Snow day! Snow day! Not for me, but for the kids... Roads are horrid, it's a zillion of those little tiny snowflakes, but fortunately they're very powdery and brush away easily. Our ballet tonight (appropriately, it's Frozen) is tonight so hopefully the school is open for evening activities. We were there for hours setting up and I'm gonna stab someone if they make us reschedule.
Two things stick in my mind.
First the teacher needs to understand that that particular reading was inappropriate.
Two.... A newborn is 12 pounds????? What the tater?!?!
Seriously inappropriate reading.
For the teacher and the tater holes in your class.
I kinda get why they chose something like that, but they could have totally found something on The Onion that would have worked just as well w/ less gore.
I only have cable for $120 a month because they don't offer internet separate. THANKS! Spectrum is the only internet provider in my area so they can get away with only offering bundles. I have a house phone I've never used too. ::::insert middle finger emoji here::::
I have spectrum and I just got internet, but get constant offers to bundle. Did tehy say why they don't have internet only plans out there? I've never had phone or tv through them... seems strange it's not available, esp since it comes in on the same lines.
We have Spectrum internet, no bundle... HOWEVER... the internet goes out at a MINIMUM of 6 times a day. Most of the time only for a minute or two... but it's gone out for up to 30 minutes. Spectrum said it was because of the internet speed, so we paid for ifaster internet. Then they said it was our old box, so we got a new box. NOTHING HAS CHANGED.
Sammie, post the middle finger emoji so we can ALL download it!!!
Love the Mexican vanilla KiKi
Do you use wireless, or are you plugged in? If you're wireless and you have close neighbors your wireless signal might be on the same channel and it can cause interference. If you're using the box from Spectrum you'd need them to change the channel frequency for you.
I recently had an incident where at our computer lab library that's the townhall, the townhall finally got high speed internet of their own, through spectrum. Their internet was on the same frequency and they put it right by our cable modem and access point. It started interfering with our wireless printer. It took them several weeks to realize there was a problem, and then they told us that the townhall got internet a couple weeks before... SMH. I switched our channel and now everything works.
Another thing you can do is check for dropped packets: go to a command prompt (it's in your start menu) and type
ping 8.8.8.8 -t
This will sent a signal to Google's DNS servers and will look like this: (click on the X to close the window, or hit ctrl c on your keyboard to stop it)
The 'time' should be below 100, but the lower the better, our branches usually ping back in the 50's. And you should never have a 'timed out', it means there is a dropped packet and indicates a problem on your end or theirs.
I once had a problem in a library and it was dropping packets every for 10 - 15 replies, ended up being a major network issue in that city that no one had noticed until I complained. We had to reset our cable modem every Friday morning before that. It was ridiculous. Years ago a tech told me how to check for dropped packets. It's helped me several times when dealing w/ janky equipment or bad lines. Ughhh.... one time, during a library renovation some genius installed a new cable line, BUT they didn't string it right so when the guys came in to install the new HVAC system outside they put the freakin' unit right on top of our cable line! SMH... we had major issues until someone realized what happened.
Ok you two....tell them to check the trap on the line. Before everything went digital if you didn't pay for tv they put a thing out on your lines at the pole. It made it so tv signals wouldn't go through. They are junk! Had the same internet problem you are talking about before I was forced to pay for tv. Finally a lovely tech with a Jamaican accent came out. Did all the same stuff every tech before him had done then went up the pole. He came back holding what looked like a big plastic bullet. He poured water out of it then showed me the corroded mess inside. He said 90% of his calls are these stupid trap things. He removed mine, marked the pole with a flag saying it had one, told the co he replaced it and left. I NEVER lost internet again. Even got some free tv. Once they went digital they never bothered to remove the traps....
I bought a full size sheet set on clearance. Used the fitted sheet on the couch cushions. Wrapped em up like a burrito. No sew and easy removal for wash. LOL Plus I got extra pillow cases and a flat sheet.
I've never heard of this but that's so good to know. We just upgraded the internet speed for all of our locations, but one is still pinging in the 50's instead of closer to the 100 they're supposed to have. We've ALWAYS had problems with this location, so now I wonder, since they're wayyyy more rural, if this is the problem. Next time we have to call support for them I'll be sure to ask about it. I love how there's these little bits of info that are kind of secrets and it's only if you get an experienced tech that you'll know about it and get it fixed.
I understand your pain. 
