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Gustaphos

    After having a weekend of pings from 220 to 1000ms and packet drops as high as 25% while playing a few games (should of stopped after the first one) and making sure my "house" was in order (reset cable box, router, turn off all wireless devices hooked to the router, scan for viruses, etc etc.) I am really sick of time warner cable monopoly and not being able to run any other ISP from my neighborhood.

    https://fiber.google.com/cities/kansascity/?addr_id=AD1146895808

    Cant wait until June 20th........... to pay $30 less than what I do now for time warner cable and have 20x the speed. Been an issue off and on with them and had several "technicians" come out to my house to troubleshoot line quality and packet drops.

    Totally couldn't last hit to save my life sunday it was the worst. I would see spells happen over a second later and would wipe me out. Sent some hate mail to time warner cable after being upset with their service so long.

    3 months can't come soon enough!

    EDIT: IDK how some people with high pings play this it is beyond me. Kudos for KawaiiSocks playing in sub-optimal situations and still maintaining a high ranking.

    I even tried plugging my cable modem directly into my pc last night and still was poop. I played a game of Left For Dead 2 just to make sure it wasn't Dota 2 acting up and I was getting pings in the same area. Couldn't shoot a zombie for the life of me.

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    King of Low Prio

      Что ты гонишь?

      Gustaphos

        Потому что, я плачу кучу денег за услугу, которая не работает: (

        Because, I pay a ton of money for a service that is not working :(

        Silly sampson, tricks are for kids.

        epsik-kun

          100$/month for 50 mb/s with 25% packet losses? Wow. And I thought, Internet-provider I was working for was terrible.

          PS Could someone tell me, how should I put commas in such sentences?

          Vaeldiithia

            I thought I have to replace something in my pc then after weeks of unplayable dota i figured closing facebook while playing solves all my issues... :D still if i forget about it and have fb opened in background, i have terrible laggs (screen stops for 2 seconds every 2 second and also does the voice). probably its not your case but wanted to share maybe someone else has similar issues.

            Goldieee

              i cant connect to servers when facebook is running :D strange shit. cant understand. but yea. i have to close fb before 10/10

              King of Low Prio

                убой их семей и украсть их землю. Интернет жизнь и жизнь есть война.

                Delete所有选择

                  Holy shit that looks good.

                  Wink

                    I use rogers internet... most unstable fucking ISP ever. id have super good internet for a few hours, and then BAM during a teamfight no internet at all. i want OUUUUUT. shame this isnt in canada yet :/

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                    Gustaphos

                      @ Sampson...

                      slaughter of their families and steal their land. Internet life and life is war

                      You are silly what the heck?

                      @ Wink

                      Yeah when I used to travel I think rogers internet is like your version of AT&T in canada. Not that fabulous in my experience when I had to use it in Winnipeg and Thunder Bay.

                      @ Vaeldiithia

                      Ok......... this is interesting.......... while I do not use face book, my wife uses it from her phone and probably left the app up. I wonder if it has the same results even though it is on a different device while I was playing. I will have to check this out.

                      @ Epsik

                      Commas in sentences? You're doing it! :O I don't understand :(

                      epsik-kun

                        Thing is, I don't quite get, how to use commas in English language. For example, these two sentences were written, using punctuation rules of my native language, which are pretty strict about this stuff and don't allow you to choose: to put comma or not to put. But I think, they are overloaded with commas so I just take like half of them away.
                        Well, I'm sure happy if I'm doing it ok.

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                        King of Low Prio

                          Ooo god someone mentioned Winnipeg........................it is hell here atm

                          Dire Wolf

                            My ping would spike all the time, swapped out my wrtg54 router for a newer N one by dlink. Working fine now. Kinda weird, those routers are supposed to survive the apocalypse, everyone swears by them.

                            Gustaphos

                              @ Sampson

                              Why? Weather is bad? It just started snowing here in Kansas City after lunch. I am surprised it is snowing this heavy for being in spring, granted we did have one big heavy snowfall in May 2nd last year. Global warming is not working out like Al Gore said. BTW your pic showed you on a back porch in the sun. Did you have to photoshop the snow outta there ;)

                              @ Wookie

                              Well.......... I swapped my old WRT54 a year ago with a dlink wireless N last year, but still the same issues. I ended up re-wiring my cable modem direct to my PC last night and made no difference so I'm 100% sure it was Time Warner Cable being useless. I <3 cable help desk peoples usual troubleshooting fixes:

                              1. Scan your pc for viruses (duh high school dropout done that)
                              2. Reset your router/modem (duh high school dropout)
                              3. Disconnect all other wireless devices in the house (wow genius....)
                              4. Plug your PC direct into the cable modem. (Advanced thinking here folks)
                              5. Replace your cable modem at a Time warner cable store (FFS 5th time in a year and doesn't help people.........)

                              I even replaced all the copper wiring in my house when I got it and old COAX cabling. They've switched the line from one pole on one side of the house and to the opposite side, I even bought grounding wiring for them and still didn't help years ago.

                              Dire Wolf

                                Jesus sounds terrible. Too many people watching porn in your neighboorhood probably lol. Does downloading a new config file (ie factory resetting the modem, not just rebooting it) help at all? Seems like if you swap modems then no. Also what modem is it? Same model every time? Did you lookup online reviews of it? Maybe that brand just blows, you can buy your own as long as it's cable company approved and they'll not charge you the equipment fee. That's probably not the problem but just saying.

                                And yeah internet and tv monopolies need to be broken up. The supreme court internet content restriction cases are so stupid too. We're gonna be like china before you know it when these companies straight up censor.

                                King of Low Prio

                                  That pic was when I was in Bermuda.....

                                  sano

                                    i'm fine here in rio playing soccer in the street with monkeys, what about you sampson

                                    Gustaphos

                                      @ Wookie

                                      Yeah I'll have to look up the model # but they only have 1 model for the higher pay internet from TWC. So I don't think it'll help much. Yes I've reloaded the config file for my router/cable box already. I think its a motorolla something IDK I'm at work so I can't remember. I just keep telling myself "3 more months! 3 more months!" Heres what it is I found it, its a motorola surfboard B26 something... I''m not going to buy my own since just 3 more months it shouldn't be an issue due to the switch I'll finally have after 7 years of hit or miss Time Warner cable:

                                      Well it was sunday night so maybe a lot of you but I'm going to try having facebook on for my wifes phone and my phone and lock the phones to see if it does affect it which I doubt but worth a shot. I may just end up playing the PS3 for a bit and catch up on some GTA V if it isn't cleared up by the time I get back home.

                                      Yeah Wookie you know that Time warner cable and COMCAST are combining here soon so they will have an even bigger monopoly on the market after the merger.

                                      @ Sampson.

                                      Only been to 3rd world Bermuda for work. I.E. Puerto Rico. Would not advise going there for vacation it is not that great looking.

                                      BoJack

                                        lmao u niggers live in first world country and i have better internet than u in slum-city rio de janeiro :p

                                        Gustaphos

                                          Agreed. I will be first world in 3 months I hope.

                                          Atum, you can come down to downtown Kansas City and scream that "N" word out at 18th and Vine. I will pay $1,000 dollars and a plane ticket if you do it for 15 minutes. I call it "internet survivor". All contestants never get paid and leave home in a body bag smelling of their own urine and feces.

                                          BoJack

                                            $1,000? do i look like a nigger to you homie?

                                            sano

                                              there's so much violence in USA, i'm glad I live in brazil

                                              Gustaphos

                                                Here $10,000 american and then go scream it downtown 18th and vine tommy tuff nutz in downtown kansas city. I doubt I'd have to pay.

                                                BoJack

                                                  brasil ez country masterrace.

                                                  seriously though, when i speak 'nigger' i don't mean to be racist, it's just a slang (dunno if this word is correct) like boys etc etc, dont really understand why 'muricans treat it like its a taboo or some shit

                                                  BoJack

                                                    taboos like this only make racism stronger #true

                                                    lets break all race barriers niggers from dotabuff

                                                    Wave

                                                      i live in sweden and my speed is 5 mb /s down, in game i get 100-150 ms ping and sometimes i dont see projectiles such as potm arrow and other things

                                                      yet im not crying about it huh

                                                      Hopeless

                                                        FU!

                                                        I want fiber so bad.

                                                        This is close to what you can expect:

                                                        Also, isn't Brazil one of the few Western hemisphere countries with worse crime rates than the USA?

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                                                        sano

                                                          I'm not positive but I really doubt it, crime rates here are very high

                                                          Hopeless

                                                            ^um... you mean you don't doubt it?

                                                            Quick maffs

                                                              Wait isnt internet in brazil like fucking terrible ?

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                                                              King of Low Prio

                                                                3rd world Brazil

                                                                BoJack

                                                                  uhm concede i'd guess every south/central american country has higher crime rates lol

                                                                  anyway it's not that bad when u know what ure doing, it seems a lot worse to foreigners cause them thiefs love to rob dumb tourists

                                                                  and yes internet here is pretty bad comparable to most countries but it's still pretty decent

                                                                  King of Low Prio

                                                                    I feel bad for the people who live outside Canada

                                                                    sano

                                                                      I mean I doubt USA has higher crime rates than Brazil or any South American country except maybe Chile

                                                                      BoJack

                                                                        canada's prolly a pretty depressing country along with all nordic/cold/no people countries

                                                                        sano

                                                                          dude I've read sometime ago that in Iceland the police killed a criminal for the first time in their history this year I was like "WTF?"
                                                                          the police even apologized to the victim's family rofl

                                                                          http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/02/iceland-police-kill-person-first-time-ever_n_4373228.html

                                                                          King of Low Prio

                                                                            Everything is happy and jolly in Sunny Canada.

                                                                            Quick maffs

                                                                              Sampson at least they can go to the beach at any time of the year

                                                                              It must be really fun to live with all that cold all the fucking year

                                                                              btw atum i can tell you that people is way more happy in brazil than in spain for example, and spain is not even that cold, so yeah ...

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                                                                              Hopeless

                                                                                if everything was has wonderful in Canada as Sampson claims, Sampson wouldn't troll as much as he does. His Canadian heritage leaves him unsatisfied. Nothing your free healthcare wont fix with prescriptions though.

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                                                                                Mia

                                                                                  Well... he can still stick a hockey stick into a maple syrup jar and kill a moose with it

                                                                                  why go to the beach when you can be Canadian?

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                                                                                  sano

                                                                                    no way sampson is canadian, he's too rude
                                                                                    where are your apologies sampson

                                                                                    Quick maffs

                                                                                      ^I told him the same, no way his is canadian being that rude