Around here you have to buy 2 of them to get them for $1 each.  You can get 1 
McChicken and a cheeseburger for $2 also.   That gives me a stomach ache just 
thinking about it…..

From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown
Sent: Saturday, August 8, 2020 10:20 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Sports Streaming

$1 cheeseburger from McD gets the job done for me

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> On Aug 8, 2020, at 8:57 AM, Trey Scarborough 
> <t...@3dsc.co><mailto:t...@3dsc.co%3e> wrote:
>
> Well the jokes on them because now it has spread there too. I really think 
> that the uptick in real estate is due to summer normal and people realizing 
> they don't make enough money to live in what they have after loosing an 
> income in there household for some extended period of time. In my household 
> it has turned in to I can't buy a $7 hamburger now because I need to be 
> saving money to buy the next bigger house because she isn't making as much 
> any longer. I try to explain that a $7 hamburger a day only amounts to $2,500 
> a year so it doesn't significantly amount to anything. That doesn't go over 
> well though
>
>> On 8/7/2020 1:54 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
>> 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><mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com%3e> On 
>> Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com<mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>
>> Sent: Friday, August 7, 2020 1:37 PM
>> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group 
>> <af@af.afmug.com><mailto:af@af.afmug.com%3e>
>> 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><mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com%3e> On 
>>> Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com<mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>
>>> Sent: Friday, August 7, 2020 12:49 PM
>>> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group 
>>> <af@af.afmug.com><mailto:af@af.afmug.com%3e>
>>> 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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