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I can't believe it tastes different (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I just want to say, as someone who is quite tech literate, these kinds of questions are incredibly annoying to get through. I called my ISP, and they tried walking me through restarting my router when I could ping their gateway already, but not the outside world (e.g. 1.1.1.1).

But then again, I've worked tech support and have been on the other end with tech illiterate people, so I get it.

I just wish "shibboleet" was a real thing.

[–] SecretPancake@feddit.de 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh man that would be amazing. My ISP at some point stopped giving out modems with the internet contract and instead only offers these shitty routers with integrated modems. I read somewhere that you can still get a modem if you asked. So I called and spend 15 minutes trying to describe the difference between a router and a modem and gave up.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

When I had DSL, I bought my own modem and connected it to the same router I used at a previous place. They when to charge ~$10/month, so I spent about $20 and got a basic modem.

My current internet is Ethernet at the wall, so no need for a modem, and AFAIK the company doesn't even provide routers (didn't ask, I just used the one I had). All I needed was the gateway, netmask, and our static (CGNATed) IP. They wrote that in a piece of paper, which I keep in my safe so I don't need to call them just because I reset my router or something.

I think they know who I am by now because I call pretty much every time the Internet goes out. It's a small company (only serves my town of 30-40k people), and I'm probably the only one with a ln enterprise-y router (Mikrotik) with a separate AP (Ubiquiti). Yet I still need to do the basic troubleshooting before they'll actually look into the traffic on their end.

[–] SecretPancake@feddit.de 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I would like to just buy a modem but somehow I can’t find any cable modems in Germany. There are a few I could import from Amazon US but they apparently don’t support EuroDOCSIS. I used to have one from Cisco, provided by the ISP, that worked perfectly but with a contract change they demanded it back (a condition they did not tell me about and I’m still angry about that).

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't know anything about modems in Germany, but I found this. I got it from this Reddit thread.

[–] SecretPancake@feddit.de 2 points 5 months ago

Thanks, it looks like it could be something but it only has DOCSIS 3.0, I will need to check if that’s enough.

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately if shibboleet were a thing tech illiterate users would quickly learn it and use it every time.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Maybe a rotating key, like with TOTP?