Slow internet and Firefox problems

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5. This is what's happening

Last edited Thu Jul 20, 2017, 02:24 PM - Edit history (1)

Taken me days to diagnose, but anything local to Philly area is pretty fast.
Any sites in western Canada or Europe are very fast.

Anything financial in areas outside Philly - Atlanta, Washington, West Coast
is very slow, often just hangs for an hour or more, or is simply totally unavailable.
NONE of this happens at 7 am. It all occurs after 9 am through 5 pm. Evenings are
pretty normal.

So when eTrade did a traceroute 2.5 weeks ago and told me it all stops west of Philly,
they were right. There is a bottleneck. Something is out of service.

So they are doing something - upgrading, rerouting, operating at reduced bandwidth to
faciliate such. I can't even get through to Verizon tech support. Today the connection
to digital support - the voice person on Verizon? - was fuzzy. They couldn't even understand
me.

all I get from Verizon is Upsell

I'd be calling them 5 times a day

I plan to accelerate my online business and get it done over the next 6-12 months
because I'm getting off Verizon at some point. I can go get public Wifi twice a week.

They blame it on me or just ignore it. That's why tech support is in Asia. No accountability.
Not even domestic wire fraud!