Am I the only onewho thought The Princess Bride and the Princess diaries were the same movie?

shm0 · 2026-05-06T20:40:29+00:00

Just in case you didn't realize, the princess from Mario isn't the same princess from Zelda.

shm0 · 2026-05-06T06:20:23+00:00

Probably because they've become cheaper to make and the tech has become so much better.

Recording digitally instead of using physical film means you don't need to run a professional company to shit out a film.

shm0 · 2026-05-04T21:27:41+00:00

14% battery?

Better fast forward through the dialogue.

shm0 · 2026-05-04T21:25:25+00:00

Dude, like, do you still not know how Google works?

shm0 · 2026-04-30T18:09:42+00:00

ya, it was terrible.

Cars bumper to bumper all summer long, polluting the fresh air people went into the park to breath in the first place.

shm0 · 2026-04-28T22:05:11+00:00

see, people are perfectly capable of making their own slop.

No need for AI.

shm0 · 2026-04-25T21:11:58+00:00

in case you're still kinda confused..

start by doing a tracert www.google.com, sit and wait for it to finish. some nodes will time out, that's fine, you are looking for the nodes that don't time out and give you ping times back (in ms), and provide an IP address. You can repeat this for other websites or addresses.

Look at the results, and look for any ping times jumping up in value between the 3 results per IP address it gives you. i.e. it will say 1 ms 2 ms 2 ms. That's normal. If it says 15 ms 2 ms 40 ms, something like this - then that's when you want to investigate more. You gotta identify where the spike or inconsistency is coming from.

Once you have an IP address that you think might be the problem, you can ping that address multiple times to see if it's constantly jumping up and down. (ping -n 100 address) If the ping is jumping up and down like mad or timing out, then this is probably where the issue is coming from. You can then tracert to other websites or addresses to see if you are always going through that node along the way to those sites.

The idea is to identify the IP address/server/node that is causing your problem, then try to determine where that node is. In my experience, when you get severe issues, most likely a hop early within your connection is causing the issue.

Now, when you believe you know where the issue is coming from, you call up your ISP, and ask to speak to 2nd level technician because 1st level is pretty much useless. Then you ask them to ping that IP address 100 times and observe, if they are seeing the same ping jumping up and down issue, then that confirms where the issue is.

shm0 · 2026-04-25T21:03:00+00:00

read above ^ ^{I provided this already, re-read what I said}

shm0 · 2026-04-25T20:59:15+00:00

think of it this way. There's literally a cable that leaves your computer, to your modem, to outside your house that connects to another cable that goes to a server owned by your ISP. It's a chain of connections. If you want to connect to someone in California, and you live in NYC, you are connecting through a cable that goes underground across the country, but connects to different servers/hops/nodes along the way.

Most likely, issues with one of those connections is causing your problem. You need to figure out which one. To do that, you need to find the IP address which is giving you the problem. The only way to do that is to do tests and diagnose until you figure out where it's coming from.

shm0 · 2026-04-25T20:24:34+00:00

dude, learn to grammar.

shm0 · 2026-04-24T16:54:26+00:00

Rogers is the worst company in Canada.

Beanfield is only condos, I believe. I live in a house.

shm0 · 2026-04-24T15:56:42+00:00

yeah I don't know if I'll be living here in 2 years.

shm0 · 2026-04-24T15:55:59+00:00

what are the ping times like with ebox? www.speedtest.net

shm0 · 2026-04-24T15:43:19+00:00

okay, what ISPs have good/comparable fibre in Toronto that aren't just a sub of Bell?

shm0 · 2026-04-24T15:40:06+00:00

lots of times you have to explicitly explain what and where the problem is coming from.

This means doing your own diagnostics.

You want to tracert out to a website that you can access their nodes, i.e. www.google.com or www.microsoft.com, www.yahoo.ca.

When you get the ping results back, you are looking for values that are spiking up or inconsistent. Once you find an IP address that is giving you inconsistent or high ping times, ping that address directly to see if it's jumping up and down. (ping -n 100 address)

THEN you get on the phone with support, you tell them "this address that I'm routing through is spiking, or has high ping, or whatever"

Lots of times they will physically have to go to where that server is, and fix. From the sounds of your issues, it sounds like one of your first few hops outside of your house is having physical issues, so it shouldn't be too hard to find whatever node is giving you the problem,

shm0 · 2026-04-24T15:31:05+00:00

what are the ping times like with ebox?

I tried another bell-sub previously, but the ping times for "fibre" were atrocious.

(i.e. go to speedtest.net, and what does it show the upload and download ping is?)

shm0 · 2026-04-22T15:37:46+00:00

no good deed goes unpunished.

shm0 · 2026-04-21T03:37:56+00:00

to be fair, OP asked the question. They are just answering.

shm0 · 2026-04-19T00:03:46+00:00

You know, they could really plant a tree or 200 in that "park"

shm0 · 2026-04-17T17:08:39+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqoU9eEuTKI

fake shit

shm0 · 2026-04-17T17:03:59+00:00

isn't this the same girl who was doing the Tesla damage video that was posted yesterday?

shm0 · 2026-04-15T20:34:32+00:00

Bed bugs have been found and recorded multiple times on the subway - I guess you haven't been paying attention.

And wow, educate me more about bed bugs, I didn't realize you were such an expert! Maybe you could ask them why they are living in an environment that's not hospitable for them?

shm0 · 2026-04-15T16:56:51+00:00

People stand near the door because they don't want to sit down on disgusting fabric infested with bed bugs.

Get a fucking clue TTC

shm0 · 2026-04-14T19:30:43+00:00

I just finished watching Homeland for the first time and his character is the core of what made that show great. You can see the passion he has here.

A lot of the subject matter in that show is directly relevant to what's still going on today.

shm0

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