Bandnarrowness

[unixronin]

Between Sprint's miserable excuse for working dial-up service and presumed issues at LiveJournal, my journal and friends page are now being cut down from ten to FIVE posts per page, because I can no longer reliably get more than five or six posts loaded at a time even when our so-called connection is otherwise idle.  It's less frustrating to load the day's posts five at a time than to make three or four tries per page to load them ten at a time (and still often end up having to load posts individually from the page summary).

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Update:  And even that isn't always loading fully on the first try.  This is fucking ridiculous.  If our connection sucked any more ass we'd be better off mailing floppy disks to someone with an actual connection.  But it's useless talking to Sprint, because telcos aren't actually required by the FCC to provide any guarantee of usable data service, just voice.

Yo, Sprint!!!  I don't HEAR no fucking pin!!!

Comments

[ehintz.livejournal.com]

Back when I was a support monkey I always told my customers to call the telco and tell them the following: "I get a lot of static on my line. It's intermittent, but it usually gets worse when it rains, so bad that I almost can't hear the person on the other end". See, you tell the telco that your data is teh suck, and they'll blame it on your computer and ISP. Tell them you've got static in the rain and things get fixed.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

We don't need to lie about that problem. We had the problem -- when our phone lines didn't just cut out altogether during rain, that is. Each time Sprint "fixed" the problem (until the next heavy rain), the line and the data rate ended up worse than before.

[ehintz.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, the lovely taste of incompetence in the morning...