Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
I work at home for possibly the top company in their field supporting an internet based product. I’ve been there over 5 years. Until the last few months our vpns never went down, now it drops at least once per call.
My home internet, which worked flawlessly for 5 years with maybe 3 outages in those years has been dropping at least once each day or more.
When the vpn drops my internet is still working, l can hear the other devices working.
The people l speak to across the country report the same with their internet service. Something has certainly changed.
Same with me.
Agreed something is different but it's always slow so can't determine if it's a fluke of just crappy service. I'm rural and lucky to have internet if I was five miles farther out I wouldn't have any. Probably because I'm beside a school we were the first to get it twenty years ago. Back then my speed was 20 and now I'm paying for 10 lucky if I get 7. Was Sprint then Centurylink now Brightspeed. It's always crawling but this week it's gone out several times a day. Had SOS (no bars) on my phone several times in the last 24 hours. Drive there hours to the coast and we get 300 speed.