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Y'all are overthinking it. If I had an off-grid home, you know why I'd still want internet?
YOU.
I'd still want to chew the fat with my homies from Uncensored.
lol
:)
Mon Apr 19 2021 17:16:26 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar
Y'all are overthinking it. If I had an off-grid home, you know why I'd still want internet?
YOU.
I'd still want to chew the fat with my homies from Uncensored.
So, 5 days no internet.
Area went down Saturday. Fiber break/cut/whatever. They fixed that. But, several us us were still not working. Had to call back in ( really? they KNEW we were still down .. they could see it on their boards before they left the first time )
Dude was scheduled to come about 20 mins ago. I got a phone call ( i have VoIP .. so it was gone too ). It was the tech. I missed the call. darn. Went out side to see where the truck was and he pulled up. "ya, i plunged you back in, they forgot to this weekend after the other repairs were made " wtf freaking incompetent morons
2021-11-17 18:52 from Nurb432 <nurb432@uncensored.citadel.org>
So, 5 days no internet.
Area went down Saturday. Fiber break/cut/whatever. They fixed that.
But, several us us were still not working. Had to call back in (
really? they KNEW we were still down .. they could see it on their
boards before they left the first time )
Dude was scheduled to come about 20 mins ago. I got a phone call ( i
have VoIP .. so it was gone too ). It was the tech. I missed the
call. darn. Went out side to see where the truck was and he
pulled up. "ya, i plunged you back in, they forgot to this weekend
after the other repairs were made " wtf freaking incompetent morons
Something similar happened to me once. I came home and discovered my internet was out. I called and they said the earliest they could get a tech out was in a week. I scheduled the appointment, and then later looked out my window and noticed the box at the curb was wide open and had a new above ground connection going into it. Some jackass contractor had installed a neighbor's internet and I guess just unplugged me to plug them in my spot. I called back and went full Karen on them. I told them they unplugged me, and they had better get somebody out tomorrow or every day they leave me without internet I'm going to use to shop for a new provider. They didn't budge. They know there's nobody else worth a dime in my area, and they're right. So I ended up waiting the week, and the guy never even came to my house. He showed up, plugged me back in, and left.
The ISP situation in the US sucks.
AND.. after 1.5 hours some moron unplugged me.. had to call them again. thankfully i didnt have to wait days. "we had 3 techs in there, bla bla" excuses. No excuse for this. sloppy.
its all fiber.
And they claim they were still cleaning up from the damage Sunday. I dont buy that.
Wed Nov 17 2021 10:47:38 PM EST from zelgomerWhat even goes on in those boxes? Is it just a bunch of coax ports? Is there ever a legitimate reason to disconnect one you're not there to service?
What even goes on in those boxes? Is it just a bunch of coax ports? Is
This depends on the type of service. In the US there will generally be one of three types of service. I'm only talking about terrestrial service here, so this doesn't include 5G or Satellite or Fixed Wireless.
(1) DSL
In the US this service is in steep decline because it can't deliver multi-megabit speeds, but if there's a "box" it's just a splice box, as with old-fashioned telephone service. Each copper pair goes all the way back to the central office. Nothing fancy here.
(2) Passive Optical Network (fiber to the home)
I think this is what Nurb432 has. The "box" in each neighborhood contains unpowered optical splitters, allowing one strand of fiber from the central office to fan out to 32 or 64 subscribers. These shorter post-splitter runs will generally run to what *looks* like a splice pack near the pole, but it's actually just a small patch panel. When a subscriber orders service, the installer will go to the box and place a patch cable between an open port on a splitter and a shorter run going to the pack closest to the subscriber premises. Then he will go to that pack, attach to the matching port, and fly or bury a cable to the house.
(3) Hybrid
This is typically what you get when you order service from "the cable company".
They will run fiber to the neighborhood, and then the "box" in the neighborhood contains powered, active equipment, including a battery backup. This equipment (referred to as a "node" in their parlance) acts as a media converter, powering a plant of coaxial cable that reaches the subscribers in that neighborhood.
Depending on the size of the territory covered by the node, there may also be one or more powered midspan repeaters between the node and the subscriber, but these are becoming rare because of the limited bandwidth of coaxial cable compared to fiber; "node splits" happen often.
A couple of notes here --
Note 1: the little "pedestals" sticking out of the ground in neighborhoods where all cables are buried, may just be a small patch panel.
Note 2: in territories served by AT&T "U-Verse" the service is Hybrid, but the span between the node and the subscriber is actually a variant of DSL.
This means they *do* have to splice each customer at the node.
Hope that helps. I can talk all day about this stuff if you want :)
I have not seen their equipment myself ( other than the fiber modem at my house of course ) but i agree its #2. They dont offer anything other than fiber, never have, so it would not be hybrid.
Not sure why we dont move more towards municipal WiFi.. we have poles *everywhere* they could be mounted on.
It was bought up before ( i forget which room now.. might have been security ) But looks like OPVN, a normally free VPN service, offers incoming connections and a static IP if you pay. Looks like its 3 bucks a month.
https://www.ovpn.com/en/features/public-ipv4
Ok, i'm a moron, its not normally free. I got my public VPNs mixed up. Its 5 bucks a month if you pay by the year.
( was up too late last night fixing accounts after that migration i was bitching about in workplace. Should go back to bed but daughter in law is on her way.. )
Oh, i didnt mean to say it was out of line, just that the base wasn't free like i was thinking.. didnt want to lie to everyone :) i agree ~8 bucks a month isn't bad.
I still think my VPN people will offer it eventually with their static IP option, from that response i got when i asked. It was at least on their radar. Not that they are better or worse than anyone else, but they have been to court and it was proven they cant provide logs.
$5/month for VPN plus $3/month for the static IP service. $8 is still reasonable and I'm happy to see that someone else is doing it.
After realizing that it's been two years since I "cut the cord" and prompted by a flyer from The Cable Company claiming that now "they" have fiber too, it was time to call Verizon and get my deal sweetened again.
I will be getting the same 1 Gbps fiber service, a lower per-month cost, and *finally* rid of the landline service I don't want or need. Plus they're sending me a $200 gift card for re-upping.
Now I can finally get rid of those damn cordless phones that the family insists on keeping around.