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@ananaszjoe 2mbps was the crap I got at my hometown, which I'd give my soul for after I experienced the internet here. The only thing holding me back is the effort to find a new place and move all my stuff =/
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@ananaszjoe haha my friend, I grew up with internet measured in baud rate, on systems with RAM measured in megabytes and clock speeds in megahertz, graphics cards.. sorry 3d accelerator chips were uncommon and windows 98 SE was the gold standard...
Internet explorer was king and shockwave was still a thing. -
@seraphimsystems oh yeah I remember those times with black-and-white radio, and the rubber boots were made of wood!
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@seraphimsystems I never got to experience that, I'm too young for that. Except one part of it! The internet. Cause that's literally the internet I have here now. Rant aside though, I always envy that experience, you get to claim that you saw computers(sort of) grow from when it was young
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@seraphimsystems Back in those days the network wasn't clogged with this much devices with this great bandwidth needs. 2mbps 20 years ago was much better experience than it is today
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Can you fill in a couple blanks for me?
My first thought when I see stories like this is, "Why don't you investigate the router?" Did you move into an apartment where you don't manage your own internet connection? That would be beyond intolerable to me. How could you possibly agree to a situation like that?
Collect some metrics, call your ISP, and get a professional opinion on the connection you're getting. Obviously your ISP isn't going to do anything for you, as you're not on the account, but they will tell you that the quality of service is far below their standard. Take that information to whomever it is who manages the connection.
But Jesus fuck dude, get out of there and get a real connection of your own! -
@ananaszjoe
2mbps is faster that a T1, which twenty years ago cost around $1000 US per month, if you could even get it. -
@bahua cause I'm renting only a room in the apartment and the owner is staying in another room. If it was my own subscription I'd call the ISP everyday till the fix it =/ I would tinker with the router if I managed to login to it's settings but I'm having problems with login in to the router's settings page
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@euph
Man, I would recommend working through the landlord, rather than trying to hack the router. That could just get you kicked out, and get a black spot on your rental history. -
@bahua will probably work through the landlord once I convince him that LAN cables that have no connection on the other end don't slow down the internet. Wasn't gonna hack the router tho, was just hoping I could use admin/admin on it :') If I were to hack I'd probably try checking the other wifi around here. Thanks for the warning tho :D
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@user001 this. I've actually not thought about this. I wouldn't dare to do it but holy shit this actually slipped my mind
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@user001 that actually sounds amazing :') now I'm just thinking what I can super glue :')
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@tamusjroyce actually considered that ;) totally not talking about jamming the WiFi. But I think it's already slow for everyone from the start so I'm not sure what's there to jam
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@tamusjroyce well, I guess I know what I'm probably gonna be doing this weekend :D I was thinking how to convince the landlord that the internet is slow and you've given me a great idea :D
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@Gregozor2121 Pretty obvious it's me though =/ or they'd probably blame me anyways if the router was legit faulty
using my local provider
It feels stupid to see a simple google dork returning the list of your mistakes.
Seriously....
FKING. LANDLORD. FKING LANDLORD THINKS MY LAN CABLE SLOWS THE FKING INTERNET BACK TO THE 1990s.
- Prologue
I'm renting at a place that looks good af. But the fking wifi is so slow, 80% of the time you can't even send an empty http request.
- Chapter 1
Okay, maybe it's my laptop. *plugs in cable*. Now the requests fail 10% of the time. Better than nothing. 2 hours later, gets a text saying other housemates are having slow internet because of me. FUCK. Unplugs, LAN cable, uses mobile data and cries to sleep.
- Chapter 2
Tries again after a few days. Barely uses the internet (I'm only using it to play games, not even download it and I used more than this with a 2mbps internet). No videos, no music, just small data exchange with a low ping. GETS A FKING TEXT AGAIN
- CHAPTER 3
My sis comes over and complains that the net is slow af. Plugs in LAN cable while no one is around, everything is fine. Sis leaves, I roll up my end of the LAN cable in my room but leave the cable plugged in on the outside of the room. Next morning, it's unplugged. Plugged it back in before I go to work and when I come back, guess what? ITS FKING UNPLUGGED. AGAIN. AND IM NOT EVEN USING IT.
SOMEONE PLEASE STOP ME FROM GOING ON A RAMPAGE SHOVING THE FKING CABLE AND THE ROUTER UP PEOPLE'S ASSES. LAN FUCKING CABLES DONT SLOW THE INTERNET BACK TO THE PREVIOUS CENTURY. ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY'RE NOT EVEN PLUGGED IN ON THE OTHER SIDE. FUCK.
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