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    MFP21 got a reaction from CA3LE in Anyone getting 1000Mbps from Spectrum...not me!   
    Well, if you liked that you may enjoy this single page pdf excerpt from my newest novel. Part One of this saga is also in Book Three which is currently available from leanpub.com


     
    Synopsis


     
    This “Spectrum Rhymes with Rectum” title is in effect a sequel to the writers’ previous four books and follows the main character, Lefty, (who considers himself a Wilbury) in a fight against a monopolistic corporation for his fair share of Megabits from a Cable Internet Goliath.


     
    The Insider Trilogy plus three is as follows:


     
    Book One

    The Insider

    (A Life Inside the Personal Computer)


     
    Book Two

    The Cozening (A Murder of Promise)


     
    Book Three

    The Insider Goes Deep

    (Tales from the Dark Web)


     
    And its companion book:

    Book Four

    A User Guide to the Dark Web

    (The 42nd and Final Encyclopedia Cyberspacia)


     
    Book Five (in the works)

    Spectrum Rhymes with Rectum

    (The fight for Megabits)


     
    Book Six (in the works)

    The Insider Goes to Space

    (Tales from Beyond Planet Earth)


     
    Note: All books are available on leanpub.com

    https://leanpub.com/bookstore?type=all&search=Lefty%20Insider


     
    Book Five exerpt.pdf
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    MFP21 got a reaction from CA3LE in Anyone getting 1000Mbps from Spectrum...not me!   
    Well then you might be amused by this:
    Crank the volume to 11.
    https://www.tcw.org/Got%20the%20Spectrum%20Blues.mp3
     
    Got the Spectrum Blues.mp3  
     
     
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    MFP21 got a reaction from xs1 in Anyone getting 1000Mbps from Spectrum...not me!   
    Well then you might be amused by this:
    Crank the volume to 11.
    https://www.tcw.org/Got%20the%20Spectrum%20Blues.mp3
     
    Got the Spectrum Blues.mp3  
     
     
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    MFP21 got a reaction from xs1 in Anyone getting 1000Mbps from Spectrum...not me!   
    Well when I had Frontier dsl at least I knew I was getting all of the 1Mbps that they had for me. <g>
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    MFP21 got a reaction from Bizzy in Anyone getting 1000Mbps from Spectrum...not me!   
    Admin,
    If you send me your email address to the email address I used to register at your site, or just email me, I will bcc copy you on selected email conversations, rather than quotes, with a Spectrum VP of Operations.

    Regarding downgrading:
    In 2021, amidst the pandemic, I was using a VPN and Tor to do my Dark Web research for my third and fourth books. Was also playing with a VM.

    100 Mbps wasn’t cutting it, I was also wireless at this point so I had that degradation despite upgrading my router to Wi-Fi 6 and network cards to wireless 802.11 ac/ax.


     
    So I upgraded to their 300Mbps service and saw no improvement. So I started testing and emailing results, writing and producing a song rhyming Spectrum with Rectum, and after several months of insisting that I was the problem, they (a VP) reduced my price. To me this was an admission of guilt.

    Meanwhile they say they bumped my service to 400Mbps. I believe this is a marketing technique to justify steady price increases and ward away potential competition in the area.

    Then in 2023 they sent me a notice that I have a free upgrade to 500Mbps, them not knowing about the whole letting sleeping dogs lie thing.


     
    So I started testing again, only now with Cat6/7 wired Ethernet, and could only get that speed inside of 200 miles within their INTRAnet.
    More like 90Mbps with FTP even then.


     
    I suspected that they could not actually deliver a 1000Mbps service to my rural area, wanted to prove it, so I upgraded to that and again could only get that speed inside of 200 miles within their INTRAnet.


     
    I don’t really need 1000, 500 would be fine if I could actually get it. There is no evidence that I can.

    Yet because of this corporate monopoly, if I downgrade to 500 I will still pay the same $100 per month. So I am stuck in some Charter Marketing Catch-22 bullshit here.


     
    Hence the pissed off nature of my correspondence, and my continuing persistent and relentless battle.

    Thank you for our response and advice,
    MFP

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    MFP21 got a reaction from CA3LE in Anyone getting 1000Mbps from Spectrum...not me!   
    Admin,
    If you send me your email address to the email address I used to register at your site, or just email me, I will bcc copy you on selected email conversations, rather than quotes, with a Spectrum VP of Operations.

    Regarding downgrading:
    In 2021, amidst the pandemic, I was using a VPN and Tor to do my Dark Web research for my third and fourth books. Was also playing with a VM.

    100 Mbps wasn’t cutting it, I was also wireless at this point so I had that degradation despite upgrading my router to Wi-Fi 6 and network cards to wireless 802.11 ac/ax.


     
    So I upgraded to their 300Mbps service and saw no improvement. So I started testing and emailing results, writing and producing a song rhyming Spectrum with Rectum, and after several months of insisting that I was the problem, they (a VP) reduced my price. To me this was an admission of guilt.

    Meanwhile they say they bumped my service to 400Mbps. I believe this is a marketing technique to justify steady price increases and ward away potential competition in the area.

    Then in 2023 they sent me a notice that I have a free upgrade to 500Mbps, them not knowing about the whole letting sleeping dogs lie thing.


     
    So I started testing again, only now with Cat6/7 wired Ethernet, and could only get that speed inside of 200 miles within their INTRAnet.
    More like 90Mbps with FTP even then.


     
    I suspected that they could not actually deliver a 1000Mbps service to my rural area, wanted to prove it, so I upgraded to that and again could only get that speed inside of 200 miles within their INTRAnet.


     
    I don’t really need 1000, 500 would be fine if I could actually get it. There is no evidence that I can.

    Yet because of this corporate monopoly, if I downgrade to 500 I will still pay the same $100 per month. So I am stuck in some Charter Marketing Catch-22 bullshit here.


     
    Hence the pissed off nature of my correspondence, and my continuing persistent and relentless battle.

    Thank you for our response and advice,
    MFP

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