The older I get the less food I seem to need.

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> On Aug 8, 2020, at 9:40 AM, James Howard <ja...@litewire.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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> 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> 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....
> >>> 
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