I will confess that I did a double take, misreading it the first time as 10 minutes without internet or porn.
Sparklight, formerly CableOne. Rock solid for months at a time and then 2-3 one hour long outages in as many days. Then back to old reliable again.
Just adding points to @ThelmaLou’s issue (and here’s hoping there’s been improvements, although tower work can take time)
How often does your cellular internet (on phone, gateway, or mobile internet device) kick you off the internet?
Because in the prior threads we’ve talked about cellular internet, I’ve been cautious because I’m aware of just how much more variability there is inherently between fiber and cellular signal. At my house for example, my T-Mobile signal is about 2 bars (I’m basically down in a valley with no real line of sight to the tower, which is actually quite nearby) and I therefore use wi-fi calling most of the time (and yes, I did get a free-to-use in house option to make it easier).
When I don’t use wifi calling, I rarely drop calls, but have a noticeable number of brief cutouts in the conversation. Which, again, is on par for a 2 bar signal strength. My internet connectivity is normally ‘okay’, but I’ve had multiple times when the website will say no internet connection, or to check connection because of timeout issues from the page, while a sufficiently light-weight website will load fine (lite.cnn.com was my favorite for diagnostic purposes back in the day).
I remember ThelmaLou’s prior connectivity was middle of the road, same as mentioned with the gateway at or around 3, which is probably good enough most of the time, but is probably problematic when there are (as reported this time) technical issues, or major congestion, or weather related incidents.
I doubt if in the long term 5G cellular internet is ever going to be as dependable as a wired connection (heck, I still prefer a wired ethernet connection at home for my computers because of variability and local wireless congestion), but considering the creeping costs of the local provider prior to some minor increased competition, I’m glad to see it as an option.
Update: since my phone call to T-Mobile two days ago, I haven’t gotten kicked off even once. Hmmm…coincidence?
It will never be as good as the connection on that black rotary dial phone with the short cord that sat in the hallway.
Well, that was never as good as the runner I hired to bring me updates from the battle, what was his name… oh yeah, Pheidippides, that was it.
Damn he was good and dependable, shame he just fell over dead that one time. 
Hehe.
The voice quality you’re getting over cell networks on your $1,000 iPhone is generally worse than it was when the landline was the only phone that existed.
“There is a whole generation of mobile users that have never heard a high-quality voice call,” said Sue Rudd, who directs research on mobile networks for Strategy Analytics.
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Vaporized whatever primative wiring inside via a lightning strike to the house transformer. Girlfriend called the phone company after trying to get thru to me for a few days. I wasn’t the most rigorous caller from my end
Normally we have very few problems with involuntary disconnections at home. There were a few times last year that there was a widespread outage, due to infrastructure issues.
In October we got disconnected a few times a day, so we called the ISP. According to that person, our router, only 3 years old, was already considered ancient and needed to be replaced. Since we got the new router, we haven’t had any problems.
The other advantage of the new router is that it has better diagnostics, which the ISP can see to tell us if connectivity issues (as in, not getting the connection speed we should get) are between them and the connection point outside the building, or within our own network. So far we haven’t taken advantage of this as the new router is behaving better than the old one and we’re mostly in the office.