This is unfair, real unfair. You know, It's great and all that after months of going to school, work, whatever, I get to stay home and relax during march break, Christmas vacation, etc. But the problem is, that the very instant the first day of whatever major holiday break begins, my internet speed does a 360 (no-scope), and plummets with a dive comparable to that of the last major stock market crash. This, of course, is because the very moment a major holiday break happens, every single kid in the entire western hemisphere is on the internet, driving the ISPs' tower's capacity through the roof.
Instead of coming prepared for the spike in capacity, which IS their responsibility as an ISP, they'd rather just slow you down, in favor of whatever spoiled kid is playing CoD multiplayer on his XBone. Meanwhile you're yelling in pure authentic rage at your screen, thinking to yourself: "You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?" as you struggle to watch yet another kitten video on YouTube in 280p.
This is unfair, this is unacceptable, and most importantly, I had to endure an entire year of work only to suffer through it.
Instead of coming prepared for the spike in capacity, which IS their responsibility as an ISP
Where did the specify that it was their responsibility? I know with my ISP they promised no such thing and they clearly stated service is as is and as available.
It sounds like you just have an overloaded ISP, perhaps look into alternatives if there are any?
Either it hasn't happened yet, or you have a bad ISP. My laptop has small internet failures, but I've NEVER had a time where none of my networks are available (having 6 or 7) which would indicate ISP traffic.
Cable is a shared medium meaning that the more people you share the line with are using it everyone is going to slow down. I am going to assume you have more family over during the holidays. Most home routers can barley handle 4-5 wireless clients without massive slow downs. Maybe before instantly blaming the ISP you make sure your home connection is capable of handling the amount of people you have on it.
With my home set up I never seen anything less then 90% of the speeds promised. When I first moved and got this ISP I was getting 10-25% of speeds promised I did not know why until I realized our home router could only handle NAT at those speeds. We swapped to a router that can NAT at Gigabit speeds. Even before if we were all watching YouTube and on low enough quality it was not hitting that limit it still ran slow.
I would make sure this is not the result of your home equipment and if it is not then maybe consider calling the ISP see if they consider this normal or if they have plans to upgrade the network in your area.
Instead of coming prepared for the spike in capacity, which IS their responsibility as an ISP, they'd rather just slow you down, in favor of whatever spoiled kid is playing CoD multiplayer on his XBone. Meanwhile you're yelling in pure authentic rage at your screen, thinking to yourself: "You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?" as you struggle to watch yet another kitten video on YouTube in 280p.
This is unfair, this is unacceptable, and most importantly, I had to endure an entire year of work only to suffer through it.
Who else agrees?
Where did the specify that it was their responsibility? I know with my ISP they promised no such thing and they clearly stated service is as is and as available.
It sounds like you just have an overloaded ISP, perhaps look into alternatives if there are any?
I think bad karma has come to me. My computer is acting coo-koo and its getting awful download speeds. My phone and laptop are fine!
- C.C.
Let's do some math.
1/3 = 0.333...
1/3 * 3 = 1
0.333... * 3 = 0.999...
1 = 0.999...
1 - 0.999... = 0.999... - 0.999...
0.0...1 = 0
0.0...1 * 10... = 0 * 10...
1 = 0
With my home set up I never seen anything less then 90% of the speeds promised. When I first moved and got this ISP I was getting 10-25% of speeds promised I did not know why until I realized our home router could only handle NAT at those speeds. We swapped to a router that can NAT at Gigabit speeds. Even before if we were all watching YouTube and on low enough quality it was not hitting that limit it still ran slow.
I would make sure this is not the result of your home equipment and if it is not then maybe consider calling the ISP see if they consider this normal or if they have plans to upgrade the network in your area.