How is this even possible in 2024? I realize Rochester isn’t exactly a major metropolis, but we’re in the middle of town! It’s not like they’re relying on Hughesnet or something.
Also, it’s not that they’re cheaping out on us either. The owners live upstairs. This is a duplex.
Pretty sure that’s against the Geneva Convention.
If indeed the service is provided by “Radio Link Internet” as listed in your screenshot, the owner can likely fix the speed to “better” with a single phone call RIGHT NOW with the $30 more per month subscription fee to the $85 30mbps down / 10mbps up instead of what they’re probably on the $55 service plan.
Judging from the info on your screenshot this looks like this is a WISP. Meaning if you go outside the building there is likely a small tower with an antenna on it that is aimed parallel to the ground. In the days of ISDN, these were amazingly better. In the days of fiber or even Starlink these are pretty abysmal.
you’ll be fine. I played WoW in the early 2000s with these Internet speeds.
Mother Mayo won’t let the people living here have nice things. All infrastructure funding must go to the hospital so they can stay one the top medical centers in the world, while the city around them crumbles. Everything goes to the Destination Medical Center.
I would do my impression of a dialup modem but can’t convey those sounds.
Is this the ISP saying “you may experience speeds up to” and then gives you this?
Can you plug in? May be better.
Looks like my 4G LTE speeds I get on my phone at work
On the one hand, this is normally fine at an Airbnb because you should be on vacation and thus out and doing stuff.
On the other hand, you’re in Rochester, MN, and I’d imagine the main reason people would get an AirBNB there is to be near family who are inpatient, so the hosts should be catering to that…
Agreed, but my mother is a nutcase.
The ISP I work for provides residential gigabit fiber to Rochester, so I know it’s definitely not a problem of availability
at least there’s internet
In the same sense of ‘at least there’s heat’ in a room with a space heater and an open window.
are you sure about that, I’ve had real shitty internet that usually didn’t work, bad analogy.
Okay, a faulty space heater.
not closer closed window goes closer
closed window, faulty space heater & fireplace that only has fires last for a few seconds
It’d be faster to mail the TCP packets via USPS
Or carrier pigeon.
Perhaps they could be using a VLan?
QoS maybe?
These are the speeds the ISP advertises:
https://www.radiolinkinternet.com/Plans.html
I don’t know much about WISP but I suspect speed will vary based on distance and line of site to towers and how congested they are.
Most of the WISP systems I work with max out at 30 Mbps, but it’s also older tech. In Rochester though there really are better options so that’s kinda insane that any one would be using that, it isn’t typicalky cheaper than cable at the very least.
When I worked for a WISP, we guaranteed speeds up to 100 Mbps up and down. Most of the tests done after installation were about the same as what I get at home on cable from Xfinity (only terrestrial option here). If they weren’t, it usually meant we fucked up and probably knocked the dish out of alignment while tightening it. However, at some point we lost hundreds of users because a building was constructed right in front of the tower facing all those customers and the big guys in engineering were scrambling to move the tower to the new building which was taller than the one we had our equipment on.
You’re in the wrong Rochester!
I am so jealous. Those assholes will not run it to my apartment. Landlord tried. The entire neighborhood behind and next to us has it. I am just done and fed up with Spectrum. Maybe I should call and bitch.
threaten to pirate
if the listing advertised “high-speed internet” or anything with the wording “high-speed”, then i’d call AirBNB and complain until i either got a partial refund or a rebooking elsewhere. Rate 1-star and post as many complaints as possible on as many social media outlets as possible with the full name of the AirBnB host. Name and Shame.
Basically, be as big a nightmare as possible (without getting kicked out) until either it gets fixed or until you get enough money back to make you feel better.
edit:
The owners live upstairs.
i wouldn’t let them sleep a wink until that’s 50Mb/s+ both up and down. should be at least 100Mb/s, but 50Mb/s is manageable.
They’re fucking you while on vacation, and i would make their live a LIVING HELL. being cheap has consequences…
50 up is pretty much the max I’ve seen most plans. Most ISPs just don’t allocate Jack for it.
Re you’re edit: I’m not here on vacation, I’m here to go to the Mayo clinic. But they close up at 3, so it would be nice to come back to decent wifi. Thankfully, I realized I can just use my phone as a hotspot. The only problem is my iPhone and my Mint Linux notebook won’t play nice, so I have to tether one to the other via USB to get it to work rather than via the WiFi connection. No idea why, but it won’t get to the authentication part when I connect to the WiFi. But that’s better than what I had before.
to me, that makes it even more egregious. i’d send them a bill for your data plan, and i’d also browbeat them for putting someone critically ill, who is visiting the mayo clinic, until they got the issue fixed immediately.
some people think they can take advantage of people like you and your mother, and i’d make sure they never did that again, not to anyone, ever.
i’d get on the phone with AirBnB and be such a unimaginable nightmare, that they’d do anything just to shut me up.
i’ve been extremely successful at this.
edit: i once had a similar issue at a crappy hotel with bad internet service. i called their corporate office and threatened a federal lawsuit and had a lawyer buddy of mine throw some legalese at them (an obvious bluff). had them shook. 5 minutes later, the “we can’t do anything” magically turned into “oh, we fixed the problem” and my internet speed was magically fixed.
sometimes, you just havae to out-asshole the asshoels to get what you paid for.
Thankfully, I have unlimited data, so it’s not a cost issue. Just a bit irritating that I had to resort to this.
Also, I really don’t think they’re trying to take advantage of us. Someone else said that this is some rural ISP that for some reason people in much of Rochester use.
well, that’s why i mentioned the listing, and whether it advertised “high-speed” internet. if it didn’t, this whole thing might be moot.
I’m here with my mother (also mildly infuriating) who chose it and is paying for it, so I’ll have to talk to her about it, thanks.
i don’t see how that changes anything. in fact, i might be more outraged, as they’re taking advantage of your poor, sweet, elderly mother, which is exactly how you should put it in every single complaint call, email, and social media post.
It doesn’t change anything. I just never saw the listing, which is why I had to talk to her about it.
That makes sense.
Who hurt you?
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Or, hear me out, they could just be a polite human and ask about the issue before jumping to conclusions? It could be a simple case of them restarting the network to fix it. Throwing a tantrum over this without any other information or communication is just pathetic, why would that be your gut reaction?
Some people just need any excuse to get mad and feel like they have control over something.
Seems like a stressful life to live.
Yeah, not doing that. In fact, if I don’t have to see or talk to them the entire time I’m here, I’ll be happy about that part of this trip. I didn’t particularly want to stay in an AirBnB in the first place, but I’m not the one paying. I would have honestly been fine with a Motel 6 or whatever.
It’s actually crazy how many adults are entitled children who don’t know how to deal with issues
Acting like that can very easily backfire
a person is entitled to what they paid for. they are also entitled to complain when they get ripped off.
but, sure, you can just roll over and get taken advantage of. sounds very “adult”.
enjoy that.
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Making their life a living hell is a far cry from complaining. What you suggested is childish, petty, and probably would get OP banned from AirBNB.
there is nothing childish nor petty about demanding to get what one paid for. and complaining to AirBnB about it while also posting one’s dissatisfaction publicly isn’t going to get anyone banned.
I didn’t advise doing anything illegal nor did i advise harassing anyone.
My dude you said you’d make their life living hell, the fact that you don’t consider that harassment says a lot about the kind of person you are. No wonder you’re so unhappy.
You imagine me as unhappy because it services your position to do so.
I get what I pay for. I’m quite happy. If you can’t find it possible to believe me, that’s your own problem.
Yeah… even if the people are dickheads, why go through the effort to stoop to their level, just move on with your life.
