Thanks. That makes the most sense so far. I've made those changes. We'll see how it goes.
As another data point that supports this: Spectrum
G*d D@mned Spectrum has been a PIMA for the past 2 years or more. Most recently has been the past 2 weeks of outages and throttling while their last mile of infrastructure has been in constant (though intermittent) failure. While I was fighting with the iOS bug my internet service through Spectrum has been bouncing around from totally down, to 0.1 Mb/s up, to what I pay for 60Mb/s (and sometimes more but never for longer than an hour or two). Of the nearly 50 tech visits to my home they have never found it to be on my side of the demarc yet they insist that it's on my end and want me to disrupt my days waiting for them to prove to themselves that it's them (it's always them). My first 2 years with Charter were a honeymoon of great customer service and service quality... then Spectrum started sniffing around like Charter was in heat. One month I had more than 100 hours of total outage (and got comped all of $10 on my bill).
It could be worse though... which is why I left AT&T to move to Charter in the first place. Ugh... AT&T... ammiright? The options for anything near the speed that Spectrum offers are non-existent here but I think I'll start shopping for microwave (line-of-sight) services. Storms might impact connectivity but that whole "last mile" (with neighborhood mux boxes and their seasonal change-averse cards that always fail as we move into the worst of the winter and the 100º days of summer) would be a thing of the past.