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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on May 6, 2019 16:35:32 GMT -5
Had the Internet go out last night about 8:30 PM.
I decided to listen to SiriusXM At Home's FOX News Headlines 24/7 using the wireless mobile broadband in my ThinkPad. Also told Comcast to send me a text when the Internet was back up.
It came up in the nine o'clock hour, and I joined the FOX 26 local news in progress. Got there just in time for the weather guess. We're going to have a rainy stretch starting tomorrow and stretching through the weekend.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2019 6:31:06 GMT -5
Sneakers, it seems all of Us in the South are beginning to get into the rainy patterns previous to the oncoming Rainy Season.
AT&T U Verse has been really good in the last year, with almost no drops of coverage (Internet I mean)
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on May 9, 2019 18:37:30 GMT -5
Yesterday's snail mail brought not one but two offers for pay TV. The first one was DISH; that went rapidly through the shredder because I prefer having the TV work during a thunderstorm. I was surprised that the second one was Comcast Xfinity; they wanted me to sign up for what I consider to be a technically inferior service to the Xfinity Stream that I already have. Probably comes from having the marketing department in charge instead of the engineering department.
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Post by markjames on May 15, 2019 9:31:54 GMT -5
We've been experiencing numerous short term broadband outages in several regions as they're pulling cable for higher speed rural broadband, replacing power poles, installing new power poles, lines etc.
When 2 of my television/internet/phone contracts expired 2 weeks ago they raised my bill from $89 Plus to $160 Plus per month.
I canceled both and subscribed to 30 Mbps broadband only @ $35 per month with no contract.
I don't want a contract since I plan on subscribing to 100/100 Mbps broadband for $40 to $50 per month as soon as it's available.
Five onsite techs and several online techs couldn't fiqure out how to get bridge mode, transparent bridge mode, nor passthrough working properly on 3 different ISP provided routers/access points, so we couldn't access other computers, servers and security cameras remotely.
WiFi performance of the ISP provided gear was extremely poor, even when I connected the AP with high power Alfa WifI adapters.
Like many tech support people they blamed my computers, devices and networking gear for their lack of skills/knowledge, plus stated what I wanted to do wasn't supported, or possible.
Technology has scaled much faster than the tech support people necessary to setup, troubleshoot and support it.
When I want something done right, or done at all I often have to do it myself, so I hopped in my vehicle and made a 50 mile trip to see what the problem was.
Took me about 30 minutes of troubleshooting, trial and error to sort things out.
Now that the AP is in bridge mode everything is working well on my high power Asus router including remote networking, VPN, WiFi etc.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on May 15, 2019 9:50:57 GMT -5
Xfinity broadband is out. No Wi-Fi and no TV. Unscheduled failure somewhere in the cable physical plant. Stretches over about three miles. I bought integrated wireless broadband on my ThinkPad, so I can get to the Internet. Not fast enough for SiriusXM At Home to work, so I'm down to iTunes for music. Took me from 2009 to 2016 to finish ripping my whole pre-Harvey CD collection (took a few breaks from ripping). Would be listening to CNBC if SiriusXM At Home was up.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2019 5:54:00 GMT -5
ALL OK here at home with FREE, Local HD and 4 Fire Stick TV's
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on May 16, 2019 12:58:05 GMT -5
Xfinity broadband went out twice this morning for short periods. The first time, the cable modem status lights looked like I should have been receiving data. The second time, that was not the case. All the time through, they were working a problem in the cable physical plant. It's been stable for a couple of hours now.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2019 16:56:34 GMT -5
Of course and because I have a "Triple Bundle" for a few years with AT&T U Verse I continue to have one single TV with a minimum optical fiber signal in it, not even HD, which I NEVER look at, but that allows me to have a cheaper access to the Land Line and the TV Signal/Internet, Wether it goes out or not I do not thinx so, because we are streamers in this house and we would know when the Internet access is gone in a second..
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on May 19, 2019 19:22:05 GMT -5
It's "NATIONAL STREAMING WEEK!" Or, at least that's what my ROKU box says!
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2019 11:15:53 GMT -5
Cool, the Calendar I have for Daily Occurrences has not a thing on the Subject
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on May 20, 2019 13:30:25 GMT -5
Cool, the Calendar I have for Daily Occurrences has not a thing on the Subject Well "National Streaming Week" (at least in 2019, it might change in the future but I don't think it'll be a Federal holiday for a long time if at all) was an industry promotion. ROKU and all their content providers, which includes a number of Big Media companies.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on May 20, 2019 14:59:08 GMT -5
Of course and because I have a "Triple Bundle" for a few years with AT&T U Verse I continue to have one single TV with a minimum optical fiber signal in it, not even HD, which I NEVER look at, but that allows me to have a cheaper access to the Land Line and the TV Signal/Internet, Wether it goes out or not I do not thinx so, because we are streamers in this house and we would know when the Internet access is gone in a second.. I've got a Comcast dual play: Internet and what they call "Instant TV" (a hybrid between traditional cable and streaming). I liked Instant TV because it comes in on the cable data path. The data transfer it uses doesn't count against their Internet 1024 GB monthly cap; they also offer service without a cap for an additional $50 a month if you're a heavy user of bandwidth. Not sure how much we'd use if everything was traditionally streamed but IIRC the highest month we had for Internet use was the part of a month we used DirecTV NOW.
I did have AT&T Internet and DirecTV. But the AT&T Internet I could get here was hardly broadband (18 mbps) and it cost as much as Comcast's nominal 250 mbps service. And what was the best feature of DirecTV was every time you had a storm outside, your signal would go away. I had to start over from scratch after Harvey. Although they didn't charge me for not returning their boxes (most of them were four feet underwater for three days).
I'd say I got ruined for AT&T Internet because of Harvey. I spent a while at a friend's house, went back in the house because I needed to be over here, and we all went into a FEMA evacuation hotel while the major reconstruction work went on (early December 2017 to mid-January 2018). Went out, ran a scan, and figured out both the house and the hotel got their Internet from Comcast. The hotel was particularly interesting because I could see what was on. I was there pretty much 24x7 for the duration, but at night there would be a lot more users connected. Although you couldn't find out a lot of details, though, but you could see who had Wintel machines and who had Macs.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on May 20, 2019 15:11:13 GMT -5
Cool, the Calendar I have for Daily Occurrences has not a thing on the Subject I thought it was ironic that the calendar the blood bank puts out in Houston doesn't list World Blood Donor Day as an event.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on May 20, 2019 15:28:48 GMT -5
Cool, the Calendar I have for Daily Occurrences has not a thing on the Subject Noticed your avatar, like it! Houston is a major refining hub. They had a refinery fire a while back (before I retired). I had a co-worker refer to "BP" as "Burnt Plant." But if you looked out of the window in their direction, "Burning Plant" would have been more appropriate! Lots of black smoke! Though they sold the refinery to Marathon, after which they had only one fire large enough to make the evening news.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2019 15:38:05 GMT -5
Yep, my Bad Petroleum nick was meant to be a PUN on BP always, from Day One...Boy they really messed up the Gulf, from then on I never ever used them again, good thing you really dont see them any more down South.
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