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They're paying for coverage in that thunderstorm; that's the business expense to ensure connectivity for their remote widget. Why would your wifes employer com

They're paying for coverage in that thunderstorm; that's the business expense to ensure connectivity for their remote widget. Why would your wifes employer compensate for a tool that doesn't meet their needs?

Auracle 3y ago
It's so slow it's basically unusable for her. I don't know the full details of how her job works as far as uploads/downloads go but it seems that even with something 15x faster than that DSL connection she's often waiting a minute or two, and I know there have been times where she's been uploading something for 30+ minutes. Having those instances 10-15x slower would make it so she literally can't do her job. The hotspot worked just fine in thunderstorms and was significantly faster. I even had our router set up to automatically bump over to the hotspot for the rare occasions the Starlink went down.
- thirdsun 3y ago
  I mean your wife could probably explain her employer that the company is paying for a connection that doesn't provide enough bandwidth to do the job and that the money would be better spent on the Starlink connection. Of course they might just conclude that your remote location isn't compatible with the demands of the job though.
  - Auracle 3y ago
    Oh no, she tried. We would have much rather kept the Starlink + hotspot combination, but since they would pay for neither (and required the 'land line') we dropped the hotspot.
- plussed_reader 3y ago
  Except when the thunderstorm is very heavy and then it doesn't work, according to your post. So which is it? 'Basically Unusable' is not un-tenable or non-working. The only fulcrum your wife has is if the people she reports finds her slow timing unacceptable due to the connection; use the provided work tools and make everyone feel the pain. You're subsidizing their connection cost for free.
  - Auracle 3y ago
    I think there's been one thunderstorm like that in the day since she's started remote work two or three years ago, and the connection dropped for 10 minutes. We usually get storms like that in the evening, and that happens maybe 5 times a year. I guarantee the DSL has dropped way more than that. Before Starlink and the hotspot we had that's the service we used, and it was atrocious. It's just an old policy in a very large company that's slow to update their policies.

Auracle 3y ago

It's so slow it's basically unusable for her. I don't know the full details of how her job works as far as uploads/downloads go but it seems that even with something 15x faster than that DSL connection she's often waiting a minute or two, and I know there have been times where she's been uploading something for 30+ minutes. Having those instances 10-15x slower would make it so she literally can't do her job. The hotspot worked just fine in thunderstorms and was significantly faster. I even had our router set up to automatically bump over to the hotspot for the rare occasions the Starlink went down.

thirdsun 3y ago
I mean your wife could probably explain her employer that the company is paying for a connection that doesn't provide enough bandwidth to do the job and that the money would be better spent on the Starlink connection. Of course they might just conclude that your remote location isn't compatible with the demands of the job though.
- Auracle 3y ago
  Oh no, she tried. We would have much rather kept the Starlink + hotspot combination, but since they would pay for neither (and required the 'land line') we dropped the hotspot.
plussed_reader 3y ago
Except when the thunderstorm is very heavy and then it doesn't work, according to your post. So which is it? 'Basically Unusable' is not un-tenable or non-working. The only fulcrum your wife has is if the people she reports finds her slow timing unacceptable due to the connection; use the provided work tools and make everyone feel the pain. You're subsidizing their connection cost for free.
- Auracle 3y ago
  I think there's been one thunderstorm like that in the day since she's started remote work two or three years ago, and the connection dropped for 10 minutes. We usually get storms like that in the evening, and that happens maybe 5 times a year. I guarantee the DSL has dropped way more than that. Before Starlink and the hotspot we had that's the service we used, and it was atrocious. It's just an old policy in a very large company that's slow to update their policies.