[Magdalen] A little IT help, please

[Christopher Hart]

Hi Gillian. Nice to "see" you. Have you met my former rector, Michael
Pearson, who retired to Rhode Island?

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 9:31 AM Gillian Barr <gillian.barr at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>


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