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Comcast internet speed improved with non-Comcast hardware

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Re: Comcast internet speed improved with non-Comcast hardware

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Post by shaftway »

smoyer wrote: post #147
shaftway wrote: post #134

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Honestly, I like mine. Let's see... - No palm trees: great, they're tacky as all hell, fall over too easily and people never maintain them so they fill up with rats - No tall screening trees: great, same basic reasons - No painting your house: great, there's always some idiot who wants a horribly clashing house - File for changes: not a big deal, if your stuff is in order it usually takes a couple days. - Can't leave…

So you did have a beef with your HOA but chose to ignore the rules that you expect everyone else to follow? If I was your neighbor I'd be planting palm trees.

You make a good point. I actually never saw it that way and you're right. Not sure why. I'll replant those bushes and make an effort to stay off them in the future.

Thanks, and sorry to my neighbors for being an ass.

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Post by Flammy »

mikeyouse wrote: post #119
Flammy wrote: post #110

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Sadly still only providing download speeds, as Netflix (understandably) doesn't care about upload speeds.

I like fast.com for friends and family since it's so unambiguous, and then https://speedof.me/ for anything requiring more detail.

Thanks for the recommendation.

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Post by plopz »

Steeeve wrote: post #38

This is interesting. I had the same experience in Mountain View - paid for 100mbps+ service, and only got 30 - and even that was haphazard. I went through a series of support requests. I eventually complained to the FCC and cancelled service. Once I involved the FCC, I had a rep call me, say they absolutely understood why I would cancel given my experience and wish me well. They provided me a partial refund for servi…

Thats where competition benefits the consumer, its unfortunate that for large areas of the US, there isn't any competition.

Re: Comcast internet speed improved with non-Comcast hardware

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Post by smoyer »

shaftway wrote: post #171
smoyer wrote: post #147

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So you did have a beef with your HOA but chose to ignore the rules that you expect everyone else to follow? If I was your neighbor I'd be planting palm trees.

You make a good point. I actually never saw it that way and you're right. Not sure why. I'll replant those bushes and make an effort to stay off them in the future. Thanks, and sorry to my neighbors for being an ass.

Wow ... an actual stand-up guy! (or gal).

I tend to be anti-authoritarian myself and constantly have to remind myself that societies folkways, mores (and laws, regulations, etc) have a purpose other than to inconvenience me. Fortunately I've learned to drive more slowly and am not constrained by an HOA.

Re: Comcast internet speed improved with non-Comcast hardware

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Post by manacit »

rhino369 wrote: post #169
manacit wrote: post #162

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5GHz isn't a panacea, at least in my experience. It doesn't penetrate walls well enough to reach to the edges of my (quite small) apartment, so my laptops and other devices drop down to an acceptable rate on 2.4GHz. In addition, I think Sonos still sells devices without 5GHz radios (and probably plenty of other companies).

Maybe you have thicker walls, but 5Ghz should really be able to work in a small apartment. Lack of support is a huge problem though. Tons of devices are sold without 5Ghz support.

I live in NYC with old, thick walls (and a lot of interference, even on 5GHz). Even though my apartment is small, there are 3-4 walls separating where my AP is (at one end) and the other end of my apartment (the bedroom).

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Post by acdha »

MertsA wrote: post #130
JustSomeNobody wrote: post #91

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Not if it is their fault/equipment.

>Not if it is their fault/equipment. That depends entirely on the technician you get. At least for Cox, it's up to the technician to determine if the customer foots the bill or not and while you might get a competent technician who will happily redo all of the outside wiring while he's there for free you might also get a technician from some third party contractor who doesn't even have the equipment to test anything…

… and even if the technician does the right thing, there's no guarantee that the charge won't mysteriously show up on your bill next month unless you live in a city/state with very consumer-oriented regulators.

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Post by exelius »

zymhan wrote: post #148
exelius wrote: post #142

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Basically people move out to the suburbs so they can have more control of the area around them.

...so they agree to give up their property rights to an undemocratically elected group?

But they're with a group of like-minded people whose rules reinforce many of their other NIMBY tendencies (i.e. no homeless shelters, adult bookstores, garish homes.) They agree with most of the rules, but because they want more control they tend to complain loudly about the ones they don't like.

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Post by eru »

smoyer wrote: post #174
shaftway wrote: post #171

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You make a good point. I actually never saw it that way and you're right. Not sure why. I'll replant those bushes and make an effort to stay off them in the future. Thanks, and sorry to my neighbors for being an ass.

Wow ... an actual stand-up guy! (or gal). I tend to be anti-authoritarian myself and constantly have to remind myself that societies folkways, mores (and laws, regulations, etc) have a purpose other than to inconvenience me. Fortunately I've learned to drive more slowly and am not constrained by an HOA.

On some theoretical level the HOA contracts / rules are voluntarily entered into. So even the most hard-core libertarians (or exactly those!) should be into them.

Of course, in practice you often enter a HOA as the lesser of multiple evils.

Re: Comcast internet speed improved with non-Comcast hardware

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Post by eru »

zymhan wrote: post #168
baursak wrote: post #161

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HOA boards are democratically elected.

They make their own rules and voting laws. There is no requirement of equal representation like the US Constitution provides. Does every member of a family get a vote? How about every adult? Or is it just one vote per household?

The US constitution is but one of many sort-of democratic frameworks. And not overly democratic in its consequences (see gerrymandering, and the effects of the electoral college, or just all the problems with first-past-the-post even in theory).

So while HOAs have their obvious deficiencies, your attack is one of the weakest complaints imaginable.

Re: Comcast internet speed improved with non-Comcast hardware

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Post by gtdawg »

Matt3o12_ wrote: post #138
gtdawg wrote: post #79

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All devices going forward (especially isp routers) _should_ use only 5ghz. Consumers should have to spend extra on 2.4 AP gear to support legacy client devices. 5ghz has reduced propagation and there are so many more channels available that it is actually optimal to use in dense evvironments. Mesh wifi is pretty much a requirement for a lot of users to keep the same coverage with multiple rooms compared with their ex…

As far as I understand, 5ghz is weak on distance which is a problem at my apartment building. Every time I'm on the 5G SSID, the internet becomes unusable in the bedroom and kitchen which makes 5G unusable for me because my devices don't select the 2.4ghz band automatically.

I'm a little late with my reply, but I wanted the solution to be here as well.

Poor 5ghz propagation solved:

https://eero.com/ https://lumahome.com/ https://madeby.google.com/wifi/how-it-works/ http://www.samsung.com/us/smart-home/ https://www.open-mesh.com/

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