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Hey guys you want to increase your penalty timer without having to hit that quit button?
Do I have the solution for you just live in an area where this ######### company is your only source of internet and your number of disconnected games will skyrocket
Why yes i am pissed at my isp why do you ask?
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Up until recently we were still on their DSL line. Using "their" equipment I never had many issues. I bought the same exact model I was renting from them and setup a mesh network. Constantly had issues after that. So I bought a second modem and it was the same.
They also promised they could get us 100mbps down and 5 upload. When they came out to do it the technician said they were wrong and we lived too far away from the main box. After that though they raised my price, even though they couldn't hook it up. They told me it's because I switched to 100 but then had to switch back to 50. Which was realistically around 28 down and 1.5 up. So I lost any previous discounts or promotions I had with that plan.
Don't get me wrong, it was much better than the satellite or 6mbps we were on a couple of years ago but it wasn't great.
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Boy I'm getting deja vu rn
Did they also Blame the router they give you for the slow internet issue because without fail they mention the router and say they will replace it "free of charge" and says that should fix it and a day later without ######### fail you get 1.2mbps speed if you're ######### lucky that day
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No they didn't blame theirs, but they wouldn't give me any help with the one I bought because I wasn't renting it from them. Even though it was the same model. I only got bad download speeds a few times, except I didn't get what I paid for. It was usually consistent though. The long was all over the place, rocket League constantly had ping issu s. Upload was always between 1-2.
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It was almost the same with Comcast. The area I live in was for a long time only able to be serviced by Comcast, and their consumer packages capped at 300 down/no actual guarantee up. Except they'd not serviced their lines/poles/local hubs in decades, so if you got over 100 down it was a miracle. Lag was constant, disconnects were frequent. Even their TV packages couldn't sustain 1080p HD consistently.
Both tv and internet would go out when it rained because all of the junction boxes on the street had degraded/missing seals or rusted out parts of the boxes, so they filled up with water and took down entire streets at a time until the water evaporated. It took over half the town complaining before they sent out trucks to deal with the problem. Their solution? Replace all of the boxes/circuit boards and rewire the connections/cable ends to get rid of both corrosion and the possibility of water building up? Nope. Punch holes in the bottom of the boxes so the water could drain out. So you still got intermittent outages and unstable connections in the rain, it just wasn't a fully down thing.
A fiber internet provider finally approval to come in and wire up my town, and they were a godsend. Packages started at 1Gbps both up/down and for cheaper than Comcast was offering for their awful service. In frequent testing I'm consistently getting 950+ down and 980+ up. Lag doesn't exist on my end, and there's rarely any dropped packets. I can stream 4k HD tv on multiple TVs in the house and still get solid/smooth gameplay in almost every game. The new provider's installer for my house was laughing when we brought up the Comcast issues, saying everyone's said the same thing and all of their installers were completely booked for the next couple of months because the entire town was switching to them.
That was a few years ago and I've had only one outage in that time, which was due to a massive storm knocking down huge swaths of trees in the area, so the provider wasn't even at fault. As a bonus to the new provider, they had all the downed trees removed and the connection restored within about 24 hours.
It's one of the reasons I've been able to see just how bad BHVR's servers/connections/software are, even before the now all-too-common "Dedicated Server Not Responding" issues started and occasional random client crashes re-started.
The gravy on top was not too long ago I read an article about Comcast bemoaning lost revenue in my state because of "unfair competition". Yeah, that's the reason.
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Ughh I remember we had Comcast when I lived in town with my brother. The speeds weren't awful but they had a 300GB monthly download limit at the time. I could eat that up with just a couple of game downloads. After that it was $10 extra for so many GBs. They wouldn't ask either, just add it straight to the bill.
We too have fiber now and I live well out of town now. When COVID hit there were so many people in the county without Internet they had to do something. Many kids weren't able to do online learning. So our udge executive worked a deal with the electric company and an Internet company from another county. The electric company runs the lines through the county and to people's electric box. Then the Internet company comes in and hooks it all up.
It's sad that the fiber we have now is cheaper than Windstream or Comcast. No hidden fees like Windstream has with its phone taxes. It's also up to 1gig.
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