Octopus Overlords

Max Peck wrote: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?!?

RunningMn9 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 27, 2023 8:24 pm

Max Peck wrote: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.

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.

Thought Id bring back these classics.

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.

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.

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.

RMC wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 8:45 am 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.

Probably feels like 1 TB to him. Leave him be

Daehawk wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 9:27 am Probably feels like 1 TB to him. Leave him be

Lol, Typo.
Yes, GB

RMC wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 10:12 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 9:27 am 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.

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

Daehawk wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 1:19 pm EPB near me but NOT me nab dabbit has 25Gb on offer.

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

only $1500/mo