As some of you know I have a YouTube channel. (Mopers4us)
Some of you also know I am recently semi retired from my business as a computer and Internet tech after over 20+ years.
I have worked at and with multiple ISP’s over the last couple of decades.
Well here over the last few months our service goes off every day probably 50 times or more just long enough to read the message from our devices that there is no Internet connection, and then it comes back on again.
They know it’s happening in this area.
They have checked the signal at the local junction box and said there is a problem with the signal, but fix it? NOOOO.
They just say they don’t know where the problem is yet.
We pay for a gaming capable connection (300mb) over cable, so it’s not like weather or any above ground factors would be involved here generally.
In most of todays gaming it is mandatory to stay connected to the game server or it kicks you out of the game, and in some cases the only option is to start the game again.
I don’t game, but I use the net for all kinds of thing including YouTube for videos.
Our Son however is a gamer, and is getting himself a new game system besides his X box.
He’s fairly pissed off over the Internet access here, and as the one paying for it so am I.
The Wife uses the net a lot, but the stuff she commonly does isn’t affected by the problem that much.
She only really notices when it’s down long enough to keep an Instigram page or video from loading.
But if you know anything about online gaming you know any disruption in the connection will end your game instantly.
Well, I got a survey email from them this morning.
If I loose my service over it I can live with that I guess, but the next best service around here is DSL and we already ditched our 100 dollar a month business land line in trade for cell phones because of that regularly being down for days at a time.
Imagine, your business line being down for days??? WTF?
I guess my dream of sitting on a white sands beach with a drink in my hand when doing business is growing closer every day.:D
Thanks for letting me rant.
