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Bearcat 09-18-2023 05:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Chief Pagan (Post 17117920)
It's better now, but there was a several year period during the covid work from home peak when Comcast internet in my area would routinely go out.

Like it was happening weekly. But there wasn't/isn't a viable alternative for broadband in my area. Don't you just love the free market monopoly?

Having no competition, they didn't have much incentive to fix their shit. At&t nominally provided broadband, but it was worse.

When it did go down, the cellular phone network got overwhelmed with traffic and became completely useless.
Same issue with Sparklight... I even knew a couple who moved from a different part of town into the same neighborhood and said it went to shit. I was calling them 3 times/week at one point, even for small 5 minute outages, much less the half-day shit.

I went with TMobile Home Internet for a bit, but found out it was actually worse, and had to crawl back to Sparklight. :#

scho63 09-18-2023 05:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Balto (Post 17117971)
Mmmm Sticky Fingers Pizza!!!
Had The Jess. :D

displacedinMN 09-18-2023 05:55 PM
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Originally Posted by scho63 (Post 17117934)
The problem is Cox, something you know, love and speak of often.
No one speaks of their internet provider with high regards

scho63 09-18-2023 06:04 PM
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Originally Posted by displacedinMN (Post 17118062)
No one speaks of their internet provider with high regards
No but Jewish Rabbi loves Cox. All shapes, sizes, cut and colors.

Skyy God 09-18-2023 06:04 PM
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Originally Posted by displacedinMN (Post 17118062)
No one speaks of their internet provider with high regards
BrightSpeed is the tits.

Bearcat 09-18-2023 06:11 PM
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Originally Posted by displacedinMN (Post 17118062)
No one speaks of their internet provider with high regards
They probably do in the 10+ countries with faster and more reliable internet than the US.

Skyy God 09-18-2023 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Bearcat (Post 17118080)
They probably do in the 10+ countries with faster and more reliable internet than the US.
‘Merica!!!

|Zach| 09-18-2023 06:54 PM
I have had Google Fiber since they established themselves here years ago and have had years of good service and good interactions when I needed their customer service.

Jewish Rabbi 09-18-2023 07:13 PM
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Originally Posted by scho63 (Post 17118070)
No but Jewish Rabbi loves Cox. All shapes, sizes, cut and colors.
I have Fiber since I don’t live in a poor neighborhood

tyecopeland 09-18-2023 07:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Jewish Rabbi (Post 17117714)
Don’t you have 30 years of IT experience? Shouldn’t you be able to troubleshoot your own internet?
He's probably been on the phone with them all day trying to explain what an icon is.

Chief Pagan 09-18-2023 10:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Jewish Rabbi (Post 17118210)
I have Fiber since I don’t live in a poor neighborhood
There isn't a house in my neighborhood under $500,000 (probably not one less $600K+, I haven't checked in a while) and the only option [discounting satellite, etc] is Comcast. Customer service sucks. The price sucks. And for several years the internet service itself used to go out on a near weekly basis.

kcfan75 09-19-2023 06:52 AM
In the Summer, I take my sons to the gym, pool, trampoline park, etc. and just work from there. Modern day phone hot spots are fast enough to get the basic's done.

I'm a software engineer so I wouldn't be doing much developing over it.

scho63 09-19-2023 10:26 AM
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Originally Posted by PunkinDrublic (Post 17117677)
How much is it to get into a good co-working space?
$17 an hour for a day office where we have our virtual office. Heading there now as Cox is still down.

Otter 09-19-2023 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by displacedinMN (Post 17118062)
No one speaks of their internet provider with high regards
As long as everything is working fine they're great but when something goes wrong their support is atrocious. And when I say "atrocious" I'm being nice.

Fish 09-19-2023 12:58 PM
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Originally Posted by displacedinMN (Post 17118062)
No one speaks of their internet provider with high regards
I have Google Fiber, and it's ****ing incredible. Speeds are great. Super reliable. I hope I never have to deal with any other ISP ever again.


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