How is this even possible in 2024? I realize Rochester isn’t exactly a major metropolis, but we’re in the middle of town! It’s not like they’re relying on Hughesnet or something.
Also, it’s not that they’re cheaping out on us either. The owners live upstairs. This is a duplex.
if the listing advertised “high-speed internet” or anything with the wording “high-speed”, then i’d call AirBNB and complain until i either got a partial refund or a rebooking elsewhere. Rate 1-star and post as many complaints as possible on as many social media outlets as possible with the full name of the AirBnB host. Name and Shame.
Basically, be as big a nightmare as possible (without getting kicked out) until either it gets fixed or until you get enough money back to make you feel better.
edit:
The owners live upstairs.
i wouldn’t let them sleep a wink until that’s 50Mb/s+ both up and down. should be at least 100Mb/s, but 50Mb/s is manageable.
They’re fucking you while on vacation, and i would make their live a LIVING HELL. being cheap has consequences…
Who hurt you?
I’m here with my mother (also mildly infuriating) who chose it and is paying for it, so I’ll have to talk to her about it, thanks.
It doesn’t change anything. I just never saw the listing, which is why I had to talk to her about it.
Or, hear me out, they could just be a polite human and ask about the issue before jumping to conclusions? It could be a simple case of them restarting the network to fix it. Throwing a tantrum over this without any other information or communication is just pathetic, why would that be your gut reaction?
Making their life a living hell is a far cry from complaining. What you suggested is childish, petty, and probably would get OP banned from AirBNB.
My dude you said you’d make their life living hell, the fact that you don’t consider that harassment says a lot about the kind of person you are. No wonder you’re so unhappy.
Some people just need any excuse to get mad and feel like they have control over something.
Yeah, not doing that. In fact, if I don’t have to see or talk to them the entire time I’m here, I’ll be happy about that part of this trip. I didn’t particularly want to stay in an AirBnB in the first place, but I’m not the one paying. I would have honestly been fine with a Motel 6 or whatever.
Re you’re edit: I’m not here on vacation, I’m here to go to the Mayo clinic. But they close up at 3, so it would be nice to come back to decent wifi. Thankfully, I realized I can just use my phone as a hotspot. The only problem is my iPhone and my Mint Linux notebook won’t play nice, so I have to tether one to the other via USB to get it to work rather than via the WiFi connection. No idea why, but it won’t get to the authentication part when I connect to the WiFi. But that’s better than what I had before.
to me, that makes it even more egregious. i’d send them a bill for your data plan, and i’d also browbeat them for putting someone critically ill, who is visiting the mayo clinic, until they got the issue fixed immediately.
some people think they can take advantage of people like you and your mother, and i’d make sure they never did that again, not to anyone, ever.
i’d get on the phone with AirBnB and be such a unimaginable nightmare, that they’d do anything just to shut me up.
i’ve been extremely successful at this.
edit: i once had a similar issue at a crappy hotel with bad internet service. i called their corporate office and threatened a federal lawsuit and had a lawyer buddy of mine throw some legalese at them (an obvious bluff). had them shook. 5 minutes later, the “we can’t do anything” magically turned into “oh, we fixed the problem” and my internet speed was magically fixed.
sometimes, you just havae to out-asshole the asshoels to get what you paid for.
Thankfully, I have unlimited data, so it’s not a cost issue. Just a bit irritating that I had to resort to this.
Also, I really don’t think they’re trying to take advantage of us. Someone else said that this is some rural ISP that for some reason people in much of Rochester use.
at least there’s internet
In the same sense of ‘at least there’s heat’ in a room with a space heater and an open window.
are you sure about that, I’ve had real shitty internet that usually didn’t work, bad analogy.
Okay, a faulty space heater.
not closer closed window goes closer
closed window, faulty space heater & fireplace that only has fires last for a few seconds
Pretty sure that’s against the Geneva Convention.
On the one hand, this is normally fine at an Airbnb because you should be on vacation and thus out and doing stuff.
On the other hand, you’re in Rochester, MN, and I’d imagine the main reason people would get an AirBNB there is to be near family who are inpatient, so the hosts should be catering to that…
Agreed, but my mother is a nutcase.
I would do my impression of a dialup modem but can’t convey those sounds.
Is this the ISP saying “you may experience speeds up to” and then gives you this?
Can you plug in? May be better.
Or carrier pigeon.
Wow, that’s almost as fast as my phone’s hotspot!!
“How does your network availability compare with your expectations”
Hope you enjoy reading these comments in 3-5 days
the access point is probably upstairs and blocked by several objects
Is the signal strength really low?
No. Quite strong in fact. 75% strength according to Mint’s WiFi menu thingie that shows signal strength.
What WiFi version?
I honestly have no idea how to figure that out.
On android it tells you. Not that it matters that much but I was curious about the age of the AP.
At this point, if your phone doesn’t have the 6 on the wifi symbol it’s old.
That’s what you get for going to America’s second best Rochester.
That being said, people don’t normally go there for good reasons. Hope you’re healthy
I am not, I am sorry to say. It’s a very long story which I’ve retold way too many times on Lemmy. Let’s just say that I have no idea what I’ll do if this doesn’t work out.
Sorry to hear that dude. I work in healthcare, so feel free to DM me if I can ever help (not clinical, so don’t ask for medical advice lol, but navigating the system or anything like that)
I appreciate it, thanks. I just posted some good news on that front!
That all sounds rough, but I’m glad you’ve had some progress! My mom has TN and has really valued going to a regular support group, FWIW.
No support group like that in my town as far as I know. Also, I’m a major TN outlier. Technically it’s ATN- the A standing for atypical. Aside from some unusual symptoms, I’m also much younger than the average person who gets it- I’m in my mid-40s and most people get it when they’re over 70- I’m also male and women get it much more often. Oddly enough, my father also had it, but in his 70s as is more normal. It also just went away for him after a while thankfully. Not for me though.
This is your ISP’s pricing list:
https://www.radiolinkinternet.com/Plans.html
$55
15mbps down / 5mbps up
$65
22mbps down / 7mbps up
$85
30mbps down / 10mbps up
Call
-other speeds up to 1000mbps Wireless are available-
They’re a rural fixed wireless provider. I don’t understand why they would try to serve the middle of the town.
I would personally consider getting a refund, but the hotels there aren’t that much better for speeds. The city /does/ have good internet access available, i don’t understand why nobody purchases it :(
Holy highway robbery.
It is and it isn’t, those are pretty standard fixed wireless rates. It’s largely used in pretty rural areas where you wouldn’t be able to get fiber or cable or often even DSL. They compete against things like hughesnet that’s more expensive and has something like a 15gb data cap. Or starlink for $150 a month and $500 of equipment and the weight on your soul of giving Elon money.
They often run wireless backhauls for tens of miles across multiple towers so bandwidth is pretty limited and setup and maintenance is somewhat specialized. Like yeah if you can get cable or fiber do that it’s way better. But when there’s no other option is not that bad all things considered.
Oh I missed it was wireless.
Its still expensive. I get better speeds from 5g/LTE. I live in very rural farm town usa. My LTE is through T-Mobile for $45/mo and average speeds of 80x20mpbs. Peaks around 200mbps down and 180upload.
I do have the antenna pointed directly at the tower above the tree line.
Wave form antenna kit - $400 Spitz modem - $400 But my only alternative was starlink so the ROI on this setup was real fast compared. I also have a Verizon simcard as a hot fail over. But that Sim is data capped. I work from home in IT so I need the Internets.
Ive thought about side hustling my setup and selling it to my neighbors. But it would just congest my tower more… Lol
Often they serve areas where there’s basically no cell coverage. That’s why we used them when we did after trying a number of antennas and boosters. We’ve had neighbors put up 12m towers in conjunction with the WISP to get service.
I don’t get it either. I am doing a little better tethering my notebook to my phone using the local data, although I don’t think it’s 5G. Unfortunately, I have an iPhone and a Linux notebook and I can’t seem to figure out a way to get the notebook to connect to the iPhone via WiFi. I can only use it tethered via USB. Which means that if I want to go into another room and not lose internet, I need to carry them both around. Annoying, but at least the internet is faster. I should have thought of it earlier.
This is bizarre, I looked and Rochester Minnesota has multiple high speed providers, including two that offer fiber.
And the isp you have is a wireless isp that doesn’t even list Rochester as within its coverage area, they’re intended to serve more rural areas west of the city. On their map it gets close to but not quite in Rochester, but maybe they’re still able to access it (slowly) since it’s a wireless provider.
I’m guessing this is a whoever owns your Airbnb problem rather than a Rochester Minnesota problem. I don’t understand why they would be paying for this rather than use any of the readily available high speed options there.
Sounds like maybe that’s true about it being them.
