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<font face="Calibri">I would think hard about upgrading to a
"faster" plan.<br>
The Wall St. Journal did a study that basically said you gain no
advantage for streaming media by upgrading to a faster plan. <br>
The WSJ article is behind a pay wall, but this article summarizes
the results.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://medium.com/gowander/quick-take-wsj-the-truth-about-faster-internet-its-not-worth-it-c73d79a616b9">https://medium.com/gowander/quick-take-wsj-the-truth-about-faster-internet-its-not-worth-it-c73d79a616b9</a><br>
<br>
I've been working from home since last March when Covid started. I
have two kids. One is in high school who is on Zoom all day for
school. The other is streaming Pluralsight/Youtube/Coursera all
day doing self-learning to become a software dev. I'm a DBA and am
on all kinds of video calls/meetings throughout the day as well as
transferring large files to/from my local network. My wife works
remotely as well (altho not very many video meetings). In the
evening the kids are streaming movies/Youtube/video
games/Discord/etc. With all this streaming going on I've never
experienced any noticeable lag/dropouts in streaming or video
conference calls. However, we consistently *almost* reach our
1.25TB cap each month. I have the Cox "</font><font face="Calibri">Internet
Preferred" plan (100Mb down/10 up). Since we are using a lot more
data I'm considering upgrading our data cap (but not the speed).<br>
<br>
As far as the redundant ISP idea, I too worry about this. But my
plan in the event of an ISP outage is to use my mobile phone as a
hot spot. It'll work in a pinch to get me by until the outage is
resolved. I've only ever experienced short outages with Cox, so
having a backup ISP seems like a lot of wasted money in my
opinion. But, you have to assess you're own situation and make the
decisions that work for you.<br>
<br>
Something to consider....<br>
Peter<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/26/2021 3:49 PM, der.hans via
PLUG-discuss wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:alpine.DEB.2.11.2101262243580.298@post">Am 26. Jan, 2021
schwätzte Mike Schwartz so:
<br>
<br>
moin moin Mike,
<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">OT: Off topic ... Hi from an old timer ...
plus, a Question
<br>
<br>
Please forgive me if I have been "out of radio contact" for too
long.
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
Yeah, it's been a while :).
<br>
<br>
I believe both CenturyLink and Cox are offering Gigabit if you're
in the
<br>
right part of town. At least Cox puts a data maximum on it. I
believe
<br>
someone pointed out that a true gigabit connection can hit the
monthly
<br>
maximum in a few hours.
<br>
<br>
I was switching ISPs about the time that the pandemic started, so
just
<br>
kept the old connection. I'm on one connection for dayjob and the
family
<br>
uses the other.
<br>
<br>
Since the pandemic has started both ISPs have had multi-hour
outages, so
<br>
it's been handy to have a spare. Paying for two connections is a
lot
<br>
cheaper than not getting paid due to overloaded bandwidth :).
<br>
<br>
ciao,
<br>
<br>
der.hans
<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">(as in ... the "Wolf Brand chili" slogan)
<br>
(see, e.g.,
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Wolf+Brand+chili%22+slogan&t=h_&ia=web">https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Wolf+Brand+chili%22+slogan&t=h_&ia=web</a>
<br>
OR ... just click over to the "[[Slogan]]" *section* of the
Wikipedia
<br>
article about "Wolf Brand chili" ... at
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Brand_Chili#Slogan">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Brand_Chili#Slogan</a>
<br>
<br>
<br>
* * * Question: * * *
<br>
We upgraded our ISP service (at home) when my wife started
working from
<br>
home ... around the beginning of the pandemic. It is still
"DSL", --
<br>
through "CenturyLink" -- but supposedly it is now FOUR times
faster than it
<br>
used to be, (it "had been" ... for * * * *years. ** * *)
<br>
<br>
I think we need something faster now. (We have 3 adults ... and
make use of
<br>
[either Zoom or "Google Meet" or something similar] a lot
lately.
<br>
<br>
Any advice?
<br>
(including, whether or not we should have more than one ISP,
just to be on
<br>
the safe side?)
<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance, ...
<br>
<br>
Mike Schwartz
<br>
[elderly] timer
<br>
I may be in the Plug-Discuss archives ... if they [still] go
"WABAC"
<br>
...
<br>
Glendale AZ
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:schwartz@acm.org">schwartz@acm.org</a>
<br>
<br>
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