Wasn’t a miracle. By 8:50 it’s back down to 5 Mb/s
I’ve got an 800 number to get me to the “home internet” team, so I’ll try that when I get home in a couple hours.Last night, from around 7 pm til sometime after 9 pm, the home internet was non-functional. Computers and cell phones couldn’t even connect to it. The couple times I DID get the computer to connect download speeds were in the .5 Mb/s (not 5, .5)…We COULD, in theory, be in some kind of dead zone, but I’m getting different answers from different tools. Cellmapper insists I’m using the tower across the river (East), which is at MOST ¼ mile away. And we’re slightly uphill from downtown, so it should be seeing us perfectly. Network Call Info Lite (NCIL) says we’re using a tower straight South that’s about 5 or 6 blocks - maximum ½ mile. OR, about 7:30 it started saying we’re using a tower that’s less than 2 blocks - literally down the street. We have clear line of sight to all of them.This morning, using the speed test in NCIL, from the cell phone I got about 16 Mb/s. Usi
I’m not sure what the home Internet does as far as priority, but it MOSTLY runs about the same speeds as either of the S22s. But, this evening, the Home Internet totally tanked. There was a period where you couldn’t even connect to it. At the moment, my S22 is getting about 34 Mb/s. The HI is getting just over 3 Mb/s… So there must be something going on, I just don’t know enough to know what it is.BUT, we hadn’t originally planned to get the Home Internet, so if I can’t get some kind of resolution from the “home internet” support people tomorrow it’ll go back and we’ll stay with the 15-year-old DSL that only gets 20 Mb/s, but reliably does about 15, which is adequate for what we use it for…
I’m very new to cellmapper, and can’t run it on any of the actual computers because it insists I’m using an ad blocker. Even when I turn off ALL the extensions in Firefox or Chrome it still complains. So, it’s not very useful on the computer. It SHOWS three towers nearby, but nothing about which one would be used here, or anything else.Thus, I ran it on the cell phone.BTW: At the moment, the desktop is getting somewhere between .5 Mb/s (yes, 500k) and 2.1 Mb/s. The cell phone has dropped out of 5G and it got 3.9 Mb/s a minute ago.As far as 4G or 5G or whatever, I don’t know what it’s showing. In the home internet app, I can see devices connected (or could, before things turned to *&^%$ a little while ago), and the netword STILL says the connection is “Excellent”. I have no idea what PCI is, or how to relate any metrics - are you talking about the stuff in the “more” tab? If so, which ones?At the moment, there’s not even enough bandwidth available to SEND this entry. I had t
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