so since forever and always ive been stuck with 350 kb/s internet. if you have it worse and want to complain, whatever, but honestly i could care less and heres why.
im pretty used to the really slow internet speed, i mean after all i've been living with it my whole life. but things get extremely annoying when it comes to other people in my house. my families favorite thing to do is netflix. oh boy from 11:00 am to 12:00 am there is at least one person in this house watching netflix. whether its my brother, my mom, or my dad. me personally, i don't care for netflix, but because of what i'm about to tell you, i hate netflix with a pure passion.
as soon as someone jumps on netflix, i might as well sit back and grab myself a martini, because it shuts off whatever im doing for at least 10 minutes while netflix super freaking rocket streams the beginning of what their watching. that means i can't browse the web, can't play a multiplayer game, and i can't hear my friends over voice chat. As soon as it calms down, i'm still stuck with slower internet. if i'm playing a game, it idles between 170 to 350 ping. this only bothers me slightly because when im playing a game i know how to aim ahead of time so my internet catches up. what pisses me off though is that it jumps in random patterns, from 600 to over a thousand ping. i have to keep the stupid net graph always on when i'm playing blockland or left 4 dead just so i know when im getting latency jumps. and i can't always pay attention.
people have given me countless half-assed solutions and a lot of them consist of telling me to limit everyone else's connection or make mine better. thats not an option for two reasons.
1. i'm not paying for the internet. as soon as someone finds out i'm limiting their connection and their poor netflix starts to buffer, its instantly my fault and i have to stop using the internet so they can watch netflix.
2. my modem/router doesn't even support it. i looked it up and those "settings" that it offers likes QoS are not comparable to other routers settings and are essentially just there to make people think they offer it (basically its fake and it does nothing).
your other solution would to be to get a different service.
- i live in a pretty rural area and this is the only internet service available in this area
- my isp does provide a better service but we can't get it because they would have to replace the phone lines or something and they're underground so basically they said screw it no way.
what about moving? i wish. but i don't think were moving any time soon and it'd be nice to just be able to just not have to freaking deal with this garbage while im still a teenager and don't grow tired of playing games because ill be busy with bills and taxes and other adult stuff.
if you have anything similar feel free to share maybe we can just go punch people together
