new internet

[Horace]

Been having reliability issues with my previous fiber provider, which gave me 1 gig bandwidth for $100/month. So I was finally motivated to switch to a more local provider that started here in the houston area, and is expanding. Somehow they have their own panel in the ground in my front yard, which I think(?) had been there forever, but maybe there's a chance they put it in recently. They trenched the line from the panel to the side of my home, then drilled a hole in the brick to a spare bedroom, where the modem and primary router are. One extender on the other side of the house and the whole home has 3x faster internet than before, for slightly less per month. And the tech support isn't phillipino or Indian. All local. That's nice. I am a little disappointed at how they ran the line into the home. This could have been concealed a lot better, but the guy said he had to follow the rules as they are given to him. Whatever. I'll wrap the black cable in tape that matches the brick color, so it won't be so noticeable. He drilled the hole from the inside, and it ended up coming right through the center of a brick. He should have started on the outside, in the mortar, and lower.

Time will tell about the reliability, but I don't expect it to be worse than the previous company.

[89th]

Now you can read my insightful posts 3x faster!

Nice local service. Yeah a little paint or something will be easy to hide that cable. Hopefully no animals chew on it.

[Mik]

You're better off to go through the brick than mortar. Drilling through the mortar can cause leakage and deterioration.

[Jolly]

If you've got an extra brick, take it to the paint store and see if they can match up the color in a sample size container.

[taiwan_girl]

Maybe a dumb question, but at what speed is there really no difference in the internet. In other words, if someone gets 15 Mps (like me), what am I missing by not getting 1Gps?

Now, I am not playing hi tech video games, or running a super computer, but doing general work, streaming movies, etc., web surfing, I dont have any problems. Mostly. LOL

[Axtremus]

@taiwan_girl said in new internet:

... what am I missing by not getting 1Gps?

Smugness.

[89th]

@taiwan_girl said in new internet:

Maybe a dumb question, but at what speed is there really no difference in the internet. In other words, if someone gets 15 Mps (like me), what am I missing by not getting 1Gps?

Now, I am not playing hi tech video games, or running a super computer, but doing general work, streaming movies, etc., web surfing, I dont have any problems. Mostly. LOL

If checking the internet or surfing the web, you don't need very fast internet. But if you do a lot of 4K streaming (movies, games), file transfers, or concurrent usage (wife/kids playing video game while you watch a movie), the faster (larger) internet bandwidth will help.

Not a dumb question btw!

[Horace]

Anything less than 5 gigs would be mortifying. I wouldn’t be able to show my face at dinner parties.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Horace said in new internet:

Anything less than 5 gigs would be mortifying. I wouldn’t be able to show my face at dinner parties.

You attend them via Teams?

[jon-nyc]

Try a lower resolution camera.

[taiwan_girl]

@89th said in new internet:

But if you do a lot of 4K streaming (movies, games)

To continue down the "rabbit hole", LOL with another general question. At what point does the human eye not be able to really tell a difference in screen quality?

When I go to a store and see the different TV's with the different screen qualities, oftentimes, the difference is almost nothing.

[89th]

I guess it depends how close you sit to the screen? 555