New-to-me ISP
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Back in June, I posted that I was thinking of changing providers, because Visi (aka OneNeck) is restricted to copper, and maxes out at 3 Mbps, and my service was actually closer to half that.
I ended up going for the simplest solution: at the Minnesota State Fair, I stopped at the CenturyLink booth and signed up to have my Internet come directly through CenturyLink instead of via Visi. What with all the discounts and promotions, my phone bill will drop about $30/month for the next six months, then for 18 months thereafter will go back to what I had been paying before the switchover. This is still a savings, because I won't need to pay the $20/month I've been paying Visi all this time.
For the moment, at least, I'll be keeping my e-mail at Visi, which they provide for $5/month. I have the moebiusfibers.com domain, but my plan has been to keep that as a business address. If I can come up with a good and available domain name, I'll go for it.
The switchover was fairly painless -- yesterday, my router stopped connecting to the Internet. I opened the box with the new router, and hooked it up. I had to call CenturyLink tech support to finish the setup, but once that was taken care of, all went well. I was mildly surprised that my wireless devices (iPhone and iPad) didn't require me to log in again, even though I used the same network name and password.
My download speed is now 8 to 10 times faster than it was before. It doesn't make much of a difference for web browsing, because the antivirus seems to be the main bottleneck, but it's huge for download, and presumably will also be for Netflix-type streaming.
Back in June, I posted that I was thinking of changing providers, because Visi (aka OneNeck) is restricted to copper, and maxes out at 3 Mbps, and my service was actually closer to half that.
I ended up going for the simplest solution: at the Minnesota State Fair, I stopped at the CenturyLink booth and signed up to have my Internet come directly through CenturyLink instead of via Visi. What with all the discounts and promotions, my phone bill will drop about $30/month for the next six months, then for 18 months thereafter will go back to what I had been paying before the switchover. This is still a savings, because I won't need to pay the $20/month I've been paying Visi all this time.
For the moment, at least, I'll be keeping my e-mail at Visi, which they provide for $5/month. I have the moebiusfibers.com domain, but my plan has been to keep that as a business address. If I can come up with a good and available domain name, I'll go for it.
The switchover was fairly painless -- yesterday, my router stopped connecting to the Internet. I opened the box with the new router, and hooked it up. I had to call CenturyLink tech support to finish the setup, but once that was taken care of, all went well. I was mildly surprised that my wireless devices (iPhone and iPad) didn't require me to log in again, even though I used the same network name and password.
My download speed is now 8 to 10 times faster than it was before. It doesn't make much of a difference for web browsing, because the antivirus seems to be the main bottleneck, but it's huge for download, and presumably will also be for Netflix-type streaming.
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Date: 2014-09-05 06:04 pm (UTC)What makes you think your antivirus software is a bottleneck? That's an alarming prospect. What antivirus do you have?