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[galaxyAbstractor]

Should I switch ISP? This is happening ~2 - 5 times every day nowadays...

I wanna switch to 50 - 100 MBPS fibre optics at another provider, and it's 30 SEK cheaper per month, but my mother refuses. Any ideas how I could force her?

 

[Sharky]

Buy a gun?

Oh, you meant 'Any ideas how I could persuade her?'... Use a combination of Excel and PowerPoint, produce a slideshow, lots of graphs. Use words like 'inflation', 'price-to-earnings ratio', 'RPI', etc., and show her what she could get with 30 SEK per month. OR... is there a package that's the same price but FASTER?

 

[xav0989]

Should I switch ISP? This is happening ~2 - 5 times every day nowadays...

I wanna switch to 50 - 100 MBPS fibre optics at another provider, and it's 30 SEK cheaper per month, but my mother refuses. Any ideas how I could force her?

Explain why you want to change. Wait some time. Ask her to explain why she doesn't want to switch. Then go through a worst case scenario.

 

[galaxyAbstractor]

Buy a gun?

Oh, you meant 'Any ideas how I could persuade her?'... Use a combination of Excel and PowerPoint, produce a slideshow, lots of graphs. Use words like 'inflation', 'price-to-earnings ratio', 'RPI', etc., and show her what she could get with 30 SEK per month. OR... is there a package that's the same price but FASTER?

Eh, seriously? PowerPoint? This is the fastest package for that price, the fastest package (50 - 100 MBPS both ways is 599 SEK/month, while 50 - 100 MBPS down and 8 - 10 MBPS up is 339 SEK/month). We currently pay 369-ish SEK/month for 24 mbps down and 1 mbps up

Explain why you want to change. Wait some time. Ask her to explain why she doesn't want to switch. Then go through a worst case scenario.

She thinks it will cost more, I think (Well, I think she means cost more in the end, because then we need to buy new router etc) + I think she is afraid of switching stuff xD.

 

[Smith6612]

Show her some advanced maths of cost per megabit vs. download speeds, as well as hammer away at your connections download and upload simultaneously by seeding/downloading a crap load of torrents to slow the connection to a crawl >:3. If you have DSL, remove a DSL filter and pick up the phone and keep it picked up until the DSL syncs. It'll be nice and slow. If you have Cable, just find some cheapo splitters that will add a lot of attenuation to the line, causing the cable modem to fail to sync correctly She'll have to be convinced eventually. Fiber optics is the way to go, too bad I'm stuck with Cable or DSL here at the moment. Also, the fact that it's cheaper and faster should immediately ring a bell with her. Who can't take that, given the line isn't capped and throttled?

Also changing out routers are nothing to fret about. A trusty router many people who use Verizon FiOS like to use is the D-Link DIR-655 router (D-Link has many newer ones that are much faster). And of course if you want to venture down the route I run my network with, you can build your own out of spare PCs and parts.