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"Modernizing its search engine has become an obsession at Google".... No doubt it can be modernized, but just making Google search as good as it used to be would be helpful. And why not better than it used to be with the traditional interface? That would still be worth doing even if Google adds on a superb AI. Search is the proverbial goose that laid the golden egg and Google is killing it, and I don't mean "killing"…
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ATT has provided the best service of any carrier while traveling, so I will use them. Really? My experience with AT&T while traveling has been pretty awful. In the US, in rural areas, Verizon is better. And outside the US, Google Fi gives you international data roaming as part of the base package. One of the reasons I switched to Google Fi is because it's so much better when traveling.
I used Google Fi for a while, and while I'd love to use them as a primary carrier again, I can't until they choose to support add-on SIMs for watches. As a Google Fi and YoutubeTV customer, I cannot wait until I no longer have to give AT&T any money at all.
"Modernizing its search engine has become an obsession at Google".... No doubt it can be modernized, but just making Google search as good as it used to be would be helpful. And why not better than it used to be with the traditional interface? That would still be worth doing even if Google adds on a superb AI. Search is the proverbial goose that laid the golden egg and Google is killing it, and I don't mean "killing"…
> I already knew from previous experience that for some reason, AT&T traffic to fast.com is throttled. Why AT&T wants bandwidth to appear lower than reality is a mystery to me, but I digress This I think is because they throttle ip addresses for known video streaming sites. That is one of (the only reliable) ways an ISP can get the streaming provider to drop the stream to a lower quality one by default. Since fast.co…
> Said the other way around: fast.com is great to see actual throughput from Netflix as opposed to some fake throughout from a dedicated speed test site for the exact same reason. Yup. This is pretty much the reason Netflix created fast.com. They wanted a speed test service that couldn’t be gamed by ISPs. Many ISPs will prioritise traffic to know speed test services (like Ookla’s speedtest.net), making their services…
Another fun part: when netflix IPs was blocked by this ISP, it's pretty much impossible to use netflix because the only way to get around the block was to use VPN, but netflix itself blocks VPN access.
> for some reason, AT&T traffic to fast.com is throttled. Why AT&T wants bandwidth to appear lower than reality is a mystery to me My guess is that Netflix is throttled, and given that fast.com is a Netflix site, fast.com is throttled too.
Since almost everyone usingfast.com on an AT&t network also use AT&t DNS, I'm surprised they don't do something funky with that, for example throttling IPs that did a recent Netflix.com lookup, but not IPs that did a recent fast.com lookup
While everyone knows that all wireless carriers are universally terrible, I've actually had a fairly noneventful (read: good) experience with T-Mobile over the last decade. I've never observed evidence of traffic shaping or any other shady business (like capturing NXDOMAIN DNS responses and directing you to a sponsored search page). I've also never observed significant performance degradation from congestion-based pr…
Yeah, except they leak customer data regularly and have offshored tons of customer service to India -- including onboarding. When I tried to sign up, they didn't know what an esim was and wanted my SSN, along with other data that could easily be used to steal my identity. I don't want to spend my days arguing with people, definitely not about the existence of esim; but I did that day. It went all the way up their cus…
I'm curious about your reasons to say that AT&T provides the best service "while traveling". I'm guessing it would be domestic travel, because AT&T roaming charges are the second highest among the big three (I believe Verizon is actually even more expensive).
I was a customer and an employee of AT&T for a while, and I find T-Mobile to be better in almost every aspect, except perhaps for coverage in very rural areas, which I don't mind. T-Mobile 5G coverage and speed is also significantly better.
"Modernizing its search engine has become an obsession at Google".... No doubt it can be modernized, but just making Google search as good as it used to be would be helpful. And why not better than it used to be with the traditional interface? That would still be worth doing even if Google adds on a superb AI. Search is the proverbial goose that laid the golden egg and Google is killing it, and I don't mean "killing"…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Said the other way around: fast.com is great to see actual throughput from Netflix as opposed to some fake throughout from a dedicated speed test site for the exact same reason. Yup. This is pretty much the reason Netflix created fast.com. They wanted a speed test service that couldn’t be gamed by ISPs. Many ISPs will prioritise traffic to know speed test services (like Ookla’s speedtest.net), making their services…
Now that my ISP bundles Netflix subscription into their internet plans, access to netflix and fast.com now practically saturate the fiber link, while before it was outright blocked. Hooray for no net neutrality I guess. Another fun part: when netflix IPs was blocked by this ISP, it's pretty much impossible to use netflix because the only way to get around the block was to use VPN, but netflix itself blocks VPN access…