As a photography assistant, I have:

Driven the car.

Unloaded and set up gear.

Driven to Home Depot to buy decor.

Inventory/charge/empty/dump batteries and memory cards before and after shoots to make sure we never have a chance of running out of anything or losing data.

Book travel plans and rental gear.

Answered questions from clients, collected payments/deposits, fended off botherers

Ordered the food.

Dumped and organized the files.

Ensured backups are running.

Waved meat and cheese in front of subjects.

Etc.

With a crappy cable line coming in, I’d have Cocks come out and run a new line from the pole, and it might as well be to a better location on your house this time.

In my area at least, Comcast marketing is part of the problem. For years they blasted ads with “the fastest in-home wifi” and it took me many years to realize they weren’t bragging about some fancy APs they were offering. Like I always just rolled my eyes and said who the fuck uses the router they give you anyway. But now it makes a little more sense.