WoW BHA Monday Night Crew - Ruby Sanctum Tonight 12/6! Farewell to WotLK

O M G That little puppy is SOOOOOOOOO freaking cute. I am going to come puppynap her! She looks so ornry (sp?), you are going to have your hands full!

Cause I am that freak that looks in backgrounds of picture, is that your son on the mantle?

This thread being dead makes me sad. At least we did win WoW!

Cheeto1016 wrote:

Cause I am that freak that looks in backgrounds of picture, is that your son on the mantle?

That's him, but its from nearly a year ago. Gosh time flies!

Cheeto1016 wrote:

This thread being dead makes me sad.

Ya, me too. It was a hell of an awesome time.

You guys going to be around tonight? We should try and get some of the new 80s through Ony or OS tonight. Maybe like an 8:00 server start time.

I could be on

Yeah, let's take those n00bs through stuff.

>.>

Possibly. AT&T is coming back today, and if they actually fix things I'll probably be in. If not, though, man am I just tired as hell of trying to play and having 30 second hiccups interrupt things all the time, so I might just let my blood pressure stay low instead tonight.

*Bump*
Tonight @ 7:30-8:00 I'll be starting a short raid for either Ony or OS-3D. We'll decide which later.
Post your interest here, otherwise just show up and bug me sometime tonight.
If we don't get enough of the newer 80s involved, I'll likely cancel. If we get at least two peeps that have not seen these fights I'll make it happen though.

zeroKFE wrote:

Possibly. AT&T is coming back today, and if they actually fix things I'll probably be in. If not, though, man am I just tired as hell of trying to play and having 30 second hiccups interrupt things all the time, so I might just let my blood pressure stay low instead tonight.

Welcome to my world the last couple of years. Crappy internet sucks.

Yeah -- very thankful that I do have a few decent options in case they continue to fail to fix things.

Throw me and my 6 pack of bud light down for onyxia!

I wonder if I can drink all 6 by the time we kill her? I smell a challange!

Cheeto1016 wrote:

Throw me and my 6 pack of watered down bunny piss down for onyxia!

I wonder if I can drink all 6 by the time we kill her? I smell a challange!

FTFY

ELewis17 wrote:
Cheeto1016 wrote:

Throw me and my 6 pack of watered down bunny piss down for onyxia!

I wonder if I can drink all 6 by the time we kill her? I smell a challange!

FTFY :lol:

Okay Jake.

Cheeto1016 wrote:

Okay Jake.

Wait. So the guy that cries on roller coasters drinks man beer? I find that quite amusing.

No fix for the DSL today. I may log on anyway, but that will probably depend on how frustrating the rest of my work day ends up being.

zeroKFE wrote:

No fix for the DSL today. I may log on anyway, but that will probably depend on how frustrating the rest of my work day ends up being. ;)

I like how you carefully step over our little flame war above like a turd on the sidewalk.

You sir have a lot more patience than me. two weeks of poor performance without a solid solution and I'm off to another provider. Though everyone in my house relies on my internet for entertainment. No streaming Netflix is bad news at my place.

zeroKFE wrote:

No fix for the DSL today. I may log on anyway, but that will probably depend on how frustrating the rest of my work day ends up being. ;)

What did they say? I am confused as to how they have no fix when it did not used to do it? I agree with ELewis, it may be time to switch providers if that option exists.

The problem is either in their switch/repeater box a few blocks away or in the copper in the street. The reason there was no fix today is that in order to narrow down the location of the problem further they need to dig up my sidewalk and access the interconnect where my copper peels off from the main line, but in order to dig up the sidewalk (which is city property) they need to do two plus days worth of permitting and coordination with the other utilities.

I am confused as to how they have no fix when it did not used to do it?

Well, looking back the problem has probably existed since the middle of the summer when we moved in -- I had noticed it what felt like once or twice a week up until two weeks ago, but just chalked it up to our distance from the main office -- but whatever was wrong was probably exacerbated by the recent change in weather.

You sir have a lot more patience than me. two weeks of poor performance without a solid solution and I'm off to another provider. Though everyone in my house relies on my internet for entertainment. No streaming Netflix is bad news at my place.

Oh, believe me, we do too. Thankfully, the problem has a much less pronounced effect on Netflix streaming since the disconnects only last about 30 seconds or so, and generally the Xbox Netflix client buffers up enough to ride out the storm. But of course 30 seconds is more than enough to wipe a raid, and often enough to force you to re-log, so the problem probably affects me the most at the moment (since Luna isn't actively playing any online shooters right now).

As for why I haven't jumped ships on AT&T, well, the other options are Comcast cable, Sprint 4G wireless, and AT&T's new fiber service. Cable would be the easy fix, but we don't have nor do we want a paid TV service (we have over the air HD broadcasts, the internet, and Netflix, after all ) and so the pricing would be bullsh*t. The Sprint 4G coverage in our area is supposed to be pretty decent, but the speeds available are worse than our DSL, the price is high, and the nature of wireless networking is generally not great for gaming.

Finally, the AT&T fiber service (which we will probably switch to at some point anyway) runs through the same hardware and copper that our DSL does now, so we'd have to wait for the problem to be repaired anyway. (The service you might be seeing them advertise is actually just fiber to the switching box in a given neighborhood, and the existing copper for the last mile or so, rather than a true fiber to the curb service -- the real difference comes in with the end points being technology that can make better use of that networking infrastructure.)

So yeah, the networking that has the problems is the networking that supports the two internet access solutions that suit our needs the best, hence the out of the ordinary level of patience with their less than stellar response to the problem. We do have viable alternatives, just not better/cheaper ones.

I am sorry Zero That sounds like a big pain in the butt! I hope they are at least doing something for you for the inconvenience.

Does not charging me for the repairs count?

zeroKFE wrote:

and the nature of wireless networking is generally not great for gaming.

I'm your control test case... don't do it.

zeroKFE wrote:

and so the pricing would be bullsh*t

It is out of this world, but is is fast and reliable. I have the second tier "package" (Speed-Boost Powerman5000 with Orajel and KY Jelly, IIRC) and I can stream to two TVs (one "HD", one not) download a game through Steam and play WoW without noticing too much degradation. It is damn expensive though. I think I pay like $90/month just for internet now that the six month promo deal ran out. It's Comcastically expensive!

ELewis17 wrote:
zeroKFE wrote:

and so the pricing would be bullsh*t

It is out of this world, but is is fast and reliable. I have the second tier "package" (Speed-Boost Powerman5000 with Orajel and KY Jelly, IIRC) and I can stream to two TVs (one "HD", one not) download a game through Steam and play WoW without noticing too much degradation. It is damn expensive though. I think I pay like $90/month just for internet now that the six month promo deal ran out. It's Comcastically expensive!

And now comcast is blocking netflix, grats =)

I, too, use cable. I pay $60 a month for 15 megs down and .75 up. As much as I loathe Time Warner (and I do quite a bit), I have been happy with this.

oilypenguin wrote:

And now comcast is blocking netflix, grats =)

Huh? Please elaborate.

ELewis17 wrote:
oilypenguin wrote:

And now comcast is blocking netflix, grats =)

Huh? Please elaborate.

K. I don't know if this is a real thing but the twitters are all atwitter with it (see what I did there?)

Oo. This too.

Damn, those are ridiculous prices, especially compared to AT&T's offerings. My 6 Mbps/700 Kbps DSL goes for $25 a month normally, but I have it a bit lower because I regularly have them put me on year long contracts, and the advertised price on AT&T's 12 Mbps/1.5 Mbps fiber service (the best they can offer to my location) is $45 a month outside of bundling/promotions.

As for what Comcast would charge outside of bundling with TV service, they won't give exactly numbers for pricing after their six month $30 intro period, but they give a price range of $55 to $70 for their highest level of service (6 Mbps/ ? Mbps that bursts to 20 Mbps for the first 20 MB of any given file transfer, just long enough to screw with streaming video bandwidth detection algorithms, but hey, it's a feature!) depending on your location. So yeah, not quite as onerous as what you guys are being charged, but jam packed with consumer un-firendly terms, conditions, pricing traps, service loopholes, and marketing bullsh*t (like advertising a 6 Mbps line that bursts to 20 Mbps for about 30 seconds of every connection simply as "speeds up to 20 Mbps").

Yeah, AT&T's customer service may leave a bit to be desired, but the cable companies are about an order of magnitude more evil when it comes to their business practices.

That'll last about as long as ReadlID showing your real name.

I can get a dry pair to my office for like $600 + a nominal monthly fee and just feed off the T1 here, if the internet apocalypse really has begun.

zeroKFE wrote:

Yeah, AT&T's customer service may leave a bit to be desired, but the cable companies are about an order of magnitude more evil when it comes to their business practices. ;)

Sam Wyly may disagree

zeroKFE wrote:

Yeah, AT&T's customer service may leave a bit to be desired, but the cable companies are about an order of magnitude more evil when it comes to their business practices. ;)

Yeah, AT&T has been giving me a great deal on my DSL. For some reason I'm ending up being credited ~$8 a month for my current DSL connection.

I'm not mentioning it to them.

All this technology talk that I have no idea what you speak of! Jake and I have WoW internet to play WoW on. It is 40 bucks a month and I have only had 1 problem, which they fixed the next day and credited us. Jake does call about every 6 months and threaten to go to time warner to keep us getting the low price though.