Whats rustling your jimmies?

Pyros said:

Internet's fucked, doesn't happen often but really annoying when it does. Anyway I can use my phone decently enough, and they have some sort of "emergency" thing where they give me 200gb of data on my phone when that happens, but I also have no fucking idea what 200gb of data is supposed to be cause I just have unlimited data usually so I just do whatever and never looked at how much I use, now I have to pay attention and not open stupid big pictures and videos and what not "in case of".

Guy fixing it comes on wednesday, which is relatively fast, but no idea if it'll be fixed then cause most likely someone fucked with the connections at the hub in the street(like when installing for a new client or whatever) and they have to unfuck that. Hoping it's fixed then otherwise gonna have to use the phone for a while, and it's fucking slow.

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200gig is pretty solid for "normal usage". You shouldn't have an issue.

Pyros said:

Oh yeah I remember now it being like that before when I had long duration internet issue a few years back, they didn't have the 200gb stuff(well it was a different ISP, their "solution" was to use other people's opened wifi with a special password, but there were few ppl on that ISP and the wifi was terrible in that appartment because of whatever was in the walls I don't know), once I ran out of my normal stuff it just was throttled to shit but was still useable for some things like collecting login bonuses in whatever game I was playing at the time.

Looking at it after a day it seems I used a bit short of 3gb anyway, so seems fine. I'm mostly playing so it doesn't consume much, and since everything is so slow I don't feel like checking videos out so that's probably why it's not using much.

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Yeah 200 gig is a pretty insane amount of data if you aren't mass downloading/streaming.

Pyros said:

Well fuck, guy came in nice and early(good when they tell you it can be anytime from 8AM to 1PM), spent 30mins checking stuff out then figured the issue wasn't at the hub thing in the street like I thought nor at any connection point on the way, so must be somewhere inbetween which means another guy needs to come and fix the whole thing so I have to wait some more. No freeze, big rain or roadwork so it's kinda weird it just died out somehow in the middle, especially since the fiber was installed like 4-5years ago only so it's pretty new stuff. Think I'll go install the ADSL box tomorrow see if it still works and get a 1month sub to some shitty ISP that has no cancellation fee so I get a bit better connection than my phone.

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Most likely causes of issues between the work out terminal and the premise include squirrel bites (if aerial), various other critter related issues (if aerial), shovel cuts to the cable (if buried) , a bond that wasn't properly tightened at the termination point, a microbend in the individual fiber itself (not the entire cable), a microbend in the fiber jumper (if it uses one). The list of possible causes between the workout terminal and the central office are too numerous to mention. More likely than not if its a simple fix once they dispatch on it in either case. The question is how long it takes them to get the ticket into the workflow for dispatch.

Pyros said:

It's underground that's why the common causes wouldn't apply but yeah they might have fucked something when they installed it or whatever. Anyway they sent me a SMS to confirm it'd get fixed "soon", and then 4hours later that they had an actual date, and that's in a whole fucking month. Don't think we have the same definition of soon, but it is what it is, got the ADSL setup so that's something at least, shit fucking packet loss randomly though which is kinda annoying, not unplayable but not great. Better than the phone though. Back to the 2000s internet.

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In general telcos divide the work load between workout terminal and the house and the workout terminal and the central office. Service tickets usually involve a house technician seeing if the issue is from the terminal to the house and if not, if there is a spare pair/fiber heading back to the central office he can easily swap service to. If it is between the terminal and the central office and no spare will work, then he rolls the trouble back to the cable repair unit.

I dont remember you saying who your provider was, but calling and declaring you work remotely or have a family member with a medical condition that requires frequent connections to medical monitoring stations will usually get your ticket moved into the work load in a day or two.

just found out patron has discontinued my favorite adult beverage. I don't know why, but it's only been around for a few years and most people have never heard if it, so i'm guessing poor sales because of no advertising.

Roca Patron. Before it came out my goto was Patron Silver. i'm not sophisticated enough to explain what is better about the flavor, but it tastes so much better that the regular patron silver tastes like garbage now. I keep the silver in the fridge because that makes it taste better. My wife once put the roca in there and it made it taste like shit. Even when it got back to room temperature it still tasted bad.



If i'm being honest, I think the higher proof is a big reason. Standard tequila is always 80 proof, this is 90. I've noticed that I tend to prefer higher proofs no matter what the liquor is. So anyway, I drove around monday and bought every bottle in the city. I have tried to order some online but I haven't heard from them since placing the order saturday. I drink about a bottle a month so I've got the rest of the year to find something else.

Online radio station I used to listen to has gone from this (no autoplay or anything on the links);


to this;


From Rock/Grunge/Alternative to modern bland muh muh muhmuh muh muh muuuuuhhh muh music...

My kid has broken two of my keyboards this month.

1. Got ahold of one I had my closet and bit keys off it in some way where I can't reattach them.
2. Spilled my coffee over my primary keyboard I use for my PCs and now it is dead.

The second one pissed me off the most. I use that one for work and had to get a replacement overnighted.