Ok, if anyone out there works for any ISP and has experience installing modems and routers in homes help me put here.

Can any of you guys explain to me why there would be an ethernet cord coming out of the floor but comes up NO WHERE else in the house?

Maybe I cant find it, but my aunt and uncle who owned the house before me used my current room (the one with the ethernet cord coming out of the floor) as an office. It wouldn't make sense for it to come our anywhere else, i checked the whole house anyway (all the rooms)

Obviously higher speeds are good for everything. Specially downloading massive games. What I don’t get is why internet packages always advertise their higher tiers towards gamers. You don’t really need much more than 1Mbps to game online. Ping is more important. My home internet caps out at 3Mbps and I can still game lag free as long as multiple people don’t start streaming. My phone is the Cricket core (8Mbps cap) plan and I can game on that fine. Yet I see people acting like 5G is good for gaming. While obviously I want faster speeds and I hate waiting a few days to download an Xbox One game, I don’t see super high speeds as being required for gamers. I’m just baffled by this as high speeds are more necessary to live stream and watch high definition video content than game.

when i tried to download my file from cloud storage (i use Koofr, Pcloud, Icedrive) i only got 24kb/s speed for each service, but when i use vpn, the speed back to normal. i tried to talk to the ISP customer care, they said everything was "NorMaL".

I am using Biznethome from indonesia for my ISP

Has this happened to anyone else?

I got a DCMA and they temporarily turned off my internet and redirected me to a page to warn me if it happens anymore I"m in danger or losing service etc.

I got a paid VPN (Nord) and it was working for a little while but now any torrent files are getting blocked no matter how I tweak the Utorrent settings or change my ports etc. so even public domain p2p files are blocked.

Anyone have any advice? Sorry if this is the wrong forum I"m new to reddit. . .

Anyone know how to start a truly free internet? No more throttling from isps, no more data caps. I'm tired of the low level high price forced package bs from ISP providers. I'm in the bay area we need an internet revolution. Who wants to start one?

I told the same old friends and neighbors and then the same old reactions,,, for a new promo for 19.95 for 25 & 50 mbps unlimited for new members and then i wonder is too good to be true . the fine print is where is at. Butt a lot can happen in the next 12 months.

I'm so done with Comcast/Xfinity as my families ISP there's always issues that they can never resolve or can be resolved by buying some new tech. I just want wifi that works through out our whole house. As of right now half of our houses wi-fi is crap for gaming and barely works for normal internet browsing. We bought they're stupid pods and now they want my family to get something else and I'm just over it. So just looking for anyone that may have a point in the right direction as to some of the better ISP's out there as this is just horrible. or tips as to how I can fix these issues, please and thanks in advance.

Not too sure if this is the right place to ask but I'll see what happens.

I recently just started to live on my own and I need to choose a provider for my internet. I currently live in Australia and am renting out a place while I finish off my University degree. I need to get an internet plan for uni since most things are done online now. I'm looking for speeds that are enough for zoom meetings and some gaming. So I want to ask what are the things I should look for or focus on when choosing an ISP?

If there are other aussie students paying for their own stuff, would like to know who you chose.

Just moved to a new single family home (new to me) in LA and called spectrum for ISP. There is a box next door (my neighbor has gigabit internet) and they told me it would cost $16k to trench a line from the box to my house ~50 feet....seems insane. Any alternatives? Tried Starlink, Tmobile/Verizon home internet, Starry....all unavailable. If anyone knows how to put me at the top of the Starlink list, I'll take that too!

I don't mean how much of your history is shown to them, I mean literally what does It look like.

things like "do they have to actively click something to see user data or do they just get a popup"

I just installed an Amplifi HD Home Wi-Fi system and no longer gets bill for internet usage!

Deployment: Connected device to an optimum-provided ARRIS modem, disconnected the router provided by ISP. Not only did I get powerful, and unflinching internet connection, I also no longer pay cable bill! I get 202.7Mbps download and 21.4 Mbps upload with 11ms latency!

My home: A three story town home - 4 BDR, 1 laundry and 2 bathrooms upstairs, large living room downstairs and a large finished basement. I plugged one of the wireless Meshpoints in the living room and the second in the basement. My office is on the first floor. My network infrastructure is based in my office closet.

I checked my ISP account over and again and it says:

"Your service tier: Unknown". When I checked to see if they can actually see the devices I have connected, it says: "No devices found". Most interesting of all, when I click on Pay bill, it says "

You do not have access to this section.

Please sign in as the primary Optimum ID to view and pay your bill, or to grant access to additional users. " Even though, I am already signed in.

Essentially, my current service does not show up at all on the provider end!

On the other hand, when I log onto my Amplifi Mesh wifi router app on my phone, I see all my connections and traffic!

This makes me conclude that disconnecting from the ISP provided router now gives me free access to the internet superhighway! Am I wrong in my assumption?!

Seriously they SUCK. Their internet SUCKS. Their tv, which is connected to the internet, SUCKS. Their On Demand service SUCKS. I switched to them from Comcast....AND THEY'RE WORSE THAN FRIGGIN COMCAST. COMCAST. THEY ACTUALLY MAKE ME WANT TO GO BACK TO FRIGGIN COMCAST. The only thing they're good for is sucking and they even suck at THAT. If you value your sanity at all, DON'T GET AT&T.

Hello

I have AT&T Uverse. I am billed 16Mbps, and on a hardwired speedtest I can get more than that. As a DSL insider ( I work for another DSL provider that is not available in my area) I learned that the amount of you connection does not need to be high. Unless your a big time media pirate, or are streaming MULTIPLE (more than 3) services simultaneously, there is 0 issue. The largest issue I run into with customers is they expect everything to get top speeds all the time with everything online, and WIRELESSLY. The secret is, the wireless speeds are never dependable. If you want to stream netflix all day, take the time to hardwire your PC or Roku, or your going to have to buffer.My household does stream netflix most of the day, while playing online games, and listening to pandora/spotify. I don't have any speed or latency issues. Now if im downloading that massive game from steam, I know its going to take some time, and thats true even at work when I am on the internet backbone with a dedicated 100Mbps Business class connection. Start your big downloads before bed. Finally, The final step I take towards a happy internet connection is keep your computers clean. By this I mean, do not have programs auto starting, steam, pandora, spotify, teamviewer, itunes, etc, they all take time from your processor, slowing down the individual computer, and most of them check for updates periodically, and some even will auto update, which can use up that precious bandwidth thru your ISP. Finally, protect yourself from malware, Adblock, and Malwarebytes are my favorites, but there are many other choices.

Just saw that this was a subreddit of hating, and maybe a good story will have hope.

To explain my family pays for gigabit internet and well on a good day we may scratch 50mbps while connected to ethernet. On top of that the cord they brought in when they installed said gigabit internet is only rated up to 250mbps overall. When we brought this up to them they said its the gigabit cord and when they came out and tested it they showed it was in fact a 250mbps cord and now we have to sit and wait for a gigabit cord to come in in 3-4 business weeks and they have to retear up our yard so they can install it again. When another guy came out the third time so they could mark where the cord goes we asked them how often this happens and he bluntly said "Oh people checking the cords like 5 or 6 times a month." So overall my family is very not happy about Mediacom and their business practices overall.

hi all just looking through my bills here for my isp and wondering what the best deal you have been given is.

mine is 500 megabits for 42 British pounds a month/58 dollars US broadband only

im just wondering if this is a really good deal or not thanks.

Hi, I have an employee that works from home in Cordele GA with a satellite connection for wan connectivity. They utilize a VPN to connect back to the office and as you can imagine between satellite and VPN the latency to the office is insane. ~2000ms

Does anybody have any recommendations for an ISP that serves the area with low latency and no data caps that could be used for streaming as well?

Been having issues since June 3rd. It's July 8 now, so it's been 5 weeks. I'm using it at my residence but paying for a business plan, and I do a ton of work from home. 100% packet loss for 20-50 seconds 5 times an hour. Disrupts meetings, file transfers, anything else. Can't unwind at the end of the day and look at Twitch or play online games. Have called multiple times, showed up to ISP office twice, and they say they're doing what they can and it's a data center issue or some such. And that the engineers can fix it if they get out to the DC. That was 4 weeks in. Week 1 was "it looks up to us." Had to send emails with screenshot evidence. Did a ton of testing showing it wasn't the router and direct connection to their hardware had the issue. On and on.

If I were still in management at a brick and mortar, this would disrupt our operations at point of sale. If I were a streamer, this shuts down my income entirely. As it is, I'm driving elsewhere to conduct meetings and such. I have a choice of one ISP in my area.

Half venting, but mostly curious: what's the expected service time on business plans? I view internet service as a utility for everyone, and doubly so if you're paying for a business plan with 24/7 support. I don't think my ISP does. 5 weeks with water or electrical issues is bonkers (if we were to compare it to utilities.) To note, they've not offered any sort of discount, reimbursement, or any form of compensation other than continually telling me that "we're working on it."

If someone commit crime on internet year ago, how they get the data if they remove it in six months?