I get 1 to 2 bars out of 5 on my phone internet and get dropped from my home provider about 10 times a day.
Anyone else having connectivity issues? I'd heard anecdotally that with so many people cooped up and online, the systems are being overtaxed. I would have thought that there's more than enough capacity, but maybe not.
Per TV news, some state/local stimulus web sites, e.g. unemployment application, are overloaded, crashing. I don't know if that affects anything you are experiencing.
Mine, I think it is because my computer, modem, and router are old, I'm having to do "Mr.C" about every other day (something like re-booting). But the speed of things loading and displaying is fast. I still have Windows 7, an HP computer that is long out of warrenty. Comcast wants me to purchase ($14 per month) their modem/router. So I just keep mine on life support (me and Mr. C).
Phone is an old flip phone for which I get regularly laughed at, but I like it just fine. Not connected to the Internet.
No, but I am.
Mine runs like it always does.
Rural Coorporative Fiber 50 Mbps
Sprint Mobile 125 Mbps
Yes, my mobile provider's Internet is more than twice as fast as my fiber optic cable. I use my phone's hotspot whenever possible. The Cooperative rations and charges for bandwidth like it is liquid gold.
Use this to check your speed.
Poor old DonDiego's internet is running jes' fine, . . . faster than he can keep up with, as usual.
The only time he's ever had a noticeable reduction in internet-speed is on the Fall weekend of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing "NASCAR Cup" race in Bristol, Tennessee.. Tens-of-thousands of tourists flood the region and use up all the electrons flowing through the wires in Northeastern Tennessee. There's hardly any left for the locals.
I've read on many news and tech websites and from some individual users that home internet has become noticeably slower for many people. The reason given was that people who were staying home were consuming unusual amounts of bandwidth watching Netflix etc. and also doing lengthy video conferencing from home for business and school.
I've experienced the opposite. Without any notification or price increase from Comcast, my maximum bandwidth has jumped from 50mps down/12mps up before the stay at home order to 80/18 as measured by a speedtest.
I think Comcast in anticipating greater internet use decided to increase bandwidth to its nodes to meet the anticipated demand. For my neighborhood node, this apparently wasn't necessary, but I'm not complaining.
Comcast/Xfinity has also made its hotspots free to everyone for a couple of months. Their hotspots appear as "xfinity" on the list of available Wi-Fi networks. These hotspots had only been free for Xfinity cable internet customers or with a paid service plan for non-customers. There are thousands of these hotspots.
I also have Comcast and have had no internet issues.
I've gotten dropped about four times in the last week which is very unusual. Disconnecting and reconnecting fixed it every time. But living in an almost all-Alexa condo, including lights, switches, fans, and robot vacuum, it can be inconvenient.
