Still frame from hidden camera footage of SCP-2030-1 revealing itself.
Description: SCP-2030 is an anomalous phenomenon that manifests as a television series. The medium through which SCP-2030 manifests changes depending on the most popular format currently in use; as of 2014, SCP-2030 most commonly inserts itself into automated DVD rental kiosks, file sharing websites, and paid on-demand video streaming services. Prior to 2012, SCP-2030 commonly manifested as a DVD set in video rental stores, and as VHS tapes prior to 2003. Thus far, no reliable evidence that SCP-2030 manifestions took place prior to the year 1993 has been discovered; however, thirty-eight (38) seasons of programming are known to exist, implying that SCP-2030 has been active to some degree since 1976.
What. The. Fuck. In fact, WTF is that whole site?!? Itâs like someone took all the wacko-spam-manifesto emails my office gets every day and distilled them into a website.
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Rent a router? My ISP here in Norway, Telenor, just sends me a new one whenever they upgrade the system, Same with my previous ISP, Tele2. The house was wired with cat5 before wifi came along so I just add the old one to a cable to make sure that wifi covers the whole house. Never heard of anyone renting a router and only people in need of very special features would buy one.
Do yourself a favor and stay in Norway. We get a total rip-off raw deal for internet and cell service in the US. Nearly the slowest networks in the developed world at nearly the highest prices.
Itâs our way of competing with North Korea. We challenged the USSR to be the first to the moon, now weâre challenging them to be the worst at connectivity. Weâll win. Weâre the USA.
It sounds like youâre renting a router; they just arenât breaking out the cost of the router separate from the basic service charges in your bill.
A lot of ISPs in the US have discovered that they can make more money by breaking out the router rental as a separate charge. Most people donât realize that they can (or donât want to go to the trouble to) use their own router, and just pay the rental charge. Some ISPs have gone a step further by using proprietary routers that are required for service (or at least if you want to use certain features of the service, like VOIP telephone service, or in some cases TV on-screen programming guides).
As mentioned above, youâre renting it, itâs just not a separate line item on your bill.
All ISPs here in Canada offer modem rentals, and most (if not all) of their modems also have built in wifi routers (as a âfeatureâ). But most will let you bring your own modem as well, these days, and you can use your own router with all of them, if you want (I just disabled the wifi on my modem).
FFS, there is not anything âbackwardsâ about wired networking. Progress means that something was improved upon, and wireless computer networking has never been as fast, secure, nor easy as most wired approaches. Of course, it can be better and easier as a solution to some specific problems, but this does not make it generally better. The problem with using consumer electronics as a benchmark of progress is that companies donât even offer you what works best, but rather, they try to generate a lot of buzz about whatever they think should be âgood enoughâ, while being cheap enough to favor their profit margins. Sure, this has always been the case, to some extent. But sometimes the path of iterative compromises calls attention to itself.
Itâs more a matter of choosing the right tool for the job. Whiify might be the best choice for connecting you tablet that you wander around with. But even if it is, doesnât mean that it is your best choice for everything else as well, as some tur-key solutions might lead people to assume.
Not a techie here, but we were having deep, deep wireless issues. Very big house, lots of users hogging bandwidth esp when it came to TV time (a few kids and us all on diff Netflix/Hulu at the same time), and an aging crappy router. Every day Iâd have to reset it once, twice, thrice â and half the time it just plumb didnât send signal where signal was needed, even with repeaters (which were their own headache)
Bought an Archer C9, installed it as a bridge two months back â
Holy crap, weâre in bandwidth heaven. It looks bizarre, yes, but I really donât care, and neither does anyone else, far as I can tell. Everything just works wonderfully, as it should.
So get whatever router you want, but trust me, donât worry about the look. Youâll forget it as youâre d/ling or streaming or doing all those other things we should be able to do perfectly here in Back to The Future landâŚ
Virtually all low end routers suck because the manufacturers can save a nickel or two by leaving heatsinks off the radio chip and cpu. As soon as the warranty expires they die a slow heat death.
Hey, if you really need to extend range, and WIFI ainât cutting it, you can always try one of the Powerline network adapters. They send signals through the electrical wiring, and if you have the right configuration and fat enough wiring in your house, you can get about 800mbps between power adapters. Iâve been using a set of powerline adapters for years now. Theyâre not the best, actually they were pretty cheapo, and the worst issue Iâve had so far is I need to unplug them and re-plug them about once a year. I donât know why, but they lock up occasionally, and I canât get out to the internet until both adapters are power cycled.
It happens rarely enough that itâs not a big deal to me, and Iâm sure if you spent more than $40 on a set, youâd get better results.
Make sure that you buy from a place with reasonable return policies, as sometimes, they simply do not work. Or a set from one manufacturer may not work, while a set from another manufacturer does. Your mileage, very much, may vary.
