The tech guy for the internet was all set to stop by this morning as I was getting done eating breakfast.. He calls we let the butler get it.. the answering machine and so when he calls back I tell him the internet speed is fine, it was showing 9Mbps. but could he come by around 4 this afternoon.. He said he had other things to do elsewhere and he would try to get back by about four.. I said between the hours of four and seven but really it could also be until eleven as well.. Why did I send him away, could he have been able to tell there was an issue with anything before that?? He stopped by before when the internet was fine, I was having issues with it but on this day I thought yeah, it looks fine but since I was having trouble he would be able to see there was an issue.. Big mistake, he looked at it and said everything was fine.. I then thought if I can get him to come by when it sucks then maybe he will find an issue.. What I could see happening was him coming by and like a few minutes ago the internet was showing 11Mbps. before he called the second time.. After he called I tested again, was 14Mbps... Then just before I started this entry I ran another test and it was worse but not a big deal, it was at just over 5Mbps, which he would have said well that is what you are paying for.. So hopefully by 4 he will run a test and it will be back to the under 1Mbps I tested out for the past three or four months.. But I'm willing to bet it will be fine.. If that happens I will step it back and just go with the 1Mbps.. Why argue?? It is fine.. I will just assume that the streaming device was never meant to be used here as I suspected all along.. Our internet was never meant to support such technology.. Who knows, I always look to the negative.. We don't win EVER..
Badge Henry
(P.S. .. about thirty or so minutes until the tech hits here.. The internet speed tested just a second ago and it was at 9Mbps... I will likely turn him away, the internet is fine.. There is a word that comes to mind when this happens... Oh.. Did you power cycle the modem?? Yep, I do that daily.. Your computer is old.. Yep, guess that means buy a new one.. Oh wait sir.. My roku acts like it is starving for signal (internet). how old is it?? Three or four years old.. Yep that's old, get a new one.. Alright I guess that's good, oh wait.. Same thing happens to my moms computer and yes it is old too, almost a WHOLE FUCKING YEAR OLD.. Better give the internet a look see then, because I'm pretty sure if you fix the modem, EVERYTHING WILL WORK RIGHT... But I don't know, I could be wrong.....)
Clock strikes four and like clockwork the internet turns to shit.. Almost on the second.. Ping 230 and 2.74Mbps ... Hope he shows but I bet he won't..
(Final post script.. When all was said and done yesterday the guy was set to try to come after four but was a no show no call situation, which tells me two things.. 1 he knows exactly when and why the internet turns to shit and there is nothing he can do about it and 2 they are hoping we will leave not only their internet but the cable and the phone.. I highly doubt there are that many people on any of their services here in town.. I am looking for houses that DON'T have a dish of some sort on them, the people next door have two dishes now and there are more getting those little white dish antenna on them, which I assume is for internet service.. In all honesty the guy was all set to come yesterday morning but he was only going to check our internet speed which I told him if he is dead set to come at that time that the internet was quite good, and usually is in the morning.. It goes like this, at 8 ish when I first get on the internet is really good, around noon still good but not great.. Four in the afternoon, almost to the second the internet goes from double digit on the speed test to under five and gets slower as the evening progresses, so that by prime time, around 7 ish, it tests out at or just under 1Mbps.. And stays shitty until about 11 when it gets better.. By two in the morning it tests really good and this morning at about three it tests out at the best I have ever seen at seventy over six test which averages out to just over 7Mbps.. So I guess I have to adjust my viewing times and I think that is what I will have to do this summer.. )
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