damnit stupid ISP's
16 years ago
General
I just got a new ISP that promised to be better than satellite internet and well...it is faster and some things work better like my utorrent, but I've noticed some period...ok frequent freezes in the data streams causing web errors....very irritating in online games that ironically I couldn't play at all with the satellite because of the lag time. Is there no justice in the internet world....I mean really I just got a microwave transmitter installed on my tower so that I could get fixed point wireless internet here and well now I get random freezes like they just forgot I was loading a web page or something...so I hit refresh again...and again...and again.... so I have written them an e-mail asking what the hell man....anyway.. anyone else have experience with this wireless crap...is there something I can change in my internet settings that will help out?
Jaleo
~jaleo
Ah internet and technology.....somehow I hate em too :P Specialy if a company promises you something but later isn't like that. Im sorry, can't help you, I'm really dumb with comps and that stuff
minotaurtoo
~minotaurtoo
OP
yeah, they showed several comments where customers bragged on how much faster than satellite they were, but failed to mention how during peak times the F5 button gets worn out thanks to errors generated by those little data stream freezes....oh well seems to be working fine now...just during peak times last night was the problem real bad.
Jaleo
~jaleo
well, hope now it doesn't lag so much or so often
minotaurtoo
~minotaurtoo
OP
part of it yesterday was my utorrent for awhile....we turned it off about 4pm and it worked fine till about 6 pm or so and then for about 2 hours it went to $#!T....after that was slow improvement and this morning utorrent is going full blast and I can still browse the web just fine...may have been temporary problem and I just joined the isp on a bad day.
minotaurtoo
~minotaurtoo
OP
Just an update, the new ISP's owner himself checked into the problem and has it fixed now and is working great even under heavy stress of multiple pc's watching streaming video. and now I'm hitting 3+ mbps down and 2 up..much faster than my old sat. connection and the response time is excellent
FA+