Xfinity Service Got So Bad Yesterday

Good morning everyone,

Yesterday afternoon at about 345 PM, I noticed a sudden drop in my internet speed while working, (and having a pretty good day too), then when I ran a speed test I saw my internet speeds were at 124 Mbps on the download and 1.1 Mbps for the upload... and considering i pay for 400 Mbps / 10 Mbps, that was a major problem. So I went ahead to rest my modem... and that did not work. I called Xfinity directly and they didn't see anything wrong, but scheduled an appointment for a tech to come out on Saturday afternoon.

So all fine a good right? Well I noticed that my speeds would improve to being back to normal, then dropping off again in the early evening, and I tried to star a stream for Final Fantasy XIV at 7 PM when a speed test results looked normal. But nope, everything went in the crapper straight away. I called Xfinity back, this time to try and get some answers... and after being hung up on twice, I finally got through to someone who was able to see the inconsistency with my service, and they told me I was having these issues going back to Friday.

Which makes sense because I had indications of YouTube telling me I was offline when I was online, I just chalked it up to an issues with YouTube, and had a real tough time uploading a few highlight reels to my Facebook page. So at the very least I got a $30 credit put on my account with Xfinity, and hopefully these issues can be resolved with the tech visit on Saturday.

I did hanged out on Kalenal's stream as they were playing Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/kalenal, and I ended up playing Vampire Survivors for a good portion of the evening, and managed to knock out several achievements. More on this in a bit.

Now about 10 PM things looked like they got to normal, so I started up a stream to get in some Final Fantasy XIV action for the week. My plan to do Side Quests was negated so I ended up doing Raids. We also worked in Vampire Survivors into the stream as well, with the focus on clearing Stage 4 with a level of 80 or higher, which I managed to do as Mortaccio. The build I ended up using practically made me immortal.

Vampire Survivors Achievements

• Yatta Cavallo: Defeat a total of 3000 Lion Heads.
• Soul Eater: Evolve the Garlic.
• Stone Mask: Find a Stone Mask.
• XXI - Blood Astronomia: Reach Level 99 with Poe.
• Moongolow: Unlock Hyper mode for 4 normal stages.
• O'Sole Meeo: Defeat a total of 3000 Dragon Shrimps.
• Hyper Gallo Tower: Defeat the Giant Enemy Crab in the Gallo Tower.
• II - Twilight Requiem: Reach Level 99 with Dommario after unlocking the Randomazzo.
  XIII - Wicked Season: Reach Level 99 with Christine after finding the Randomazzo.
• Reroll 1: Reach Level 100 with Mortaccio.
• Cappella Magna: Reach Level 80 in the Gallo Tower.
• Lama: Survive 20 minutes with at least +10% Curse.
  

Twitch Clips

• Show Me More!
• Lucky Me! 
• Crush This!
• Those Level Ups! 
• Roaming Around
• You Can Curse Me All You Like Because I'm Immortal! 
  

For the raid, which happened at 1 AM, we raided MajorTom928 who was also playing Vampire Survivors over at twitch.tv/majortom928.

Anyway work was solid yesterday as I said earlier, just too bad I lost the final hour because of the internet issues. On the plus side, I did get an automatic call from Xfinity saying they 'fixed' the issue, but I did not cancel the appointment for Saturday afternoon, because I know how that works.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Intermediate COmbo #2, Sway Back COmbo and Hip Shape Focus Combo for 31 minutes.

Why don't crabs donate? Because they're shellfish.

Song of the Day: Friday I’m In Love by The Cure

For tonight's stream... if possible, the plan is to finish Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight, but if that is a no go, we'll push it back to next week.

So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!