(18 now actually)

  • benignintervention@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    I knew a guy who did this with Comcast for every minute his Internet was out. He’d call them every day for weeks until they cut him an account credit

    • toynbee@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      I tried this in the first place I lived at where I paid for my own internet, which was Comcast at the time.

      They said (paraphrasing because it was a long time ago) their contract specified they were not responsible for any outages, nor any income lost due to same. I don’t know if that’s true, but I was young and naive and accepted it at face value.

      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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        14 days ago

        Outages are a thing of the past since I switched to 4G. If you asked me in 2010 if 4G of all things would be better than a wired connection I would never have believed it.

        It’s fast enough and never had an outage. Once in the past year I rotated the antenna to point at a different mast because it was being a little slow. I assume cell towers are a higher priority of infrastructure as they serve more people, and as there are multiple I can connect to there is also redundancy.