No one h**es this more than I do: And I'll bet any amount of money on it. Not that there's anyway to win the bet, because it's subjective. Anyway, what I really h**e is a laggy...

Little Ball of Hate

And I'll bet any amount of money on it. Not that there's anyway to win the bet, because it's subjective. Anyway, what I really h**e is a laggy internet connection. Usually, it's fine. But I get these occasional lag spikes that last just long enough to get me disconnected from wh**ever online game I'm playing. Usually when I'm doing something important. And it usually gets my character k**led. I really can't think of anything that is more frustrating. I haven't been driven to a homicidal rage yet, or at least there were no potential victims around when it happened. Can anyone relate?

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

Little Ball of H**e wrote:

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I can relate to that but i am computer illiterate so figure it is always my fault. Maybe Hillary is spying on those of us not in her entourage .

mongo Loc: TEXAS

Little Ball of H**e wrote:

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It's happened to me as well. I've called the service to find out why seeing that I am paying for a boosted signal. When they check, they tell me I only have limited service. After I tell them they must owe me money, they check my service and say it was set low but can't give me a reason why, then they boost it back up and all the problems stop. This has happened several times. A few times,I lost important information.
I think they do it just to piss me off!

SEMPER FI

Little Ball of Hate

mongo wrote:

It's happened to me as well. I've called the service to find out why seeing that I am paying for a boosted signal. When they check, they tell me I only have limited service. After I tell them they must owe me money, they check my service and say it was set low but can't give me a reason why, then they boost it back up and all the problems stop. This has happened several times. A few times,I lost important information.
I think they do it just to piss me off!

SEMPER FI

Sounds like a law suit to me. You're not getting what you pay for. Start recording your calls to customer service, then take them to court. Get every penny you can out of them.

Little Ball of Hate

no propaganda please wrote:

I can relate to that but i am computer illiterate so figure it is always my fault. Maybe Hillary is spying on those of us not in her entourage .

I remember the good old days, when I had a cable modem. Talk about blinding speed. I wish I lived in an area with that Google internet. You can get Gigabyte speeds out of that, and the ping is in the single digits sometimes. Fiber optic is the way to go. You'll be literally surfing at the speed of light.

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

Don't know of any ISP that has a minimum speed it's 'up too' that you pay for. Say you pay for 75 Mbps you'll likely rarely see 75 but there are things you can do to help yourself like Registry edits to speed performance. It will depend on what your using for an OS, good cases are almost double your speed but it's more likely plus 10%.
http://www.speed-up-pc.org/speed_up_windows/registry_tweaks.php

mongo wrote:

It's happened to me as well. I've called the service to find out why seeing that I am paying for a boosted signal. When they check, they tell me I only have limited service. After I tell them they must owe me money, they check my service and say it was set low but can't give me a reason why, then they boost it back up and all the problems stop. This has happened several times. A few times,I lost important information.
I think they do it just to piss me off!

SEMPER FI

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

The good ole days was dialup at 4800, no pretty pictures, simple text.

Little Ball of H**e wrote:

I remember the good old days, when I had a cable modem. Talk about blinding speed. I wish I lived in an area with that Google internet. You can get Gigabyte speeds out of that, and the ping is in the single digits sometimes. Fiber optic is the way to go. You'll be literally surfing at the speed of light.

Docadhoc Loc: Elsewhere

bmac32 wrote:

Don't know of any ISP that has a minimum speed it's 'up too' that you pay for. Say you pay for 75 Mbps you'll likely rarely see 75 but there are things you can do to help yourself like Registry edits to speed performance. It will depend on what your using for an OS, good cases are almost double your speed but it's more likely plus 10%.
http://www.speed-up-pc.org/speed_up_windows/registry_tweaks.php

The quality of your WiFi can be a factor also. Years ago I had a T2 line in my office and it was near instantaneous. Haven't had that speed since. Now programs are so sloppily built that it takes high speed to do most anything. The programmers just write over old programs and d**g the old garbage along.

Little Ball of Hate

bmac32 wrote:

The good ole days was dialup at 4800, no pretty pictures, simple text.

Those were the good old OLD days. I stand by my previous statement.

badbobby Loc: texas

Little Ball of H**e wrote:

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I can
my wife is always interrupting me when I am on the internet
yes it is very frustating

Little Ball of Hate

badbobby wrote:

I can
my wife is always interrupting me when I am on the internet
yes it is very frustating

Lock the door. I'm sure she'll understand.

badbobby Loc: texas

Little Ball of H**e wrote:

Lock the door. I'm sure she'll understand.

doors make no barrier for my dear wife

Docadhoc Loc: Elsewhere

badbobby wrote:

I can
my wife is always interrupting me when I am on the internet
yes it is very frustating

Are you sure that's what you were doing?

badbobby Loc: texas

Docadhoc wrote:

Are you sure that's what you were doing?

at my age doc
I'm never sure