[Magdalen] A little IT help, please

[Gillian Barr]

Lots of churches had this problem on Sunday according to the chatter on
Episcopal Communicators. We were thinking that no one at  ISPs anticipated
Sunday at 9-11 as being a time of high demand and every church in America
trying to livestream simultaneously.


Gillian
Looking in from lurkdom

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 12:34 PM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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*
>
-- 
Gillian R. Barr
Providence, RI