No rattlers here, but we had a coyote that was following us a couple of times a few weeks ago. Got some dog spray to carry. Haven’t seen him since..

dkeage wrote:

Monday morning dudes.

We appreciate youse worker types and your contributions that keep us layabouts performing our layaboutness... and stuff.

deadeyedick wrote:

Bout to head to second, and final, round of going to the dentist. Getting a second filling. :(

Has anybody heard from Frankie T? Haven't seen him post in a while, hope he's doing ok.

RobertHively wrote:

Here I'm is!

MACS got the story from me a few days ago, before the problem got temporarily fixed.

I was changing cable boxes out at local Xfinity/Comcast shpo and mentioned that my internet has been slow forever. The guy who is like a genius looked up the account, tells me my router/modem is old...I say it's two years old!...he thinks that proves his point.

He says my current one is only 800 mbps or whatever and my service has been boosted to 1000 mbps so iff'n I swap my "old" one for the brand new(ly refurbished) one that looks exactly the same I should see much better results even with my old laptop.

Plug in the new modem, everything in the house works...except after 3 days of no problems my laptop suddenly can't connect to server. Several hours on the phone with CS, they give up, tell me it's probably my laptop.

I like the old girl, I don't do much on it but it's got a yuuuge screen and stuff, so even though I should replace it, I take it to the kid at the local shpo, who is also like a genius.

$100 later he says it goes on line no prob at the shpo, cleaned out some malware and stuff, but I need to get Comast to fix it on their end. Also says will probably work with some short money thing plugged into the side to get wifi but to try Xfinity first.

Several more hours on the phone (Filipinos are so nice) they give up, decide they will send a technician the next day. Nice guy. Spends 3 hours here. He's maybe like uh idiot, but a nice guy.

Call my friend Rick...MACS met him a few years ago... he's really an actual genius. Tries everything. Gets the plug in thingy, it doesn't work. So he said let's plug it directly into the router/modem thing with an ethernet cable...it works.

I hate the location so looks like I'll be buying a new laptop soon.

Once I figure out the answer, I'll let you know what I learned from all this.

frankj1 wrote:

Browsing the internet uses about 10-25mbs, streaming video uses 25-100 mbs depending on video quality, playing an online game uses 50-100 mbs.

So u would have to be watching 8+ TVs at once for your internet to be overloaded.

MidnightToker( • )( • ) wrote:

Here I'm is!

MACS got the story from me a few days ago, before the problem got temporarily fixed.

I was changing cable boxes out at local Xfinity/Comcast shpo and mentioned that my internet has been slow forever. The guy who is like a genius looked up the account, tells me my router/modem is old...I say it's two years old!...he thinks that proves his point.

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Once I figure out the answer, I'll let you know what I learned from all this.

frankj1 wrote:

Try one of these USB WiFi dongle things.

https://tinyurl.com/bdcpkuu5 

I've bought numerous of them for older computers that don't have WiFi cards them and never had an issue with dongles like these. For only $10, it's worth a try.

As MidnightToker said, if you are getting 800 Mbps, that's more than enough for most households. I too have Xfinity and I get around 300 Mbps and have not had issues. I just have the basic package since I don't need cable TV. I just use it for internet connections and streaming TVs so I don't a brazillion Mbps speeds.

I have 3 smart TV's, a few laptops, a few desktops, a few cell phones that can be online at any given time. Although they are not all online at the same time (why would an average house have a dozen machines online at the same time?) but I've not had any buffering or speed issues.

BuckyB93 wrote:

Try one of these USB WiFi dongle things.

https://tinyurl.com/bdcpkuu5 

I've bought numerous of them for older computers that don't have WiFi cards them and never had an issue with dongles like these. For only $10, it's worth a try.

As MidnightToker said, if you are getting 800 Mbps, that's more than enough for most households. I too have Xfinity and I get around 300 Mbps and have not had issues. I just have the basic package since I don't need cable TV. I just use it for internet connections and streaming TVs so I don't a brazillion Mbps speeds.

I have 3 smart TV's, a few laptops, a few desktops, a few cell phones that can be online at any given time. Although they are not all online at the same time (why would an average house have a dozen machines online at the same time?) but I've not had any buffering or speed issues.

BuckyB93 wrote: