__________ is/are overrated.

[kphoger]

Fast internet speeds are overrated.

Most people will do just fine with the lower-tier packages and a good router (speaking from experience with Cox, at least).  If you're connecting multiple devices at the same time and have lag issues, then try upgrading your router or changing its band allocations first.  Generally, unless you're a hardcore gamer or need better upload speeds, you shouldn't have a problem.  Even streaming video on multiple devices can be easily handled these days by middle-of-the-road internet packages.

(My family has Cox's lowest currently offered package of 50 Mb/s download speed, but we have a DOCSIS 3.1 dual-band gateway with 32x8 channel bonding.  It's fairly common in our house for one person to be streaming video on Netflix, another person to be going live on Facebook, and another person to be browsing the web at the same time.)

[jeffandnicole]

I'm definitely on board with being cremated.  There's just so much cool stuff they can do with the remains these days, like getting a tattoo with the remains in the ink.

That sounds like an awful idea. I would never want that. 

Do you have any tattoos?

No, and I never will.

Come to think of it, tattoos in general are overrated.

One guy I know was a "never will" guy, but that changed after his dad passed away and he wanted something to memorialize him.

He's also been a guy that tends to be slow to warming up to the current age.  He used to bitch about text messaging, for example. Phone calls are good enough.  Once he got an unlimited text message plan, you couldn't get him to stop text messaging multiple messages in a row. 

So, while I don't have one either, maybe I will someday. 

[abefroman329]

Fast internet speeds are overrated.

Most people will do just fine with the lower-tier packages and a good router (speaking from experience with Cox, at least).  If you're connecting multiple devices at the same time and have lag issues, then try upgrading your router or changing its band allocations first.  Generally, unless you're a hardcore gamer or need better upload speeds, you shouldn't have a problem.  Even streaming video on multiple devices can be easily handled these days by middle-of-the-road internet packages.

(My family has Cox's lowest currently offered package of 50 Mb/s download speed, but we have a DOCSIS 3.1 dual-band gateway with 32x8 channel bonding.  It's fairly common in our house for one person to be streaming video on Netflix, another person to be going live on Facebook, and another person to be browsing the web at the same time.)

I agree that many of the internet speeds advertised are well beyond the needs of your average nuclear family, but when your home desktop is just the thing that runs the Thin Client Operating System for your job, and your employer mandates that you're on video for every call you're on, and your wife's job involves being on video chat for 5-6 hours a day, AND your wife streams video while doing work that doesn't require her to be on video chat...well, you benefit from higher internet speeds.

Anyway, I'll tell you what's underrated: Mesh wifi.

[formulanone]

Anyway, I'll tell you what's underrated: Mesh wifi.

Mesh has has been a boon in our household; streaming services rarely drop anymore.

Only drawback is that my wi-fi printer can't understand it, but it's easy enough to just swap between the networks.

[Max Rockatansky]

Fast internet speeds are overrated.

Most people will do just fine with the lower-tier packages and a good router (speaking from experience with Cox, at least).  If you're connecting multiple devices at the same time and have lag issues, then try upgrading your router or changing its band allocations first.  Generally, unless you're a hardcore gamer or need better upload speeds, you shouldn't have a problem.  Even streaming video on multiple devices can be easily handled these days by middle-of-the-road internet packages.

(My family has Cox's lowest currently offered package of 50 Mb/s download speed, but we have a DOCSIS 3.1 dual-band gateway with 32x8 channel bonding.  It's fairly common in our house for one person to be streaming video on Netflix, another person to be going live on Facebook, and another person to be browsing the web at the same time.)

I didn't appreciate fast speed Internet until I started uploading my photos online as a back up and posting on Gribblenation.  Some of the blog uploads took forever until I upped my internet speed, saves me a ton of time.

[kphoger]

Fast internet speeds are overrated.

Most people will do just fine with the lower-tier packages and a good router (speaking from experience with Cox, at least).  If you're connecting multiple devices at the same time and have lag issues, then try upgrading your router or changing its band allocations first.  Generally, unless you're a hardcore gamer or need better upload speeds, you shouldn't have a problem.  Even streaming video on multiple devices can be easily handled these days by middle-of-the-road internet packages.

I didn't appreciate fast speed Internet until I started uploading my photos online as a back up and posting on Gribblenation.  Some of the blog uploads took forever until I upped my internet speed, saves me a ton of time.

Yes, I'm glad I don't have to upload a lot of data.  Why do internet packages have such low upload speeds, anyway?

[Max Rockatansky]

Fast internet speeds are overrated.

Most people will do just fine with the lower-tier packages and a good router (speaking from experience with Cox, at least).  If you're connecting multiple devices at the same time and have lag issues, then try upgrading your router or changing its band allocations first.  Generally, unless you're a hardcore gamer or need better upload speeds, you shouldn't have a problem.  Even streaming video on multiple devices can be easily handled these days by middle-of-the-road internet packages.

I didn't appreciate fast speed Internet until I started uploading my photos online as a back up and posting on Gribblenation.  Some of the blog uploads took forever until I upped my internet speed, saves me a ton of time.

Yes, I'm glad I don't have to upload a lot of data.  Why do internet packages have such low upload speeds, anyway?

Got me, makes about as much sense to me as a cell phone minutes plan.

[JoePCool14]

I'm definitely on board with being cremated.  There's just so much cool stuff they can do with the remains these days, like getting a tattoo with the remains in the ink.

That sounds like an awful idea. I would never want that. 

Do you have any tattoos?

No, and I never will.

Come to think of it, tattoos in general are overrated.

One guy I know was a "never will" guy, but that changed after his dad passed away and he wanted something to memorialize him.

He's also been a guy that tends to be slow to warming up to the current age.  He used to bitch about text messaging, for example. Phone calls are good enough.  Once he got an unlimited text message plan, you couldn't get him to stop text messaging multiple messages in a row. 

So, while I don't have one either, maybe I will someday.

I know I will always be a "never will" on that. I'm all for memorializing loved ones, but I'll find another way.

[J N Winkler]

For many users, low latency is more important than gross bandwidth.

I have a hard line connection for my computer to eliminate wifi-related issues.  We do practice spectrum allocation--we avoid the 2.4 GHz channels the neighbors use and try to distribute devices evenly among the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz networks.  To ensure that reception is consistently good in the 5 GHz band, we default to a high channel number (the signal is broadcast with more power).

Generally speaking, low upload speeds for residential customers result from bandwidth being allocated to meet far greater demand in the download direction.

[zachary_amaryllis]

all of my tats were 'inside' work, so they're ugly as sin. one of the, says 'FAT PRIDE' on the inside of my left arm.

DF was i thinking...

[kphoger]

For many users, low latency is more important than gross bandwidth.

And latency can be caused by so many factors.

I can't count how many times I've had someone complain that they're not getting the full (300, 1000, however many Mb/s) speed they're subscribed to, even when hard-wired into the router–yet, when I diagnose their connection remotely, it shows their ethernet port is throttling at 100 Mb/s.  Well, that's either a modem problem, a router problem, or an ethernet cord problem–not an ISP problem.

Or my friend who texted me a couple of months ago about slow internet in his house.  He was unable to run a command prompt ping test on his laptop while hard-wired into the modem (in the basement under the stairs), but I recommended he upgrade his modem and router anyway due to their age and the fact that they were almost first-gen DOCSIS 3.0 technology.  When he did so, he still had super slow internet, and only then did he mention that all his wiring is sheet-rocked over and can't even be inspected.  I'm sure he has some ancient splitter somewhere with ancient crimped-on fittings and ancient RG59 cables coming out of it and who knows what else, but replacing those parts would require cutting sheet rock.

[Takumi]

all of my tats were 'inside' work, so they're ugly as sin. one of the, says 'FAT PRIDE' on the inside of my left arm.

DF was i thinking...

That may well be the most innocuous prison ink I've ever heard of.

[JayhawkCO]

all of my tats were 'inside' work, so they're ugly as sin. one of the, says 'FAT PRIDE' on the inside of my left arm.

DF was i thinking...

That may well be the most innocuous prison ink I've ever heard of.

You saying it's better than a teardrop?

[Max Rockatansky]

All I have is a US Route 66 shield tattoo on my left arm that was based off the 1926 US Route shield design.

[abefroman329]

all of my tats were 'inside' work, so they're ugly as sin. one of the, says 'FAT PRIDE' on the inside of my left arm.

DF was i thinking...

Fresno Pride?

[Max Rockatansky]

all of my tats were 'inside' work, so they're ugly as sin. one of the, says 'FAT PRIDE' on the inside of my left arm.

DF was i thinking...

Fresno Pride?

FAT Free Wifi (which actually is a thing)

[abefroman329]

Eric Clapton

[jakeroot]

Eric Clapton

In terms of what? I wouldn't call him, in general, overrated.

[kurumi]

Duty-free shopping gets a lot of hype

[formulanone]

Duty-free shopping gets a lot of hype

Please purchase perfume and cigarettes in unmanageable containers before leaving.

[abefroman329]

Duty-free shopping gets a lot of hype

Please purchase perfume and cigarettes in unmanageable containers before leaving.

If you're suggesting that those giant Marlboro containers that stored several cartons and were in the shape of a Marlboro box were anything but awesome, I won't hear it.

[roadman65]

Florida is getting that way.  Our hierarchy is telling big investors and developers to use our farm land and woodlands for bull dozing and creating new communities. Heck with the fact that our roads are outdated and having alternative means of transportation is not in our states vocabulary, we end up with traffic nightmares in many places especially I-4.

You think that other states mistakes on overdevelopment would scare our present government here to stop, but no! We have some other states residuals happening right now in our state, that ruined other states especially high traffic volumes on major roads.

[formulanone]

Duty-free shopping gets a lot of hype

Please purchase perfume and cigarettes in unmanageable containers before leaving.

If you're suggesting that those giant Marlboro containers that stored several cartons and were in the shape of a Marlboro box were anything but awesome, I won't hear it.

They're kind of funny, actually. So non-discrete.

Working in a grocery store, I always imagined the hardcore smokers would always buy cartons; but almost always just 1-2 packs, which always seemed to be foolish...you're already addicted, so why not appreciate the potential savings?

Smoking is very overrated, for those didn't try it at least once-and-half times.

[abefroman329]

Duty-free shopping gets a lot of hype

Please purchase perfume and cigarettes in unmanageable containers before leaving.

If you're suggesting that those giant Marlboro containers that stored several cartons and were in the shape of a Marlboro box were anything but awesome, I won't hear it.

They're kind of funny, actually. So non-discrete.

Working in a grocery store, I always imagined the hardcore smokers would always buy cartons; but almost always just 1-2 packs, which always seemed to be foolish...you're already addicted, so why not appreciate the potential savings?

Smoking is very overrated, for those didn't try it at least once-and-half times.

As a former smoker, maybe they could only afford one pack.  Or they were trying to hide their habit from someone.

[hbelkins]

Florida is overrated.