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Hircus
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2020 Sep 28, 3:21pm
Hircus
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2020 Sep 28, 3:21pm
I always try to use Ethernet cable. Better speeds, rock solid reliable, secure, trustworthy.
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SunnyvaleCA
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2020 Sep 28, 4:33pm
You use the Comcast WiFi hardware? Ugh. Are you paying a $5/month rental fee for it when a basic router that you own and control fully is $60 and will last for 10 years?
Mine is already 10+ years old. It's "only" N speed — i.e.: 20x faster than the modem connection to Comcast. It also has 4 ethernet ports for all the devices that are close.
There's little point in having the latest and greatest wifi speed if you're not doing file transfers between two computers on that same wifi network.
Mine is already 10+ years old. It's "only" N speed — i.e.: 20x faster than the modem connection to Comcast. It also has 4 ethernet ports for all the devices that are close.
There's little point in having the latest and greatest wifi speed if you're not doing file transfers between two computers on that same wifi network.
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Tenpoundbass
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2020 Sep 28, 4:37pm
Tenpoundbass
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2020 Sep 28, 4:37pm
No I bought my own wifi cable router. The monthly charge is going up. Comcast used to treat their internet business as incidental. The bulk of their business was cable subscriptions. So many people cutting the cord now, Comcast is going to start being pesky bill whore like AT&T has become, after everyone dropped home phone service, then they started squeezing and shaking down their customers.
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EBGuy
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2020 Sep 28, 4:44pm
My kid's Zoom (school and gaming) room recently moved away from where the router is located. Replaced his his direct gigabit ethernet connection with some "vintage" 100Mbit Netgear Powerline ethernet boxes. Latency is not bad (picked up a couple of msec per speedtest ping) and he hasn't complained yet. Plug and play.
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Shaman
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2020 Sep 28, 5:01pm
Shaman
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2020 Sep 28, 5:01pm
Just remember:
Orange, Orange-White, green-white, blue, blue-white, green, brown-white, brown!
Titty down.
Orange, Orange-White, green-white, blue, blue-white, green, brown-white, brown!
Titty down.
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SunnyvaleCA
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2020 Sep 28, 5:08pm
In my part of Sunnyvale, it's Comcast or nothing. No DSL or no fiber/FIOS. It really hurts those kind of price negotiations. Fortunately I get a flat-rate internet-only deal through work.
A decade ago before I switched to that the poor guy on the other end of the sales office was having the hardest time trying to throw in other "stuff" for the $89/month connection instead of just giving me a lower price. You get faster internet speeds ... nope, 25 mb/s is plenty. You get 10 free email address ... nope, I already have 2 through other sources. Online storage ... nope, I have my own backup solutions. Free land line ... I don't even have a land-line phone. Oh well.
I guess the next thing people start cutting is "phone" service. Skype, Zoom, instant messaging, and email are good enough for me. I'm already sending all calls of people who aren't in my address book directly to voice mail.
A decade ago before I switched to that the poor guy on the other end of the sales office was having the hardest time trying to throw in other "stuff" for the $89/month connection instead of just giving me a lower price. You get faster internet speeds ... nope, 25 mb/s is plenty. You get 10 free email address ... nope, I already have 2 through other sources. Online storage ... nope, I have my own backup solutions. Free land line ... I don't even have a land-line phone. Oh well.
I guess the next thing people start cutting is "phone" service. Skype, Zoom, instant messaging, and email are good enough for me. I'm already sending all calls of people who aren't in my address book directly to voice mail.
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I expected terrible WiFi more than 50 feet from the back of the house and about 90 feet from the actual router. But the wifi connection has been fine. Until last week when Comcast called my wife, and said the deal we negotiated 2 years was expired and they were going to double the price for internet. I told them to go get bent, I don't play that game, I'll find another provider then hung up. The lady called my wife back and they negotiated the original price. But since then my wifi out back has been spotty and all videos stagger and remote work and zoom meetings have been dismal.
So today, I finally broke down and tried to pull the 100ft premade cat5 network cable, but it came up short, I needed about 110' not 100'. So I pulled it back out and went to Home Depot, and bought 150' of cable, a pair of crimpers, and some RJ45 connectors. Then still ended up having to go back to buy a concrete drill bit so I could run it through to the house where the router is.
I really should have done this last year, this is much better than even my best connection with the WiFi.
On a side note, I didn't get a damn thing from our morning meeting accomplished.