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I might have to go back to the local cable company if this continues.
Anyone experiencing this in SoCal?
Cellular service isn't all that great either.
They rolled this back when folks complained, but I wonder if the relevant infrastructure is still sitting around and mangling packets.
I would probably expect this to be some network card or cable or connector is failing though...
It's an interesting juxtaposition of how tolerant TCP/IP is of random bit flips, yet how intolerant application layer protocols are.
It's ironic that for the most part Silicon Valley only has terrible ISP infrastructure. Cellular service isn't all that great either.
I suspect if the droughts didn't make people get rid of their green grassy lawns homeowners would be more amenable to seeing green network boxes every few houses. It looks awful in the context of concrete sidewalks, though.
It's ironic that for the most part Silicon Valley only has terrible ISP infrastructure. Cellular service isn't all that great either.
The ISPs have tried, but they get pushback from local residents whenever they try to install the necessary network boxes at intervals down the street. They had to go out of their way to hide cellular towers as streetlamps to get the 5G rollout to happen; I remember getting two or three notices for this (each from different telcos, so the one street corner has three streetlamps and two traffic lights on one corner). I…
It's ironic that for the most part Silicon Valley only has terrible ISP infrastructure. Cellular service isn't all that great either.
I'm so happy to have had the opportunity to switch to Sonic's Fiber last month.
That may not make any difference, depending on your locality. Unfortunately AT&T infrastructure is still relied on by others such as Sonic, which leases lines from the likes of AT&T fiber, at least in my locality.
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The ISPs have tried, but they get pushback from local residents whenever they try to install the necessary network boxes at intervals down the street. They had to go out of their way to hide cellular towers as streetlamps to get the 5G rollout to happen; I remember getting two or three notices for this (each from different telcos, so the one street corner has three streetlamps and two traffic lights on one corner). I…
Solution: Paint the boxes grey.