OT: Off topic ... Hi from an old timer ... plus, a Question

[der.hans]

Am 26. Jan, 2021 schwätzte Mike Schwartz so:

moin moin Mike,

> OT: Off topic ... Hi from an old timer ... plus, a Question
>
> Please forgive me if I have been "out of radio contact" for too long.

Yeah, it's been a while :).

I believe both CenturyLink and Cox are offering Gigabit if you're in the
right part of town. At least Cox puts a data maximum on it. I believe
someone pointed out that a true gigabit connection can hit the monthly
maximum in a few hours.

I was switching ISPs about the time that the pandemic started, so just
kept the old connection. I'm on one connection for dayjob and the family
uses the other.

Since the pandemic has started both ISPs have had multi-hour outages, so
it's been handy to have a spare. Paying for two connections is a lot
cheaper than not getting paid due to overloaded bandwidth :).

ciao,

der.hans

> (as in ... the "Wolf Brand chili" slogan)
>   (see, e.g.,
> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Wolf+Brand+chili%22+slogan&t=h_&ia=web
> OR ... just click over to the "[[Slogan]]" *section* of the Wikipedia
> article about "Wolf Brand chili" ... at
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Brand_Chili#Slogan
>
>
> * * * Question: * * *
> We upgraded our ISP service (at home) when my wife started working from
> home ... around the beginning of the pandemic. It is still "DSL", --
> through "CenturyLink" -- but supposedly it is now FOUR times faster than it
> used to be, (it "had been" ... for * * * *years. ** * *)
>
> I think we need something faster now. (We have 3 adults ... and make use of
> [either Zoom or "Google Meet" or something similar] a lot lately.
>
> Any advice?
> (including, whether or not we should have more than one ISP, just to be on
> the safe side?)
>
> Thanks in advance, ...
>
> Mike Schwartz
>    [elderly] timer
>    I may be in the Plug-Discuss archives ... if they [still] go "WABAC"
> ...
> Glendale  AZ
> schwartz at acm.org
>

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