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Fiber??? I get plenty of that.

You misunderstand what I meant when I talked about going from slow to fast. Before this, I was using carrier pigeons to carry the packets back and forth. Now I have copper.

There are places in this valley where you can get fiber direct to your house, but I'm not in one of those places. I was told that I could get "up to 100 Mbps", but what they meant was that there were places where that was possible, and you could get that if you were in one of those places. I wasn't. So, I get 40 Mbps. That's a LOT faster than what I was getting, but it's only fast in a relative sense.

When I first got WiFi, I saw two or three other people out there, some of which were not secured. Now, it's over a dozen. I suspect it won't get higher than that. There has to be a saturation level when you have slightly more than 1/house within range, and I don't think I have more than about a dozen houses within range.

40 MBit per home is actually pretty damn good if you share the upstream trunk with fewer neighbours.

I'd happily trade a good internet connection for having fewer actual people around here, when the next family is a single layer of brick away it grinds your gears after a while.
You can't even go outside to let rip a good boxing-day fart without appearing in the community newsletter the next week. I didn't even light it this time.

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Originally Posted by wossy

40 MBit per home is actually pretty damn good if you share the upstream trunk with fewer neighbours.

I'd happily trade a good internet connection for having fewer actual people around here, when the next family is a single layer of brick away it grinds your gears after a while.

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What use to drag my internet connection was both of my kid's Windows 10 laptops and their smartphones, including my wive's phone, all connected to the internet at the same time. I've remember reading somewhere that Windows 10 calls home around 5,000 times a day, and many of these connections remain to record what the user is doing online until they turn off their computer.

I fixed this problem by blacklisting all Microsoft URL's and their third party partners, but for Microsoft, I only block them 6 days a week, but allow Win 10 to connect to them on Sundays to check for security updates.

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Originally Posted by Peter Porter

I've remember reading somewhere that Windows 10 calls home around 5,000 times a day, and many of these connections remain to record what the user is doing online until they turn off their computer

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5000 times per day is about once every 17.3 seconds. Multiply that by the number of Windows users in the world currently online and I think it would become obvious that this kind of traffic would be unsustainably huge, especially if there were a persistent connection.

You don't have to believe things that you read online (including this post!). You can gather your own information.

There's a free open-source tool called "wireshark" (among many others) that will allow you to see all the traffic on your own home network (coming or going) and judge the situation for yourself.

However, do remain skeptical, that's a good trait to have.

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Originally Posted by wossy

5000 times per day is about once every 17.3 seconds. Multiply that by the number of Windows users in the world currently online and I think it would become obvious that this kind of traffic would be unsustainably huge, especially if there were a persistent connection.

You don't have to believe things that you read online (including this post!). You can gather your own information.

There's a free open-source tool called "wireshark" (among many others) that will allow you to see all the traffic on your own home network (coming or going) and judge the situation for yourself.

However, do remain skeptical, that's a good trait to have.

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More than 500 hours of videos are uploaded to YouTube every minute. That's about 8 hours of videos per second. I think the internet can handle it.

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Originally Posted by wossy

40 MBit per home is actually pretty damn good if you share the upstream trunk with fewer neighbours.

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What do you think I am, an elephant?

Upstream is not 40Mbps, it's more like 2.

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I'd happily trade a good internet connection for having fewer actual people around here, when the next family is a single layer of brick away it grinds your gears after a while.
You can't even go outside to let rip a good boxing-day fart without appearing in the community newsletter the next week. I didn't even light it this time.

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HA!

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Originally Posted by Niya

I think the internet can handle it.

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Yes, the internet can, for sure. But can the average home network?

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

Upstream is not 40Mbps, it's more like 2.

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Yes, I understand how ADSL works, I meant the total bandwidth... nevermind.

I can't say that I really understand it. I'm not even quite sure how much I'm paying for this change. I'll have to wait to see the bill to figure that one out. They think I have a leased router. I think I don't have a leased router. I can't ask them, because if I'm right, they'd want to charge me for the new router they gave me. If they're right, then I can get a cheaper router and save about 20%. I think I'm right, but I'll know in a couple months (the first month is...hard to calculate).

For some reason, people just don't seem light hearted, lately.

I have noticed some unusual hostilities lately.

Send me their names, I'll take care of them for you.

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Originally Posted by wes4dbt

Send me their names, I'll take care of them for you.

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Well this Shaggy Hiker fellow and his accomplice wes4dbt are a just a few.

It's a new year, but it feels kind of old to begin with.

6 days and no one has anything to say. Anyone hear from FunkyDexter lately? We need to do a health check.

Yeah, I was wondering about that.

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Yeah, I was wondering about that.

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Really am starting to worry about FD.

I sent him a PM, waiting for his answer...

I'm sill here and thanks for the concern:wave:

Cough's not bad but I am feeling really tired and sleeping alot. I've been managing to drag my sorry ass to the desk to work a couple of hours in the morning and a couple in the afternoon but I'm basically spending the rest of my time in bed and I reckon I'm sleeping (or drifting) about 16 hours a day.

Officially my 2 week quarantine ends on Friday and I assume that means I'll be out of any danger. I am worried the tiredness might be a long symptom though. That would totes suck.

My prayers are with you :)