I guess this is what you call a “first-world problem”. Got so used to internet that I forgot some places don’t even have stable internet connection… or internet at all…
I mean I guess having mobile data as a “backup” makes this only a slight annoyance…
ISP is Xfinity/Comcast btw
As someone who used to work for an ISP I always used to hate it when people acted like it’s the end of the world when there was an outage. I’m not saying this is you, but some people I guess imagine that things happen with a waving of a magic wand. Things brake, things need time to be fixed.
I don’t know how your ISPs work, but in my experience the estimated time is usually way more than what they really need to fix it. They just do it in case things don’t work out as expected. You will be way happier it they tell you they will fix it in 5 hours and actually manage to resolve it in 1 hour. Instead if they say its going to be an hour and then spend 5 hours fixing it you wouldn’t like it as much.
Internet access is increasingly becoming as crucial as any other utility. For some people, losing Internet might interfere with work, school, or medical devices.
It’s not “the end of the world” if my electricity is out for 5 hours, but it might cost me hundreds of dollars in spoiled food. It’s not “the end of the world” of my Internet is out for 5 hours, but it might “cost” me PTO.
“Things brake” Yes cars brake to slow down, things break.
Through a series of circumstances that I could rant about for a long long time, I recently went about a month without internet involuntarily. After 15gigs my mobile data slowed down so far I couldn’t use it for anything more than text posts sometimes. It was awful
i wonder how viable is the calyx internet box?
I’ve used it before… don’t remember the exact details, but in summary: It’s meh. You can’t really use it as a main internet, you can use that plus you phone (on a non-tmobile carrier) data as a backup. Sometimes its good, times it’s… ugh…
For example: You can’t be doing “work from home” over this as your sole internet connection especially if its synchonous like a virtual video meeting or something. It’s more like a backup to cover the gaps of outage of your prinary internet. (Just pray both doesn’t go out at the same time)
