Well the jokes on them because now it has spread there too. I really
think that the uptick in real estate is due to summer normal and people
realizing they don't make enough money to live in what they have after
loosing an income in there household for some extended period of time.
In my household it has turned in to I can't buy a $7 hamburger now
because I need to be saving money to buy the next bigger house because
she isn't making as much any longer. I try to explain that a $7
hamburger a day only amounts to $2,500 a year so it doesn't
significantly amount to anything. That doesn't go over well though
On 8/7/2020 1:54 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
I also notice the real estate market is really hot right now.
I'm not sure if it's low mortgage rates, or people trying to move away from
Covid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umS3XM3xAPk
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Gee, move even farther out from the city and you will have to drill your own
well and put in a septic tank.
Even farther and you will be doing off grid solar and generators.
Even farther you will have to commute with a helicopter.
Never understood folks that move out into the country but expect city type
of infrastructure.
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From: Nate Burke
Sent: Friday, August 7, 2020 12:33 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Sports Streaming
I just had a guy this week move out of the city. 'I was getting 350mb for
what you want for 20mb, your price is too high'. I refused to move. He
signed up anyway. Normal user traffic pattern of <5mb/s.
On 8/7/2020 1:23 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
My latest challenge (and the kids aren't even back to school yet) is
people wanting more upstream. Because 3 people in the house are on
Zoom conferences, stuff like that. Or they are live streaming events
on Facebook.
The other thing, maybe a trend, I'm getting customers saying this
other WISP is advertising a higher speed or a lower price, and wanting
me to match it.
I think it's similar to Nate's problem, people are wanting to do more
things (like 3 simultaneous Zoom calls) and have more devices and
streaming services, but they don't want to pay more. So they shop
around, and want your steak to match a competitor's sizzle so they can
get more without paying more or doing any work.
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Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Sports Streaming
Yep, watched two partial baseball games in the last week.
The Houston/Arizona game had an odd audio artifact.
Sounded like they were broadcasting from inside a culvert.
It might have been a misguided effort to simulate crowd noise but it
was annoying.
No pixilation here. I love that the computer now not only shows the
strike zone, but sometimes it calls balls and strikes as well as
giving the speed.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nate Burke
Sent: Friday, August 7, 2020 11:26 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: [AFMUG] Sports Streaming
I've seen a big uptick in traffic over the last 2 or 3 weeks. Aren't
major sports starting up again? I'm guessing all the people who
switched to streaming only over the summer are now streaming the sports.
I've been dealing with one guy, he is on our lowest plan, and keeps
complaining that his sports are pixelated. And he's just gotta have
sports and just doesn't understand why it's not working perfect on his
4k TV. I can see he's maxed the connection 'My speed test is only
0.25mb and nothing in the house is running now, `still maxed traffic`,
well the TV is on'
I'm
guessing that the Variable bitrate codecs takes more for sports than
normal TV. I told him to upgrade his package, he said he didn't want
to spend any more money on Internet. He's on Hulu + live TV + Sports,
so that's already costing him more than what he's paying us, probably
close to what satellite costs. Then He wanted to know what TV to buy
to make it stream better, I told him that wouldn't help. Then he
wanted to know what WIFI extender to buy to make it stream better, I
told him that wouldn't help. But he's claims he is on a tight budget
and can't afford any more for internet. I told him to put up an
Antenna 'But then I can't get the sportsnet channel'
I told him to go find a new provider and stop calling me then. 'But
I don't like Comcast...' Tough, but I'm not talking to you anymore if
you're complaining about streaming. Priorities people have....
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