So, this might be the last time I post so often (unless something else major happens that’s worth blogging about).
Yesterday was ‘fun’ of dealing with that incompetent tech person. Today, was a complete 180. However it wasn’t exactly perfect. I had to ask here and there on the status (if they found the culprit. Was hoping they would just tell me without having to ask).
Turns out, the original installer (the old guy who wanted us to move furniture for Spectrum TV and Phone service), what happened with the slow download internet
speed… it wasn’t his fault afterall. I also learned something else, but I’ll leave it for the end of this segment.
He checked the lines on the pole, everything’s good; no problems. He checked the box the line connects to the house, he didn’t find the problem but he did find what was left from the tech guy who replaced the main line to the house (when I was dealing with those disconnect issues).
So all there was left, was something in the house. He went in, did his tests on the cable going into the modem.. no problems. What the hell?? So it’s not a problem with the line at all. It wasn’t good, and made zero sense.
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Then he said to try a speed test, so I did. Again it showed at 80-90Mbps. He did a power cycle and told me to try it again, same thing. He swapped ethernet cables, same thing. He looked at me as the test finished, and I saw something very disturbing… my Wifi’s showing the full speed, yet my computer isn’t.
He said “at this time I haven’t a clue. Seems it might be something in your computer. What we could try is replacing the ethernet cable to your computer.” I was up for anything, and he replaced it. …This was it. This is literally all he could do.
I did the final speed test. We watched the numbers. It started at that 80-90. Then just as it was about to hit the halfway point of its test.. it suddenly jumped to 100, to 200, to 300 and kept climbing (as if my high speed connection was coming back to life). “HOLY FUCK!!” I said. The test completed, showing 323Mbps. But the tech guy did not like the upload speed’s apparent degeneration.
We did the test again: 450Mbps down, 11Mbps up. “Your router might be failing. Sadly I have no replacements in the truck” he said. He also said it might not even be on my
end, that it could be something happening over with Spectrum itself. Hmm.. possible. I dunno, all I do know is I got my download speed back to what it was! 😃
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But all of this fucking time… it was the ethernet cable from the router to my computer that was the culprit. Just, wow. Who knows just how long that’s been happening, and never noticing it until last Wednesday from when YouTube and all those other services were partially going belly-up from DDoS attacks.
Though, my ISP can’t go that far deep with their testing. All they can do is test the line from their offices to the pole. Any further testing requires a tech person, who repaired the problem by replacing a faulty ethernet cable.
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I just did another speed test.. it feels like sex with how quickly the download speed SNAPS to 400Mbps (to where each time I’m almost hitting 500), but it also shows my upload speed is still going down. However I don’t really upload much, so that’s not a huge issue that I’ll need another tech guy out here to give me a replacement router (unless it becomes one in the future).
A good example is using my website to backup a hard drive’s contents before it fails, and it taking abnormally slow to do so. Hopefully that’ll never happen, but this is just one example of needing this taken care of. The upload speed isn’t as necessary as download. Download is 98% of what I typically do (getting into new worlds in VRChat, making sure the game knows where my position is at all times, etc). So yeah.
Dunno what else to say. Glad it’s fixed now.. still can’t believe that of all things was the issue. It even stunned him, never seeing this issue happen before.
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So, the other thing I mentioned, as the guy was setting up to check the lines of my connection, he checked his work orders and then asked me “so we’re not installing TV?”
For the unteenth time I explained about the original installer, and the furniture. I then asked the guy that if we cancelled DirecTV and then switched, would Spectrum be able to use the same lines instead of having to run new ones.
He said “it depends on the installer”… as if he could still do this for us. Hmm. As he checked my signal, I asked him more about it and he started looking around our house’s exterior for any lines DirecTV did, but couldn’t really figure it out.
After I got my speed back, he told me something else. Apparently (and this has to be a new thing), they aren’t authorized to move furniture. Reason being, is if something
breaks, they would be liable for it. So, it’s ‘simply business’. Yet before this whole COVID crap a few years ago, they did move furniture out of the way. So I say it’s half COVID and half what the person said.
I had the guy talk to my mother about this, and then the guy went over a few
alternatives; both of them involved having only one cable box instead of the three we were going to have, and then having ‘Roku’ boxes where my parents can stream TV. The other one involved not having DVR.
He said it “would save us a lot of money” of either option, but my technophobe mother turned down this with “that sounds too difficult to learn”. ..Oy. Think of the savings though.. for you! Not having to pay DirecTV $300. But nooo.., she doesn’t want to learn new things. 🙄 “Just leave things as they are” she says.
Well whatever. I better not hear her bitch about how DirecTV is screwing her then. I tried to help, she doesn’t want to use it.
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Why do I keep giving him chances?
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“Who’s him” you ask? It’s definitely, without question.. not Jero (as there’s nothing I can do that will change his mind, I’ve given up a long time ago). It is Fluffy. Yes, the Fluffy attempting to ruin all of his friendships for an unknown reason. But now the reason is known and hopefully he’ll be on the road to cleaning up his act.
Something happened last night when trying to be with Novice (one of my cuddle buddies). But I’ll spare you the details. Only that Fluffy was there, and I did my best to get the hell out of there before drama started.
Today I decided to unblock Fluffy in Telegram, and have him answer a ‘simple’
question; “are you AvoliJack?” and asked him to be honest with me and showing the evidence Larry shared with me. “yes…that was me… its an alt avoli was never real… I only made that account to get a second act in saying what I have to say because people are people” was his response. So now we have confirmation. Thank you for your
honesty (unlike Jero 😑).
As to why he spewed hate and lies with this account, he said it was what Larry said about trying to snap sense into him about the lewdness. Ahh.. it makes sense now! I never even thought this was the reason he snapped (thought it happened a long time ago).
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So, I had a very, very long talk with him about his behavior, staying as calm as I can. And let’s just hope this time he’ll cut back on the lewdness, and not try to give his body to anyone that will take him. He gave the reason as being a very understanding one; to relax and stuff. I feel that too, but there is a time and place, and you don’t go up to random people and say “hey, wanna have SEX?!”
He understands this, and like I said before.. let’s hope it actually sticks. To ’empower’ him to change, I made it where I’ll unblock him if he promises to change (which he has), and I don’t want to have to block him again for going back on his promise. I made this come from the heart to where he can feel the pain I’ll feel of having to permablock him.
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I also mentioned the actual reason why I blocked him. He remembered, and said how the day keeps haunting him. That is good, because I do NOT wanna deal with this (or anything similar) shit again from anyone. If I see another bloody knife, I’m sending it to Kovo and Wufy instead of assuming the person actually stabbed themself.
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2020 recap post near New Years Day
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With 2020, possibly the worst year of the 21st century (mainly due to a virus), almost
over, there will be a few things to be looking forward to by the day before New Year’s Eve.
The first is a post in here (the General blog), featuring a recap of 2020 (what I’ve experienced). Yes it’ll likely be about Jero, and COVID among other things (and why it seems I’ll never truly learn from my biggest mistakes).
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The second, something I didn’t do last year that I might not even do this year: the ‘top 10 games I’ve played’ of the year in the Games blog. The reason is, well, you’ve seen how inactive I’ve been with the blog posts.
And if I do decide to do it, it’ll be a mixture of VR games (aka Half-Life: Alyx, AUDICA, Vacation Simulator) and PC games (Monster Hunter: World, Destiny 2, Borderlands 3, Tower Unite, and others). So, I dunno. We’ll see.
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Stay tuned for this, and have a good week. 👋🙂 I hope to have one.