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Posted by sureanem

Is this with a directional antenna?

Posted by sureanem
Recent versions of Windows and Android both add a tiny exclamation mark to the icon to show that it doesn't have Internet access. It doesn't seem to help though. How can the router be broken if there's Internet?

Posted by tomman


I can't even use those 25MB: Movistar 3G network has been down for the entire weekend, and the 2G barely works for calls. The Movilnet 3G stick stopped working 2 weeks ago (connection drops before PPP gives me a IP). My EvDO flipphone data stopped working years ago due to mysterious reasons.

Sometimes DSL comes up for minutes at a time, sometimes it becomes mildly stable for hours... but most of the times is a unusability nightmare of endless modem desyncs, fucked up DL/UL speeds, and total instability guaranteed. The best I can do is to load sites as fast as I can while I get a link, then read them when the link dies (forget about uploading large files or seeding torrents with such painful packetloss rates). I'm glad I don't stream videos or play games or any of those so-called Web 3.0 first-world enterprises!

CANTV techs refuse to come to my block and take a look, despite learning that the local head tech actually lives right at my backyard (yes, really!). We gathered signatures among my neighbors (since CANTV now requires that for all blocks with mass faults to bring signatures in batches), but half of the neighbors didn't even bothered signing the document (despite my entire block -about 70 subscribers- being without service for one reason or another). They promised they would come... someday.

But all those telco failures (intentional or not) fit nicely into the commies' agenda to isolate us even further from the world...

In the meanwhile, here we are, still in danger of dropping off the Internets for good :/

Posted by tomman

You assume we have access to fancy tech over here, like "cantennas" and crazy $5 AliExpress deals. No, that's now how things work on communist shitholes like mine. I never was a "wardriver" wireless nerd (in fact, I don't use wireless at home - my laptops are wired 24x7), so I never bothered investing into building a stash of fancy 802.11<letters> gear beyond the basics (built-in laptop wireless, cheap router that can be reflashed to something better). Now it's too late for anything of that, considering that we have higher priorities (eat, stay alive) and next to no money. Also, I never heard about wireless networks with kilometer-wide coverage (aside of metropolitan networks which we clearly don't have over here). So yeah, thanks for the advice but sadly it doesn't apply for my case (or roughly 90% of the inhabitants of the land of gold, oil, and hot women).

Posted by tomman

Welcome to my daily life. Normies HATE learning about things. They expect to turn on PC, click/tap button, have content delivered and bugs magically fixed. They don't care about things like "web browsers", "UX", "modems", "page faults", "reallocated sectors", "XML", "databases"... or even basic stuff like privacy or elementary physics. And of course, noone pays attention to little details like the warning overlay over the network status tray icon. They gleefully ignore it, while sticking to their wrong assumptions about how tech works ("WiFi is the new blue E").

I consider it to largely be a lost battle.

Posted by DonJon

i'm not too knowledgeable on the Venezuela situation but why is Maduro blocking foreign aid? Some kind of desperate attempt to remain in control and power? Or because it would legitimize the claims that his government and policies are well,a complete failure, or just to stick it to foreign nations?

Posted by tomman
Aaaand... this thread went straight to politics bullshittery. Please don't go there.

Posted by Kawa
Are you sure you're bragging about the right number here?

Posted by Kawa
That would still not be the right number to brag about here. If you want dick-measuring, make a new thread.

Posted by Kawa
I have no idea.