Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!
This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.
It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:
- Something interesting that happened to you
- Something humourous that happened to you
- Something frustrating that happened to you
- A quick question
- A request for recommendations
- Pictures of your pet
- A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
- Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)
So how’s it going?
I ended up with my own fancy router after frustrations with an ISP one. Really nice but cost a fortune. We haven’t had a landline in I think about 20 years.
I’ve also just gone through the ISP change thing, dropping one as part of a regular changeover, partly because I didn’t like them and partly because they put us behind CGNAT, then finding both the new ones are behind CGNAT, but I managed to convince the new one to drop the 12 month contract I agreed to because they hadn’t started yet. Have signed up to BigPipe, got me a static IP (one off charge - way nicer to pay $45 once than $12 every month). Price is comparable to others. I suspect my ISP hopping days are over, all these small ones seem to just be reselling the same Devoli service these days.