My internet provider is trying to convince me to upgrade my old modem to one with wifi 5. Should i upgrade or not? I am concerned about all the radio waves turning me gay.I feel a little suspicious since they kept pushing me to upgrade. They called me once a couple months ago and i already declined but they called again today.Why would they give away shit for free?
>>1499081u can disable 5g in router settings
>>1499081>I am concerned about all the radio waves turning me gay.I promise you it won't. If it does, I will personally help you find a nice boyfriend or a conversion therapy camp, your choice.
>>1499081Lots of non-internet devices use 2.4 GHz. They can interfere with your internet connection. 5 GHz is different tech entirely, and very little can interfere with it.>Why would they give away shit for free?They're trying to make sure you don't have a shitty internet connection. They don't want you to think their service is shitty, ie. complaining to customer support when it appears to not work properly, or worse, switching to a competitor. The cost of the modem is worth it to minimize complaints and cancellations.
watch a few dozen hours of gay porn now on your 2.4ghz wifi to build up resistance before the switchover, then you'll be safe.
>>1499081The 5g coronawaves does make you gay, you already are gay
Don't do it if you have Spectrum as your ISP, themodem and router they sent me are a pain in the ass.Every once and a while my modem glitches and all it shows is a red light for the battery, which it doesn't even fucking have.And to restart it I have to unplug and plug it jn again within 20 seconds of doing the same thing to the wifi router.Now wait about 5 minutes to see if it works; the modem with fading in and out white and blue, the wifi red and blueish-green.When it's finally good, the modem will have two blue lights, so dark you can barely tell that they are on.See the image provided, now darken those LEDs until you can't see them unless you're staring at them from 2 feet away.Want to alter any settings?Have to make an account online, and one of the biggest complaints on some gaming forums is half the settings aren't actually implemented at all.
>>1499081https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10914500/>Detrimental impact of cell phone radiation on sperm DNA integrity
https://www.gq.com/story/warning-cell-phone-radiation
>>1499081nice theory but my theory is that the wifi isn't even the culprit on sudden gay syndrome. it's the LTE-A/+ frequencies that came out when the gay stuff increased. wifi5 won't do any harm outside of maybe the new router being shittier or unstable, having higher jitters, and overheating. I have a wifi5 router while it is fast its temps goes up to 80C. just look for that specific model they're upgrading you to and see how much negative opinion is on it.
>>1499081Wifi5 is over 10 years old now retard, 7 is releasing soon. Your shitbox router is already broadcasting on 5GHz as per wifi 4 and some older specs. The want you to upgrade as if your old modem, then its a 15 year old piece of junk that hasnt been updated for years (and will never be any more) and probablyh has some Israeli or Chink botnet installed on it already.
>>1499081>I am concerned about all the radio waves turning me gayIs this guy trolling?2.4GHz is outdated
>>1499166>>1499177No shit anything and everything may be harmful to you.
>>1499081>My internet provider is trying to convince me to upgrade>Why would they give away shit for free?ISPs often prefer customers to use their provided modems because it gives them more control over the network settings and troubleshooting processes. They can also automatically query their modems since the onboard software may be customized with features for that ISP.If you are worried about privacy, then get a VPN so that your traffic is encrypted between your PC and the VPN provider. Thus the ISP and its modem cannot be the "Man In The Middle" especially if the ISP voluntarily cooperates with the police or federal government to provide monitoring services without requiring a warrant. Remember that s search warrant is not necessary if access is voluntarily provided. The purpose of a search warrant is to overcome deliberate resistance against observation.
>>1499859>Man In The Middlehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attackIn the age of AI, a lot of impractical concepts or operations become practical.
>>1499859Whole lotta bullshit.Your software and hardware of itself is compromise.Those proxy service also serves as MITM>>1499860Its still a rudimentary technique.
>>1499081>for free?Remind me again what your bill is.
>>1499081if it's not broke, don't fix it OP.5ghz means two things: less interference from other devices (until you and all your neighbors plug their shit to 5ghz too), and less covering distance. i have both activated on my router, and 5ghz can't reach me if i'm 20 feet away from the router, but 2.4ghz is still reliable at distance.i think what your isp is doing is the same shit every corporate call agent does, meet his fucking quota of enrolling new customers to some new bullshit idea management believes is the right move rn. you wouldn't have cared much about 2.4 / 5ghz until your isp pushed these ideas into your brain. if you do agree to it, nothing will ultimately change for your experience, but you'll be helping some employee get promoted.
>>1499970>helping some employee get promoted.It might not be an actual telephone or ISP employee. For example, such an "employee" contacted me to upgrade my ISP service and of course purchase the modem to go with that service. I told them I was happy with my existing modem but he gave a hard sell to have my modem replaced by one approved by CenturyLink. He used all the buzzwords mentioned in this thread to help sell that modem: IMPROVED SPEED, more SAFETY, more SECURITY, more RELIABILITY, etcetera. I know it was the usual FUD buzzword show because I told him my modem had never failed, so he switched tack and kept trying to sell their new modem.Was he a real employee. No, he was a Contract Employer working at home can using his PC and a program supplied by Centurylink to call all sorts of existing CenturyLink customers to find ways to get more money out of them. There's no Covid of note now, so no need to call from home unless he is a contract employee. Contract employees are not real employees in my book. They are given sales targets. And their main income on the contract are the incentives and not the base pay.
Probably want 6e, so you can have higher speeds closer to the router an automatically swap to 2ghz when you’re farther away.
