You know you didn't have to commit modemacide. You could have actually just asked for new hardware.

The majority of users can't get anywhere near advertised speeds because the are using cheap devices to connect to their cheap wifi and WIFI in general isn't expected to provide plan speeds in the first place. Also bandwidth is oversold. An ISP that serves 1,000,000 people with Gbps doesn't actually have 1 Pbps bandwidth available to it. Most people should be able to get within 95% WHEN CONNECTED BY A WIRE TO MODEM most of the time and 90% of plan speed near all the time.

Did you know your phone doesn't work if too many people in the same area try to use them at once because they don't actually have enough capacity to serve everyone at once?

I don't know why the ISP would initiate an upgrade you never asked for especially when they provide both faster speeds and better hardware as an up sell. If you want to live in 2009 it is indeed your problem. I made a fair bit of commission upgrading people to much much better hardware and speed for not much more money. Hi would you like your internet to be 20x faster and be able to use it upstairs for 15% more. Yes of course you do.

You should wire

• Your home office if you work from home.

This is where your money comes from it should work as fast and as consistently as possible. Being 10% less reliable isn't acceptable.

• Things that are literally right next to one another.

If your console, cable box, and TV are all on the same shelf as the modem/router why are they competing for bandwidth with your laptop?

• The connection between routers/access points if your space warrants more than one.

The speed the second or subsequent devices are able to provide to all of its clients put together is limited by the speed of its connection to the first device and if its too far for a 5Ghz connection this wont be that fast. EG your upstairs router might support in theory a 600Mbps connection but if its connection is 80Mbps and 4 devices are connected an individual client may get as little as 20Mbps even if its connection to the router/AP is 600Mbps

I worked for an ISP. These problems are rarely ever ISP problems. It goes like this. ISP offers 50Mbps–1.2Gbps. If you are a cheap bastard and opt for the lowest tier plan you get a cheap hardware and if you don't ask for an upgrade you'll run that box until it doesn't work. So you have people rocking hardware that was manufactured in 2009 and installed in 2014 wondering why their cheap ass WIFI4 box installed in their basement doesn't work so well in half their house in 2024.

What's more they have a download speed that would have been good in 2009 only instead of 2 computers they now have 20 connected devices and stream in 4K.

What's worse is the rental on that shit WIFI4 box is about $20 a month or $2400 over 10 years so your paying for a BMW and getting a Pinto.

Smart people buy their own access points preferably wifi 7. Get one per story of your house and connect them with a physical Ethernet cable. Arrange them so that they overlap but not that much so that you don't have dead zones. If you work from home get a proper desk and run a physical Ethernet cable to your device. Also if you have devices that are literally 2.5 feet from each other and they support physical network cables just plug them in. Don't be that guy spending an hour trying to figure out why his router and his printer/tv aren't friends when they are almost touching each other.

It's an act of public goodwill to rich corporations who could get the same privilege by paying for a separate license.

Musk should be arrested for trying to influence our government with threats.

Many estimates place the total number of undocumented at around 11M are we going to deport most of them twice?

Actually demand would crater after the economy collapses. Nominal wages would increase as we go into hyperinflation while adjusting for inflation real wages would be drop.

Why would open source code be released with the intention of helping people who wont or can't give back?

That is what I meant but stated more clearly thank you.

Everyone even moderately competent shoots to kill. They fire most commonly at the torso until the individual is no longer a threat. Turns out that putting several bullets into someone's body commonly kills them. Only in TV shows do people shoot people in non-vital areas to disable them and only in TV shows does shooting people in the foot or shoulder not just kill people same as shooting them anywhere else.

That is very interesting thank you. The inherent problem is that faithfully transcribed bullshit is still bullshit.