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New Our internet is worse than the phone
I can't trust the phone to hold a call. I can't trust M's phone far worse.

While it seems that we may have connectivity at any given moment it will pause. Websurfing is rarely affected since 90% my time is reading. But you can tell for videos.

YouTube Music seems to stream just fine so something tells me it is caching well.

My phone seems to handle the Wi-Fi fall back usage a bit better than M's but M can have 20 minutes of absolutely no voice and no texts. Emails may or may not go through the same time. My phone will work at that time. She's got a 3-year-old apple, I have a 2-year-old pixel. I'm not going down the Apple support hole and she's not touching an Android device. We are a mixed couple.

But she just ordered a Chromebook for her usage so I have an opening. It'll be a year or two before I move her if ever.


They claim to be laying fiber between us and the main road but I have no idea if it'll make it any better or how long it will take. For all I know they're patching a 10-ft cable somewhere. I have minimal ground-based alternatives at this location. I'd love to take Comcast right now if I could.

I will probably end up with a satellite connection. But they want multi-year commitments, cap usage and have seriously expensive data price points.

I'd give Musk my money but it's not available here, and you have to give them money to be put on a waiting list. Not going to happen.
New Does your phone support wifi calling?
Might need carrier support for this.
New Yes but it doesn't help with the crappy internet
We will get a pause for anywhere from 10 seconds to 2 minutes at least every hour. It is obvious when watching Netflix or Hulu or HBO or prime.

It rarely affects my web surfing so I get to ignore it. I can handle an occasional entertainment pause.

But it destroys the phone's ability to maintain a Wi-Fi call. In my phone I might be able to make use of it 5 minutes later. In M's phone it causes some internal crap that flips out her networking and pretty much everything else for a while and she's not going to be getting any phone calls at that point. Mine works while I'm sitting next to her and hers doesn't. Sometime later hers will start working, maybe it got rebooted and maybe it didn't.

And even if we can do fallback Wi-Fi for the voice call, texts really require a cell connection. I'm sure I could come up with some forwarding juggling situation but I'm not going to do that.

That comes down to me going insane trying to support an Apple specific problem, at least Apple specific here. And I don't do Apple. Not that I'm angry with them, I've just crossed the point of being unable to flip back and forth between the Apple and Android interface seamlessly and I'm sticking with the Android rather than being confused by the Apple.

The moment I attempt to do anything that alters M's current phone configuration, add software, forces her to click one button, I own 100% support of every interaction with that phone from that moment forward.

Not going to do it.
     Recommendation for cell extender - (crazy) - (26)
         Google Fi connects over WiFi, is that an option? - (drook) - (3)
             Our internet is worse than the phone - (crazy) - (2)
                 Does your phone support wifi calling? - (pwhysall) - (1)
                     Yes but it doesn't help with the crappy internet - (crazy)
         T-Mobile used to have such things. - (Another Scott)
         And M decided to do something - (crazy) - (20)
             👍 -NT - (Another Scott)
             Heh - (pwhysall) - (18)
                 I was given one with my very first cell phone - (drook) - (17)
                     Yeah it's a different value equation depending if they have the cell towers and the bandwidth versus - (crazy) - (16)
                         buy the neighbor a 5g tshirt -NT - (boxley)
                         Well, it reduces how strong a signal your phone has to send out. - (a6l6e6x) - (14)
                             While my phone power signal requirement is low, I'm bathed in the frequencies - (crazy) - (13)
                                 The frequencies and power levels aren't bio-active - (Another Scott) - (12)
                                     I'm imprinted by thank you for smoking - (crazy) - (11)
                                         Good movie. - (Another Scott)
                                         " And there is definitely a connection between high cell phone usage and brain tumors." - (pwhysall) - (6)
                                             It doesn't have to be ionizing radiation to trigger cellular changes. - (crazy) - (5)
                                                 Changes =/= Disease. - (Another Scott) - (2)
                                                     Accepted - (crazy) - (1)
                                                         Yup. Nothing you can do about it. - (Another Scott)
                                                 I just gave you the science - (pwhysall) - (1)
                                                     Yeah but you were an a****** at the moment. - (crazy)
                                         Meanwhile, ... - (Another Scott) - (2)
                                             So, you've never cooked meat with a kitchen microwave? :) - (a6l6e6x) - (1)
                                                 Yup. - (Another Scott)

Here, have another hor'd'ouevre.
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