[Magdalen] A little IT help, please

[Grace Cangialosi]

I think I'm limited to this one provider.  I tried to get something else a
couple of years ago for another reason and was told that this is my only
option.  My daughter lives about five miles from me, and they have two
options.
I refuse to buy a dish, and we don't have cable where I live.  At least I
don't have to have dial-up.  And at least I have wifi; many areas in our
county don't.

I'm going to head over to the library parking lot in a little while.
xfinity has just published all the hotspots in the area where you can
access their service for free, so there is hope!

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 11:09 AM Chad Wohlers <chad at satucket.com> wrote:

> It might also help to complain to your provider and mention that X
> provider at your daughter's gives much better service.
>
> In my experience, internet problems are usually a problem with the ISP,
> not you. Although of late, something in Lee's Chromebook floods our
> connection with traffic and won't let go.
>
> Other than that, so far, so good up here in the wilds of Vermont.
>
> --
> Chad Wohlers
> chad at satucket.com
> Woodbury, VT   USA
>
>
>
> On 3/23/2020 10:31 AM, Brian Reid wrote:
> > You will keep having this problem unless your ISP changes its traffic
> > shaping policies, which is unlikely to happen given the huge increase
> > in home internet usage because COVID-19.
> >
> > On 2020-03-23 5:23 am, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
> >> Thanks, Brian—I’ll try that. Does this mean I’ll keep having this
> >> problem from now on, or is it likely to be intermittent? Now that I
> >> think about it, my computer does seem to be faster at my daughter’s
> >> than at my house; she has a different provider. I just figured it was
> >> my laptop.
>
>

-- 
Grace Cangialosi
Ruckersville, VA

*"Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great
love."*
*St. Teresa of Calcutta*