I get “You are not connected to the internet” a couple times a day. TWC, Summit County, Ohio. Most times I can unplug the modem for a few minutes, then reboot it. But that doesn’t always work. And I have bundled service, so if the modem goes offline, I lose the phone too,,and sometimes cable tv.
I’m also in Ohio...rural, southern Ohio. We have no cable or dsl, so I’ve tried different dial-up and satellite and recently went to an ATT wifi.
My speed is only about 5 mbps, but it beats satellite on its best days and dial-up is no longer viable. My connection also cuts off for no reason at times, and I’ve yet to figure that out. I have to restart the entire machine to get it to work again. Another advantage over satellite is that the it doesn’t go down in bad weather. Satellite simply had to hear a weather report and it would go down.
It’s fairly cheap, though, after the intial layout, it’s just the price of an additional cell line on an existing account. But, I do have a 40 gigabyte limit per month. That prevents Netflix or any other downloadables. Too slow plus too much data usage.
I spent my childhood in Summit County in the 1960s. Great place to grow up.
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