The war.. is over.. Or I think it is.. Pretty much it is over and I decided that today when I woke up trying to think if it is worth fighting for.. This is of course the internet and the inability to get the 5megs modem to deliver the goods.. At 1meg, we were getting internet fine until about 4 in the afternoon, if you have read the saga about the internet then you know.. Alright and if you don't know, go in search of the previous entries on the internet saga, there are five or six dozen of these.. But ... When we got the 5megs it was to stop the buffering that was getting to be the case with my roku and mom watching her program any time after four in the afternoon.. I had set my Netflix to the lowest setting three months after getting the Roku and that prevented the most of the buffering issues up until last August when it would buffer regularly.. Yes my nephew was watching youtube regularly (read 14 or more hours a day) but I felt like there was no big deal, school was just a week or so away and I can live with starting a show and then pushing pause and waiting an extra minute to get the buffering to get the show loaded enough to where it wouldn't buffer during the show.. That is extremely annoying especially when I set it to be the lowest setting to prevent this issue and it seemed to be working.. There was another idea to try to see if there is a setting on the router to give mt roku more bandwidth.. I never found it but it might be there.. This past Monday night we got nailed by a nasty storm.. (see my last entry for the review on that bit of fun) and our power had gone out and so I thought it might have effected the internet.. Well Tuesday it wasn't that different but here is a little tid bit.. Monday I upgraded my computer to windows 10, and since it went without a hitch I decided to do my moms laptop, so yesterday I started doing the upgrade.. Started at 8:39 in the morning.. Why is it important to tell you exactly what time I started the upgrade process?? Because the one thing I did Monday for mine, I checked the internet speed, I thought it was important to have the best speed which is in the morning, when I did mine Monday.. I didn't check the speed for moms upgrade.. Why?? Two simple words.. I FORGOT.. And so when it started the upgrade it was going relatively slow but then I thought it could be because she might have malware or a virus even though I constantly scan the computer regularly.. An hour passed.. I figured it might take a full hour, mine took a little over an hour.. Then two hours passed.. Three hours passed and I was wondering why is it taking so long.. It would end up taking five and a half hours.. 5 1/2... Actually closer to six hours... Whew.. That some time computer fairies there.. Why was it that bad?? Our internet was a speeding whopping speed on just under 500kbps... That is five hundred kilo bites.. Not mego bites.. Kilo bites.. Dial up would have gone faster.. I apologized to mom. And the nephew who was showing us all a new dace move he learned the last time he had to go to the bathroom and couldn't find one..
They stopped by today after I left a message on their Facebook last night.. Being vulgar is not a smart thing to do, there are better words to use besides the obvious potty mouth ones.. It seems when I said I wasn't mad at them but rather at myself and disappointed in myself for trying this idea.. That might have gotten them to wake up.. Blame yourself... the tact worked.. Our internet is just over 5megs.. But it is still early.. They have run it through a modem but the wires are from the phone.. Not dial up.. Strange.. It might be that way for good.. But I doubt it.. Like I told mom, I almost told them not to bother, we likely will be on something else in June.. But we'll see.. Hope it isn't pay per view..
Badge Henry
(P.S. The War is over.. I swore no matter the outcome of their efforts yesterday that I would live with whatever they could get.. They said as they were leaving this will never test much higher than 6Mbps and just now I ran the speed test and it was 6.64.. That is fine, however he also said it should never go down below 4Mbps.. Last night it did test at just over 1Mbps... Blame it on the weather I guess.. When they set up this new system and were going through what they were I kept thinking, I wonder how much this really is going to cost.. The guy said nothing, but I still wonder.. I also thought is they knew how close we are to getting out of not only their internet but cable tv and the phone service, would they be doing this.. We were two weeks away from having digital satellite (dish or directv) in here, was looking at a different internet system and going completely cell phone exclusively... Last night before shutting the computer off for the night I checked the new modem, they had it on top of the router which itself sounds like a no no, and this thing was hot to the touch.. I then went up and grabbed my multimeter and set it to the thermal coupling and checked the temperature of this new box.. it was running at 120 degrees F... yikes that is warm.. And on top of the router?? That was not a good idea at all.. I moved it.. If they bitch about it I'll tell them I was afraid it might ruin the router or affect the performance of both the modem and the router.. )
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