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<\/p>\nThey wouldn’t give me a new promotional rate for 90 days after my last promotion ended, so I threatened to cut my premium channels and they called my bluff.<\/p>\n
Then they sent me a letter saying that they were going to lose NFL Network in May or something like that and to apologize, they would give me 6 pay per view movies if I called in.\u00a0 So I called in. And while talking to them, asked them what kind of promo I could get on the triple play.\u00a0 Lady said I should use the internet to upgrade and get bundles.<\/p>\n
Internet says that their advertised bundles only are for new customers.\u00a0 For more information, call some 800 number.\u00a0 So I call.\u00a0 I was bored.\u00a0 Sal was already asleep for the day.<\/p>\n
That person asks me what my internet offer is.\u00a0 It was kind of odd, like he was fishing for a price.\u00a0 So I say the price. And he automatically says “Oh, you qualify for that.”\u00a0 Almost too quickly. I feel like I should have said a price 20 bucks lower or something.\u00a0 But it was too late.<\/p>\n
Then he said that to qualify for the new promotional pricing, I would need new hardware which would bring my modem speeds up to their new tier.\u00a0 I ask how much more that costs and he says it’s in the promotional price that I’m getting.\u00a0 And he says I won’t get the premium channels activated until this new modem is activated.\u00a0 So we schedule a meeting.<\/p>\n
They’re delayed, then the tech isn’t sure that the connection is strong enough, then we mess around with the box a little bit and then we spend 30 minutes waiting for the new modem to connect to the mother ship.\u00a0 He then uses their own speed test and shows me 50+ mbps download speed and 20+ mbps upload speed on their box.<\/p>\n
We talk about how the 802.11g router\/card that I’m using are going to cap those numbers.\u00a0 And if I even plug in to the router, there’s going to be some limiting too, due to the hardware within the router. The fastest connection would be straight to the modem.\u00a0 But that takes restarts and blah blah blah, so since Catherine’s home, we’re using the router.<\/p>\n
Wirelessly, I’m kind of capped at around 7 mbps and change.\u00a0 But I just plugged in to the router and got these numbers:<\/p>\n
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This is all for the sake of bwebb…who has his house wired with a gigabit switch, but only has a 3 mbps pipe coming into his house…I’ll plug directly into the modem some other time.\u00a0 To really rub it in.<\/p>\n
Updated with a direct connection:<\/p>\n
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