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update on my internet connection status
15 years ago
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I've got internet again for now. But for now it's just a 14 day free trial though Clear.
turned out there's a cellphone tower about 3 blocks away, that we can see just by looking out the back windows of our house.
So we get a really stable connection through that with Clear. Despite what they want to call it, they do throttle down your download speeds, when too many people are doing big downloads, so hopefully it'll speed up some once everyone on this tower is done updating WoW and whatnot.
We haven't dropped Comcast just yet, but we probably will after/if they ever get around to installing the new lines (so other providers won't have to pay for them and will be more likely to say yes later on).
Today also marks the 20th day since we were cut off. But in their system it claims it hasn't even been 10 yet, because someone is editing all the logs to hide the fact they have been missing the deadlines.
we called in on the end of the 3rd, and even though we had spoken to them earlier that day, suddenly they were saying there was no record of it ever being scheduled for the 3rd, and that it was apparently for the 6th the whole time. when we have proof in writing, and in the voice mails left on our phones, that it was on the 3rd. AND it's now the 7th, and we have yet to see even one Comcast van stop by.
So anyway for now as it stands with Clear, we've got something that while not grate at the moment, is at least far more reliable then when we've had for the past 3 years with comcast
Edit:
Seems I spoke too soon about Clear being reliable. Dispite being so close to the tower, we still somehow lose our connection at random times, on top of every night between 12-3 AM they apparently do maintenance which brings it down multiple times on top of that... So in other words, with them it would actually be a surprise to go a full day without getting disconnected. and with the slow download speed even when NOT being throttled, we can't count on a download finishing before getting cut off..
meanwhile Comcast FINALLY got the new line installed, and while still not as fast as advertised, it is noticeably better then it used to be, and so far I haven't seen it cut us off again YET. So for now we will have to stick with comcast until something better (like Surewest *crosses fingers*) comes along..
turned out there's a cellphone tower about 3 blocks away, that we can see just by looking out the back windows of our house.
So we get a really stable connection through that with Clear. Despite what they want to call it, they do throttle down your download speeds, when too many people are doing big downloads, so hopefully it'll speed up some once everyone on this tower is done updating WoW and whatnot.
We haven't dropped Comcast just yet, but we probably will after/if they ever get around to installing the new lines (so other providers won't have to pay for them and will be more likely to say yes later on).
Today also marks the 20th day since we were cut off. But in their system it claims it hasn't even been 10 yet, because someone is editing all the logs to hide the fact they have been missing the deadlines.
we called in on the end of the 3rd, and even though we had spoken to them earlier that day, suddenly they were saying there was no record of it ever being scheduled for the 3rd, and that it was apparently for the 6th the whole time. when we have proof in writing, and in the voice mails left on our phones, that it was on the 3rd. AND it's now the 7th, and we have yet to see even one Comcast van stop by.
So anyway for now as it stands with Clear, we've got something that while not grate at the moment, is at least far more reliable then when we've had for the past 3 years with comcast
Edit:
Seems I spoke too soon about Clear being reliable. Dispite being so close to the tower, we still somehow lose our connection at random times, on top of every night between 12-3 AM they apparently do maintenance which brings it down multiple times on top of that... So in other words, with them it would actually be a surprise to go a full day without getting disconnected. and with the slow download speed even when NOT being throttled, we can't count on a download finishing before getting cut off..
meanwhile Comcast FINALLY got the new line installed, and while still not as fast as advertised, it is noticeably better then it used to be, and so far I haven't seen it cut us off again YET. So for now we will have to stick with comcast until something better (like Surewest *crosses fingers*) comes along..
