Gee, move even farther out from the city and you will have to drill your own
well and put in a septic tank.
Even farther and you will be doing off grid solar and generators.
Even farther you will have to commute with a helicopter.
Never understood folks that move out into the country but expect city type
of infrastructure.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nate Burke
Sent: Friday, August 7, 2020 12:33 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Sports Streaming
I just had a guy this week move out of the city. 'I was getting 350mb
for what you want for 20mb, your price is too high'. I refused to
move. He signed up anyway. Normal user traffic pattern of <5mb/s.
On 8/7/2020 1:23 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
My latest challenge (and the kids aren't even back to school yet) is
people
wanting more upstream. Because 3 people in the house are on Zoom
conferences, stuff like that. Or they are live streaming events on
Facebook.
The other thing, maybe a trend, I'm getting customers saying this other
WISP
is advertising a higher speed or a lower price, and wanting me to match
it.
I think it's similar to Nate's problem, people are wanting to do more
things
(like 3 simultaneous Zoom calls) and have more devices and streaming
services, but they don't want to pay more. So they shop around, and want
your steak to match a competitor's sizzle so they can get more without
paying more or doing any work.
-----Original Message-----
From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com
Sent: Friday, August 7, 2020 12:49 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Sports Streaming
Yep, watched two partial baseball games in the last week.
The Houston/Arizona game had an odd audio artifact.
Sounded like they were broadcasting from inside a culvert.
It might have been a misguided effort to simulate crowd noise but it was
annoying.
No pixilation here. I love that the computer now not only shows the
strike
zone, but sometimes it calls balls and strikes as well as giving the
speed.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nate Burke
Sent: Friday, August 7, 2020 11:26 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: [AFMUG] Sports Streaming
I've seen a big uptick in traffic over the last 2 or 3 weeks. Aren't major
sports starting up again? I'm guessing all the people who switched to
streaming only over the summer are now streaming the sports.
I've been dealing with one guy, he is on our lowest plan, and keeps
complaining that his sports are pixelated. And he's just gotta have
sports
and just doesn't understand why it's not working perfect on his 4k TV. I
can see he's maxed the connection 'My speed test is only 0.25mb and
nothing
in the house is running now, `still maxed traffic`, well the TV is on'
I'm
guessing that the Variable bitrate codecs takes more for sports than
normal
TV. I told him to upgrade his package, he said he didn't want to spend
any
more money on Internet. He's on Hulu + live TV + Sports, so that's
already
costing him more than what he's paying us, probably close to what
satellite
costs. Then He wanted to know what TV to buy to make it stream better, I
told him that wouldn't help. Then he wanted to know what WIFI extender to
buy to make it stream better, I told him that wouldn't help. But he's
claims he is on a tight budget and can't afford any more for internet. I
told him to put up an Antenna 'But then I can't get the sportsnet channel'
I told him to go find a new provider and stop calling me then. 'But I
don't like Comcast...' Tough, but I'm not talking to you anymore if
you're
complaining about streaming. Priorities people have....
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