State of the Game

nemolomen

nemolomen
Ralph Vargr said:
Tonight's round of storms are passing well to the north again.

Watched the Panther Clipper vids. Looks like a surfeit of them doing AFK builds. Yeah, that's what I wanted a Panther Clipper for...

The algorithm has been drowning me in coin dealer vids. They can't deal with all the junk silver coming in. My condolences. :)
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-5 points for actually discussing the game...

+ 💯 points for the big brother is watching you bit...
 

Ralph Vargr

Ralph Vargr
Is the new CG about hauling more cargo, while waiting to get a ship to haul it?

The supercell from last night didn't miss. Over one inch of rain in an hour. Epic lightning. Not being Texas, we didn't lose the city...

Long range forecasts show a massive heat dome over the Central US. Heat indexes above 100 F (37.7777778 C) for over ten days. Locally, 105 F (40.5555556 C).
 
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Morbad

Morbad
New ISP, finally:

https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat?test-id=c087da43-a0e0-4165-9c39-7a1b72cbda5f -- benched on my laptop over wifi while it was in power saving mode. Wired is 100-200Mbps faster and a few ms less jitter.

Only broadband option in my area until this year was a giant cable oligopoly (one option is considered a sufficiently competitive market by the FCC) which provided poor and steadily declining service quality while simultaneously doubling in price over the last decade, with no increase to upload bandwidth. Recently I was paying over $100 a month for a 500/20 connection that was almost unusable during wet weather. I had reported problems when I first bought this property, but since they only send people out on clear, dry, days, they dismissed my concerns, only for my modem to report 1-2 million uncorrectable errors a day the next time the weather was less than ideal.

New fiber setup is 500/500 symmetric for half the price, half the latency, and far fewer annoyances. Still twenty years behind some places, but it's the best I can hope for in the middle-income suburbs of a rust belt city where most infrastructure hasn't been adequately maintained in 30 years.
 

nemolomen

nemolomen
Morbad said:
New ISP, finally:

https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat?test-id=c087da43-a0e0-4165-9c39-7a1b72cbda5f -- benched on my laptop over wifi while it was in power saving mode. Wired is 100-200Mbps faster and a few ms less jitter.

Only broadband option in my area until this year was a giant cable oligopoly (one option is considered a sufficiently competitive market by the FCC) which provided poor and steadily declining service quality while simultaneously doubling in price over the last decade, with no increase to upload bandwidth. Recently I was paying over $100 a month for a 500/20 connection that was almost unusable during wet weather. I had reported problems when I first bought this property, but since they only send people out on clear, dry, days, they dismissed my concerns, only for my modem to report 1-2 million uncorrectable errors a day the next time the weather was less than ideal.

New fiber setup is 500/500 symmetric for half the price, half the latency, and far fewer annoyances. Still twenty years behind some places, but it's the best I can hope for in the middle-income suburbs of a rust belt city where most infrastructure hasn't been adequately maintained in 30 years.
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We just got fiber about 8 months ago. $113/month for 100mb/100mb and its been rock steady…so far…
 

Morbad

Morbad
nemolomen said:
Local backwoods up in the mountains of South Canada, er, Vermont.
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Broadband is pretty rough in the states outside of metropolitan areas with aggressive competition. I had FiOS fifteen years ago when I lived in the Philly tri-state area, but when I moved back to an area of lower population density I had to suffer through years of monopolistic cable providers that were charging much more for much less.

That $113 for 100/100 is a bit steep, but at least it's fiber and symmetrical.
 

nemolomen

nemolomen
Morbad said:
Broadband is pretty rough in the states outside of metropolitan areas with aggressive competition. I had FiOS fifteen years ago when I lived in the Philly tri-state area, but when I moved back to an area of lower population density I had to suffer through years of monopolistic cable providers that were charging much more for much less.

That $113 for 100/100 is a bit steep, but at least it's fiber and symmetrical.
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We upgraded from the 50/25 DSL which was $99/month. No brainer for the price difference...

Mind, the DSL was always rock solid as well since we've lived within 1300 ft of the nearest exchange in our last 3 houses over the past 28 or so years...

I'm originally from NW PA, opposite corner from Philly...
 
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Ralph Vargr

Ralph Vargr
No one ever leaves St. Louis. :(

I have a choice of two evilcorps for an ISP. I have the one that gives me gigabit fiber. The other evilcorp is notorious for bait and switch.

Expecting two weeks of a heat dome.
 
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