This weekend will forever be known as the great internet outage of 2018. My DSL went down and the provider ended up thinking its my router. Problem is my DLS goes down on average 3 times a day. I have the up and down notification emails to prove it. The provider is highly rated and I like them for their no filtering and no throttling approach to internet providing. The issue is this constant mini outages. Usually lasting a few minutes. This time it has been down for a day. It looks like it will be down till at least tomorrow when my new router shows up.
This incident has finally gotten me to decide to switch providers and sign up for Virgin. Two other families on my block have it and say the speed is pretty good. Reviews say depending on the block you may be good or bad. I opted for the high end 300+meg plan. It only has about 25mb upload but that is around what i get with DSL. On DSL my download is theoretical maximum of 70 something mb. This change should be significant. I am also happy since i didn’t realize i have a virgin cable jack already installed right by my media center where the BT jack is in the entry to my house and thus everything is a wireless connection.
I have about a month left on my DLS contract. If i cannot cancel it before the contract runs out the one month extra cost will be worth it to have a stable connection. M is suffering with a data connection on her phone and no iPad. I at least have some data on my ipad. I had to get some work done earlier and had to tether my laptop to my mobile.