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How is this even possible in 2024? I realize Rochester isn't exactly a major metropolis, but we're in the middle of town! It's not like they're relying on Hughesnet or something.
Also, it's not that they're cheaping out on us either. The owners live upstairs. This is a duplex.
On the one hand, this is normally fine at an Airbnb because you should be on vacation and thus out and doing stuff.
On the other hand, you're in Rochester, MN, and I'd imagine the main reason people would get an AirBNB there is to be near family who are inpatient, so the hosts should be catering to that...
Agreed, but my mother is a nutcase.
at least there's internet
In the same sense of 'at least there's heat' in a room with a space heater and an open window.
are you sure about that, I've had real shitty internet that usually didn't work, bad analogy.
Okay, a faulty space heater.
not closer closed window goes closer
closed window, faulty space heater & fireplace that only has fires last for a few seconds
My office is at about 1 mbs with RTO. I feel your pain friend
Ouch. I am sorry.
QoS maybe?
I just saw the "radio link internet" there
If your internet is beamed in over some radio signal somewhere then yeah, I get why it's so shitty. Wait until it starts raining!
They do that in my rural area with ham radios on each end.
How bad is this to use? 5 Mbps isn't awful to use but that ping concerns me, high pings in my experience are worse than slow speeds in a lot of cases (gaming, browsing, chat etc.)
The upload is likely more of an issue. I was stuck with an annoying ASDL setup for a while. Download wasn't bad, but upload was extremely low. It also had no form of traffic shaping. As soon as one of our phones decided to back up our photos, the TCP return packets started getting lagged out. Basically webpages wouldn't load/timeout while anything was trying to upload.
Long pings are annoying. Insufficient upload can break a lot of 'modern' websites.
A ping of 100+ is slightly noticable (not counting gaming here), 200+ is very noticeable, 500+ becomes close to very annoying / unworkable for most cases. A 600 ping will be hard to even load pages. Streaming might might work, but a high ping like that usually comes with a high packet loss too, so I wouldn't hold my breath for Netflix even...
Crazily bad. Like even Lemmy.world takes a good 5 seconds to refresh.
Ya. Most vacation rentals will have Internet like this. They don't want you pirating or downloading potentially illegal materials.
It's enough to watch Netflix and Google shit and that's about it.
Your average landlord isn’t going to even be thinking or caring about “piracy”. They only care about their bottom line.
Is that enough to watch Netflix? I didn't bother trying.
Sometimes it is. Depends on what Netflix is doing. But you're right, I usually just use my own hotspot when traveling.
Yeah, video is heavy, so that's kind of surprising if so. I guess I can kind of stream a video over Tor, which is testing at 2 down right now, although usually only in low resolution.
Compression is amazing.
I dunno, 3 megabits works out to about 0.375 megabytes per second. So its slow.
That seems like a limiter has been applied. Probably on the router. I dont think there are internet providers out there still offering adsl speeds like this. You would need around 5Mbps to watch HD on netflix.
Might be worth finding the actual router and getting the log in details from the sticker on the bottom/back and logging in to see if you can disable it.
If someone is savvy enough to have done this, surely they would have changed the password as well? Worth a shot tho, I suppose!
I guess if you werent savvy enough to do it you could follow a guide. My dad does alot of tech stuff by following guides but if it ever goes wrong he cant fix it becaise he doesnt know what he did, he just follows the steps.
I have to fix it instead.
Hmm. Would that get you in trouble with AirBnB? I guess it's possible they wouldn't notice if you put it back, but it's a risk.
I know one of the ISPs in my area still runs ADSL as their only option for this town, but I never bothered asking what the speeds were.
Might be worth finding the actual router and getting the log in details from the sticker on the bottom/back and logging in to see if you can disable it.
Alternatively, plug in your own router. Probably a last resort plan, though.
I'm tethering to my phone. Thankfully, I have an unlimited data plan. Tethering gives me about 60 mbps, which is still slower than I'm used to but at least I can do things like watch YouTube videos.
Sometimes they'll give you unlimited data but still limit your hotspot, so watch for that.
I do not believe that is the case with our plan, but thanks.
Edit: Come to think of it, I know it isn't because my daughter has had to do her online school video lessons via tethering when the power has gone out.