[FRIAM] Portland interruption but my laughable internet keeps going down

[Steve Smith]

Gil-

I get my service through NMSURF wireless (formerly CNSP) and have had 
pretty good service, though *I* may have somewhat lower expectations 
than most people...  a little like Gary... when you grow up without 
*any* internet and then "come of age" with 110/300/1200bps dialup and 
got really excited by 56Kbps service, what I have now (nominally 25MBps) 
which *usually* supports one or more video/audio streams and feels to 
have no significant lag in other uses feels like a dream.   It may well 
not support the level of bandwidth/latency the high-demand gaming use 
cases you have. But that is probably true of *any* service in much of NM?

A superficial observation is that since you live in one of the oldest, 
most patchworked areas of Santa Fe, it might not be surprising that the 
*physical* infrastructure in your area is very limited and vulnerable to 
failure...   I could be wrong, if you've seen a 4'wide trench up your 
road in the last 5 years they *may* have been laying first-mile fiber, 
but I doubt it.

Wireless may be your best bet if you've tried everything else (especially).

- Steve

On 9/20/22 1:29 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
> Heya Gary! Hope all is well.
> I live around canyon over by Johnnies Market. and on a good day might 
> get 10-13 of the 25 MBS. Which isbad. Backups, updates, and some games 
> are significantly larger than 25mbs a second  down, and the modem 
> speed up is ridiculous for what comcast charges. It's especially 
> ridiculous its allowed as a thing at all.
>
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 12:14 PM Gary Schiltz 
> <gary at naturesvisualarts.com> wrote:
>
>     Where in Santa Fe do you live? I ask only out of idle curiosity,
>     since I now live 6378 km from Santa Fe (check out the cool earth
>     distance calculator at
>     https://keisan.casio.com/exec/system/1224587128). But having lived
>     in Pecos for 10 years and being in Santa Fe most of those days for
>     work, internet speed still interests me. When I left NM in 2008, I
>     was still on dialup out in Pecos (28.8 kbps on a very good day
>     with Cybermesa), although someone was installing wireless in the
>     area (512 kbps was the top speed even with the "high speed" plan,
>     if I recall). And the local phone carrier (Centurytel if I recall
>     the name correctly) kept offering broken promises of DSL. Here in
>     rural Ecuador, I only have semi-decent access by learning wireless
>     tech myself and installing thousands of dollars worth of equipment
>     on my own tower and on my provider's tower 15 Km distant. Still,
>     it's cost prohibitive to get much over 20-30 Mbps, although prices
>     are steadily going down. Here at the end of several multiples of
>     the "last mile" phenomenon, microwave is really the only way to
>     bridge the gap, and on rugged mountainous terrain heavily forested
>     with tall trees, like here, it is often expensive.
>
>     On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 1:55 AM Gillian Densmore
>     <gil.densmore at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>         Okay this is enough I am sick of this this BS ends. Who do I
>         not vote for so that we can finally get real internet out
>         today alone I've had 15 outages the other dents more thinks
>         the DSL is a good enough feel over solution Man I'm sorry but
>         DSL is just not internet these days I wish it was but no no no
>         no no when you're file size is or in an excess of 20 GB 30 GB
>         whatever I mean yeah that's disgustingly large but that's just
>         the reality of the world that I take as it stands .
>
>
>         What the hell do I do to get real 300 MB each way I'm not
>         going to compromise this time I did that too many times.
>
>
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