Another post script on the internet speed debacle

On the DTC Facebook page they have a proud advert about having new high speed internet shit and my comment was "No you don't.. If you do we got ours switched to a five megs modem, when does this start exactly?"  And I got a IM response earlier today.. After talking to the person and showing the speed I get the person said that isn't right.. I thought well... no shit..  So they will send a techie to look at it Monday ish..  Yep, eventually they will check it.. Or maybe not, I have no idea, but they will either check it or we will go back to what we had (have) and that will be alright.. Internet management skills 101, don't trust the ISP any further than you can throw them.. Instead go on a forum and talk to them about it.. By the way at the end of the forum post, I said why do I feel like I'm being screwed??  And after I got the reply to check router settings someone later said after doing the settings it is quite likely I am still being screwed because with all the settings to the router being done that likely was the fix, not more megs... I was going to reply to that yeah, I had that feeling when the speed test showed what it did.. Turns out that might have been the fix, we still don't have the 5megs...


Badge Henry

(P.S. again.. Ok, when I first turned on the computer that Thursday I thought, yep that is five megs no doubt about it.. Then as the day progressed I thought it was running a little like it had been, there was no change.. Naw, it's my imagination, this is five megs, it won't be a lot faster than what we had with the 1megs modem.. Then that night as I'm watching a show of Netflix on the roku my worst fears were realized, as the show stopped to buffer I thought here we are, paying more money for the internet to be exactly the same as it always was.. WTF.. So by the next day I run speed test almost hourly, and during those hours that it normally is great it was the same, then four in the afternoon hits and almost to the minute the internet goes from double figure Mbps to half that and gradually over the next two hours it goes down proportionally to what I think would be the number of people getting on line.. But here's the thing.. There are very few people who have the internet here in town.. There are more people using other things to access the internet.. We are the very few, and I mean seriously few that get cable tv from them, and that translates into about the same number who get internet from them..  My number estimate on how many get internet would be around maybe ten.. And that is a stretch, the number of houses without a dish type of satelitte tv system is five.. i think there arefive houses that don't have a dish of some sort..   So what does this mean??  i'm thinking they would like everyone to be off everything so they could stop worrying about it.. Why does the internet slow down that bad if nobody is actually on it??  Simple, a throttling program that all internet providers use.. Like I said at four in the afternoon almost to the minute, the internet colapses, stops almost stops..  Why do they do that??  Because they can... )