Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Noodleface
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If I was rich I would pay for google to start fiber installations up here. So done with Comcast
Falstaff
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I'm hoping that they are just being very meticulous and correcting mistakes/learning as they go instead of rolling it out as fast as they can. That way once they start to pick more cities they can roll it out much quicker and more efficiently.
Living in some random suburb of Chicago means I'm unlikely to ever get it in my lifetime, but a kid can dream!
Louis
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Well beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I'm getting 3/.75? for $46. That's an awesome deal for scmucks like me that are fucked.
Joeboo
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BrutulTM
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Even though there is no reasonable use for that much bandwidth, I like that they just say "we can make it this fast so we're making it this fast". Nice change from the Comcasts of the world that would like to just increase your speed by 10 mbps every few years when they feel like bumping the price up a bit and acting like they are actually improving their network rather than just removing artificial limits that they put on it in the first place.
BrutulTM
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If it makes you feel any better, I am paying $79.99 for 3/.128 and I have a 17GB download cap on a 30 day rolling window. If I go over the cap, they throttle me to .128/.128 until my cap number gets to 70% which inexplicably always takes 3 weeks.
The main upside to it is that I can make almost anyone feel better about their current broadband options.
Louis
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Lol thanks for that. Sad thing is I live in a big city (by Louisiana standards) that actually has fiber, but they don't run it to my neighborhood for whatever damn reason. I'd be getting like 50 down if I actually had access to it for the same price.
Edit: After researching my local fiber I had no idea that so few places actually have it. Also, had no idea the legal battle the city government went through to actually make it happen.
Crone
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haha, I'd probably take a week off as well, just because it's so awesome. With those speeds, so many things are possible!
and who says you can't still take time off for Kunark? I did it on EQ's progression servers not that long ago. Every new expansion that drops is exciting rush to be the first! hehe
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So I feel like I already know the answer to this but I'm going to ask anyway. I'm currently using Uverse (no complaints like others though) at my apartment complex but I'm moving into a new house in less than a month. Despite my best efforts it doesn't appear that anything other than satellite is going to be available in the neighborhood for the foreseeable future (I work for AT&T and it doesn't seem we are adding DSL capacity and/or availability for Uverse right now in the neighborhood). Part of that seems to be because the cable companies can't have access to the land for providing service. Whatever I guess.
The question boils down to do I look at satellite internet (assuming still terrible latency on average) or look at getting some sort of LTE hotspot. My primary concern isn't browsing the web but still playing MMO's which I had a friend who tried playing EQ years ago with it and it was a horrible experience. I'm sort of leaning toward the LTE hotspot being better latency wise to game when wanted (PC, Playstation, Xbox, etc.) and just use the satellite for normal browsing/email.
Do any of you have recommendations? I couldn't be more bummed at the lack of internet options I'm having at the new place. Should have picked a better location.
The question boils down to do I look at satellite internet (assuming still terrible latency on average) or look at getting some sort of LTE hotspot. My primary concern isn't browsing the web but still playing MMO's which I had a friend who tried playing EQ years ago with it and it was a horrible experience. I'm sort of leaning toward the LTE hotspot being better latency wise to game when wanted (PC, Playstation, Xbox, etc.) and just use the satellite for normal browsing/email.
Do any of you have recommendations? I couldn't be more bummed at the lack of internet options I'm having at the new place. Should have picked a better location.
BrutulTM
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If you can get LTE and it has a decent data cap then it's a no-brainer. You don't want satellite unless you have no other option. I say this as someone who has been on satellite for the last 5 years. Latency is near 1 second and will never get better unless they reduce the time it takes radio waves to travel 20,000 miles.
Tarrant
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Noodleface
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I've noticed the resolution on my netflix on comcast has been pretty shitty lately.. although I cannot confirm this with any sort of numbers, just an observation.
Joeboo
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I've used quite a few different services, my father has Hughesnet satellite at his lake home. I'd emphatically say that satellite is WAY better than his only other option of dialup, but that's about all it's better than. If you legitimately can get a 4G LTE signal at your home, go that route, it's going to be better in every possible way.Do any of you have recommendations? I couldn't be more bummed at the lack of internet options I'm having at the new place. Should have picked a better location.
You can web browse with satellite, but it's almost impossible to do online gaming(unless you're playing some turn-based strategy game) and it isn't very good at streaming video either. I've gotten Netflix to work, but the quality is horrid it has to decrease the quality so much to be able to stream. Unfortunately, there's zero cell data signal at my dads lake house either, so satellite is his only option other than dialup.