{"id":90178,"date":"2026-03-26T09:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T14:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90178"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:35:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T14:35:55","slug":"staying-connected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90178","title":{"rendered":"Staying Connected"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a Comcast customer since 1998 when I moved to The Cities. They recently jacked my rate to $103 per month.&nbsp; I called but there is no customer loyalty reward program so fine, I&#8217;ll switch to T-Mobile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That was a bust. It seems T-Mobile internet uses the same technology as my ordinary T-Mobile cell phone data plan, but somehow prioritizes ordinary cell phone data packets higher than internet data packets.&nbsp; In busy times, the internet lag was worse than dial-up.&nbsp; And that&#8217;s if the connection didn&#8217;t drop.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Makes me wonder about other options. What do SITD readers use for internet connection? How fast and how reliable is it?&nbsp; Anybody still using the telephone wires?&nbsp; Anybody using Elon&#8217;s satellites?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m a little curious myself. \u00a0 I&#8217;ve been on Comcast since &#8217;99, and given that I do so much work from home the speed and, yes, reliability is hard to argue with. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Starlink is JUST the wrong side of a viable option for me ATM. \u00a0But only just. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: I&#8217;m a little curious myself. \u00a0 I&#8217;ve been on Comcast since &#8217;99, and given that I do so much work from home the speed and, yes, reliability is hard to argue with. \u00a0 Starlink is JUST the wrong side of a viable option for me ATM. \u00a0But only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90180,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90178\/revisions\/90180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}