World internet speeds

[RunningMn9]

I'm old enough to remember when you had to specify the number of bits in your bytes, because it wasn't a given that there'd be 8 of them.

Wat? How old are you?!?

[Max Peck]

I'm old enough to remember when you had to specify the number of bits in your bytes, because it wasn't a given that there'd be 8 of them.

Wat? How old are you?!?

Old enough to have dealt with the repercussions of legacy hardware from the days before engineers settled on standard byte/word sizes.

[Isgrimnur]

Spectrum rolled out a frequency shift, the vendor botched some of it, and my surge protector didn’t like the new frequency band, so was severely limiting throughput.

Problem resolved for now.

[Daehawk]

Thought Id bring back these classics.

[Daehawk]

Both my car ins and internet jumped up this month. Not huge but every little bit adds up for me. It went up nearly $20. I called but theres no promotions for me. So I told them to drop my speed from 600 to 300 and save $10. Bah. They said check back there might be a deal next month ya never know. In fact its usually raise my speed back up and save more than this lol. Stupid system.

[Daehawk]

I lucked out tonight. Im really drunk. Im slurring my words even. But I call Charter Spectrum not hoping for much. Talk to one girl in billing who trans me over to god knows where,,,and I meet a beer guy. Lol. He brews his own even. he suggests Bison beer by Longcreek.....which I will try. He give me a discount which lowers my price to $19 frickin dollars wooo...but I apply speed to my pipe....500 down...half a gig ....$34 a month..I take it for 12 months and leave. I am happy..... an d dizzy.



Just like that..phone call and lowered my bill by $20 an raised my speed by 200 megabytes per second.

[RMC]

I live in the country and have done every type of internet, and was even on the waiting list for Elon's Satalite service. Then 5G came into the area, and I was getting fairly good speeds. However, a few weeks ago I get a call that they ran Fiber past my house, and would I like to switch?

So I laugh, and say, are you sure you can hook my house up, it happens all the time that they somehow get it wrong. But nope, Fiber is here, so I am getting almost 1 TB down, and 750 MB up. Price is higher, but the speeds are the best I have ever had. So very happy.

[Montag]

I live in the country and have done every type of internet, and was even on the waiting list for Elon's Satalite service. Then 5G came into the area, and I was getting fairly good speeds. However, a few weeks ago I get a call that they ran Fiber past my house, and would I like to switch?

So I laugh, and say, are you sure you can hook my house up, it happens all the time that they somehow get it wrong. But nope, Fiber is here, so I am getting almost 1 TB down, and 750 MB up. Price is higher, but the speeds are the best I have ever had. So very happy.

Um, I am assuming GB down as opposed to the 1000 times faster TB down.

[Daehawk]

Probably feels like 1 TB to him. Leave him be

[RMC]

Probably feels like 1 TB to him. Leave him be

Lol, Typo.
Yes, GB

[coopasonic]

Probably feels like 1 TB to him. Leave him be

Lol, Typo.
Yes, GB

I'm going to push even further and suggest it's Gb vs the 8x faster GB. Xfinity has 6Gb but as far as I am aware, nobody offers GB for home internet in the US.

Yes, I am being pedantic.

[Daehawk]

EPB near me but NOT me nab dabbit has 25Gb on offer.

[coopasonic]

EPB near me but NOT me nab dabbit has 25Gb on offer.

https://epb.com/fi-speed-internet/?#choose-your-plan

only $1500/mo