I'm on west coast and my entire community lost internet right now.
East Coast Internet Outage
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Re: East Coast Internet Outage
#262Earlier quoted context omitted.
FIOS is WAY better, they will fix their broken cable. I get (so far unlimited) 30gb up/down for $40/mo but it typically runs closer to 60 down 70 up. Fiber optic is baller. Though I do feel like they throttle me (web browsing becomes slow) if I am watching a streaming video service or mining crypto without a VPN on, could be an illusion but it always tends to clear up as soon as I activate the VPN.
60-70 gigabits per second for $40/month? Guessing you mean megabits. Not worth being packet inspected. 1gbit on comcast seems to give 42 mbps upload, was 50 a few months ago. ~$80/mo edit: hitting 48-50 mbps again today, sweet
Oh yeah my bad should be mb
Re: East Coast Internet Outage
#263When houses are created there are building codes to adhere to. For example, when there is a water pipe behind the walls a plumber (a good one) would also put a plate in front of it. In this way, once the walls are in place, drilling away into the wall, or nailing, would hit the metal plate, thus provides some safety mechanism. As another example, underground, in public areas are markings (or at least procedures) to i…
> when there is a water pipe behind the walls a plumber (a good one) would also put a plate in front of it Where are you located (roughly)? Having assisted in remodeling of 7 homes in the US (IL, WI, CA) built between 1880 and 2005 I haven't seen this.
I've never heard of it for plumbing, but kinda in a similar vein most electrical codes require a certain setback for all cabling running through studs and protection where it can't be maintained.
If the cable is passing through a stud less than 1.25" from either face of the stud (giving you ~1.75" once drywall is installed), then a metal plate has to be installed to stop someone trying to hang a picture or shelf or something innocuous up from driving a screw into the cable.
Re: East Coast Internet Outage
#264Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Firstly, America should strive to not have enemies. We fail at this very badly. This will never be possible, even if America does nothing 'wrong' against anyone else. As long as America (flaws and all) is a better place to live than other countries, and can be used as an example of how things can be better (though not perfect), and so will be a target of powers that don't want their own people thinking about improv…
America will always have adversaries. But enemies, who what to destroy the country? That's entirely our own creation. We should try to make enemies only when attacked. Not make enemies out of adversaries.
> America will always have adversaries. But enemies, who what to destroy the country? That's entirely our own creation.
There are innocent people who have done nothing wrong, and yet other folks want them wiped out of existence.
I'm sure we can all think of examples from history where this is true, both the recent and distance past.
Re: East Coast Internet Outage
#265Is this still ongoing? I'm having issues that I can confirm that as a result of this, and now three days later things are still spotty. Could be conflating multiple problems, of course.