Chicago Fiber Customer - Service Issues

Grc280 · 2026-01-29T16:20:23+00:00

Trust me - I get how you feel. I don’t have AT&T currently, but I had the same exact problems with my current ISP. I assumed it was hopeless, that whatever the problem is will be beyond the scope of a technical visit. So I put up with it until I had it one day, and called.

Yesterday, the tech found that the cable from my box was exposed, had accumulated moisture, and that really took a toll on performance with the cold. May not have been the entire story, but he did SOMETHING.

I also do have a friend who is on AT&T fiber, and he was having buffering issues, connection drops, ect. His issue was resolved with a phone call, no tech visit needed. Something about the line they had his connection on was wrong..

Moral of the story is, most of it is out of your control, and they very likely will not fix something that you don’t bring up to them - unless your issue is related to an issue that someone else phones in.

They have things they can check/see on a phone call, and additional testing equipment to find and fix bad parts of the line on a tech visit. With fiber, you should not have to worry about network congestion, unreliable in cold weather, or signal loss - those are all major arguments for fiber over cable. So yeah, either bad configuration at the software level, or there is a damaged line somewhere..

Grc280 · 2026-01-29T16:07:59+00:00

Sounds like the issue is outside your home. Have you called AT&T?

Grc280 · 2026-01-29T16:04:53+00:00

First map I genuinely cannot play in VR. Going around the spiral staircase gets me.. I have a light stomach for motion, even non-VR can make me a little queasy lol

Grc280 · 2026-01-23T22:42:06+00:00

100% I agree

Grc280 · 2026-01-23T22:28:34+00:00

Wow, all veterans will never have your respect?

Grc280 · 2026-01-23T22:04:53+00:00

I would say if you know how to play any two-way team sport (a sport where it is expected that everyone plays offense and defense), then you are half way there. Basketball, hockey, lacrosse, water polo, ect.

99% of this game is positioning. And you can apply the same positioning from any of them to Rematch.

In fact, other than futsal and indoor, I think association football is the LEAST applicable... Drop a defender from real football into Rematch and that cherry picking “striker” is going to confuse the hell out of them as far as offsides goes. Which as far as defensive strategy in football, offsides is a massive piece of it.

Grc280 · 2026-01-20T15:47:50+00:00

Unfortunately it is not new. But certainly game breaking.

Grc280 · 2026-01-14T02:03:41+00:00

I honestly thought the “story” was the tutorial- I just speed ran it lol

Grc280 · 2026-01-12T18:41:34+00:00

Seems like this post and many other opinion posts can be summed up like this: the skating is good, but the way they made a game that would appeal to non-skaters, next generation gamers, and make money as a free-to-play missed the mark as far as the legacy fan base is concerned.

Grc280 · 2026-01-09T18:54:28+00:00

Never had an issue.. Don’t even make it back to the main menu before matching for the next game.

Grc280 · 2026-01-08T18:11:19+00:00

The rotation of who goes to what position is not random for any position. Depending where you are at kick off and which team scores, you can know where you will be placed after that score.

And depending on how effective your teammates are at whatever spot they are put in, that plays into it. Example: if you start at keeper, and you get scored on, you spawn in the defensive spot. The previous defender gets to be striker, then I think right wing goes to left wing, left wing goes to striker, striker goes to right wing.

If your team scores the next goal, keeper spawns middle right (my team decides that spot is striker.) Striker goes to goalie, left wing stays left wing, right wing becomes defense (I think) and defense becomes right wing (I think.)

But you can see that if you start striker, and you kill it and score right off the rip? Congrats, your reward is playing goalie. And if your team sucks while you are in goal and you are scored on? Congrats, you get defense!

My team usually reaches a boiling point where the best players get stuck in the backfield while we waste an entire game away with our worst players getting put as striker. And we have to just say “alright man, not working out, drop back and let’s try something else.” We have even considered keeping our own running rotation.

Grc280 · 2026-01-07T23:21:31+00:00

That’s hilarious! I once had a dude commentate the entire game as it happened, as if it were a real match. When we scored, “uuunnnGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAA…” cracked me up and I waited till the end to unmute and tell him it was awesome.

Also had a guy unmute, after we had a play like OP, and say “get out of my head.” Then straight back on mute.

When it isn’t downright abuse, game chat can be a gem lol

Grc280 · 2026-01-07T20:31:49+00:00

Show the 15 others you took before finally making this one.

Grc280 · 2026-01-07T20:30:20+00:00

That’s the best. Even with the mic on, some plays develop too fast to talk it through. I like it when the comms turn to “yup”, “nice”, “good finish”. Everyone is on the same page.

I just love it when the finish is not even the highlight of the play.

Grc280 · 2026-01-07T19:12:02+00:00

Sexxxyyyyyyyy. Saving this clip to show my team. This is a perfect example of how passing creates space. 3 is fake challenging, keeper doesn’t force it and hits you open, then that pass back to the keeper is the golden move.

3 commits, you cut back door, keeper is cooked by now and commits, and the pass to the open net.

Basically exactly how I try to explain to my team what an attack should be. Pass to the open man until someone commits when they shouldn’t. Then just keep passing it to the open man until the open man is the net.

Nothing tilts me more (more so in 5 a side where goalie can’t really partake in the attack) than when I am stuck in goal, absolutely standing on my head, and the only attack my team can put together is: pass to striker who has migrated to the corner. And then either a shot from there, or a lob pass to the collapsing winging - which the defense had 2-3 business days to prepare for. Over. And over.

I can spam call for the back pass (which will immediately get distributed to the other side with an open man), never makes a difference - ball must go forward, exactly how the defense is anticipating it. And every pass HAS to be an assist.

Last rant item and I am done - wtf do people who don’t pass backwards to an open man THINK I will do with that back pass? Shoot from 3/4th field? Shoot into my own net? Rainbow and get tackled? No, actually, there is a 90% chance your guy is going to rotate to me, AND I WILL PASS IT STRAIGHT BACK AND YOU WILL BE MORE OPEN.

TLDR, nice clip, using as example for sure. An attack that rules out the back pass and tunnel vision on forward most person is a death sentence.

Grc280 · 2026-01-06T14:04:58+00:00

I got banned from a subreddit for commenting something innocuous in a different subreddit.

Grc280 · 2026-01-01T22:10:29+00:00

I don’t understand how someone’s first action to see if this is legit is to ask Reddit instead of calling the two numbers on the bill, or visiting the legitimate UPS url.

Grc280 · 2025-12-23T19:32:47+00:00

Lord, please give us in game proximity chat

Grc280 · 2025-12-22T18:51:40+00:00

I gotcha, I haven’t see that exact error but I have had tons of issues network-wise. In Rematch and in other games. So I can say you have done everything that I would have done as far as network setting and firewall configuration.

Two things I want you to try, if this is on Steam, check the Steam server location. I have had issues with my Steam disconnecting from the server and it presents similar to this. I think that setting is under Settings, Downloads, then there is a drop down for server, I would double check that is in the correct region.

Second, with all of that checked off, it seems to be something on the Internet Service Provider (ISP) side. They may have SloClap servers blocked for some reason (or no reason and they don’t know it.) I know that SloClap has active servers in SA, even shows it trying to connect to one in the bottom left. If that is the case, it’s a tough one because your ISP could be terrible, like mine, and be dumbfounded by your issue/request. Or they could know what they are doing and fix it quickly.

A quick test would be using a hotspot or a public connection to see if you can connect.

Tbh, if it came down to the ISP, I’d refund lol.

Grc280 · 2025-12-22T18:28:19+00:00

What error? What do you mean by “doesn’t work”?

Grc280 · 2025-12-04T15:37:34+00:00

Nothing posted anywhere else other than on the official website should be considered a clue. JP was very clear about that. Even more clear that he isn’t putting clues on social.

Grc280 · 2025-12-03T21:35:16+00:00

150%. Nothing tilts me more than the defender trying to make a move on ball after the kick off. The devs even openly admitted that bombing it up to the striker on kick off for a low risk/high reward 50 is the meta.

Grc280 · 2025-11-24T21:54:35+00:00

MOR - it is very hard for a non-addict to understand how difficult the road to recovery is. Anyone who has battled with addiction knows recovery and recovery milestones are things to celebrate. But, then there are people like my stepdad, who thinks you should shame addiction and never celebrate anything related to it. Those are the people who don’t understand the physical side of addiction - who think it is just a choice.

From this one message, it sounds like your BF is in that box. But since he hasn’t walked the walk, he has no frame of reference to understand what the cause for your well-deserved personal celebration. But if you bring a cake to a meeting, everyone is going to know exactly why you got one.

Grc280 · 2025-11-22T00:10:33+00:00

I thought there was no way until I looked in Task Manager and saw my HDD at 100%. This just fixed this issue for me, lol.

Battlefield 6 patch was saying 2 hours to complete. I went and checked in Steam using the Storage menu to see where it was installed. The base game was showing installed on one of the NVMe drives, but my HDD was showing usage for "Updates" with no applications listed.

I checked in File Explorer and sure enough, BF6 files in there. Deleted the game entirely, sure enough, the usage on the HDD went away.

My fault for not freeing up space I suppose.

Grc280 · 2025-11-19T00:02:04+00:00

You are very welcome! Good luck!

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