I also notice the real estate market is really hot right now. I'm not sure if it's low mortgage rates, or people trying to move away from Covid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umS3XM3xAPk -----Original Message----- From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com Sent: Friday, August 7, 2020 1:37 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Sports Streaming 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.... > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
