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The Wirecutter Show

Why Is Your Internet So Bad?

The Wirecutter Show

The New York Times

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4.4894 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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0:00.0

hook up an Ethernet cord to your laptop.

0:05.0

Everything will be great, and I promise you that.

0:09.0

That feels so 1990s.

0:10.0

Yeah, get in the way back machine.

0:17.0

I'm Christine Cyr Clissette.

0:19.0

I'm Kyra Blackwell. I'm Rosie Garant. And you're listening to The Wirecutter Show.

0:24.9

This episode is called Why Is Your Internet So Bad?

0:31.9

Christine and Kyra, my friends, this episode really is a public service.

0:40.7

I'm thinking of it that way.

0:43.0

We've secured an interview with the man who can answer the question I, and so many of us have.

0:48.6

Why is my internet so bad?

0:53.1

What are your setups at home? What's your drama? You know that my setup is

0:57.8

terrible. You regularly are on video calls with me where I'm glitching out and it's a problem.

1:02.6

Don't know Ariato, Christine Roboto. It's impossible to hear you sometimes. It's really,

1:07.7

it's embarrassing. Don't be embarrassed. It's not your fault, maybe.

1:12.1

Well, I'm hoping this episode I'll learn how to fix it, though. I'm proud to say that this is my

1:16.5

first episode where I don't have this problem. Oh, so you just are, you have no problem with your

1:21.3

internet. I have great internet. It's the one thing of my number of them. Yeah, but she doesn't have oven mitts or a fire extinguisher.

1:28.5

I also live in a basement.

1:30.2

But I have good internet, you guys.

1:32.2

That's great.

1:32.9

I love that.

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