call them and find out when we will get switched and if she says you all is already switched I'm gonna come unglued a bit.. Tell her the scam of upgrading isn't going to work with me.. They have one, five, ten and twenty megs modems. Now a few years ago I called their internet help desk to ask about how much the speed test should say, and he says a one megs modem will get us 1Mbps reading.. Really?? There are times I get 30Mbps (very rare) but most of the time I get around three on average.. At peak with the youtube kid on I get under one... Or slightly faster than dial up.. well with that logic of one megs modem getting us one then five should yield us, oh I don't know .. FIVE Mbps.. So when does this start I wonder.. It won't.. Remember as I was about to hangup and she says if that doesn't clear it up we'll try ten.. No.. No we won't we'll see what that does.. Hey five bucks is five bucks, you want to cheat me try playing me in Monopoly, I call your bluff there too..
Badge Henry
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