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Once in a while I remember how to log in only to find old friends here are leaving, passing on, seems no different than what's been happening all around me here at home. I think of them now and then. R.I.P. Tommie

It' been a while since I've signed on and I'm sad to find this about ROCO. We had emailed back and forth many times. We compared gardens, with pics, his floral, mine vegetable. I lost contact somewhere back in time, I believed he may have moved and changed ISP. I think about ten years ago I was debating on visiting him, we discussed it a little. I guess I never acquired enough feathers for the flight.

Last fall

Nothing happening here, I guess everyone's in the pisser.

Just checking in to let everyone know I'm still here cold in western NY.

Been so busy past few years, grandkids seem to keep you on the run. I hadn't chatted with EWO in a while but he did send me some pictures to compare when he got about 4 inches of snow one time. Had wanted to take a ride and meet in person but kept putting it off, now I'll have to wait a little.

Biggles, you speak wise and gentlemanly. Would U be my friend?

@ Granpa I deny any knowledge of living or luving a gal at Chestnut walk Sevenoaks Kent UK , we where just platonic friends Good job you wasn’t my navigator/bomb aimer , your about 20 miles out , Maybe post codes (zip- code ? ) are more accurate , I am at KT 8 9AU (Google Earth)About ½ mile to the west of the Royal Palace , on the north bank of the river Thames , That puts me in Middx , (Middlesex ) lol we have 4 sexes in the uk, Southsex, Eastsex , and Westsex , and there I am stuck in the middle –sex Note we don’t do north-sex , well not often , LOl , Maybe the inaccuracy was on longitude I am West of the meridian line not East , I used the coordinates given by someone in your neighborhood and plugged them in. As for the four did U forget another (nosex)

No cain, it appears you are located somewhere between Sevenoaks and Tonbridge. Chestnut Walk, Sevenoaks, Kent TN15, UK

Platters; the first big hit I belive was in 1953.

It's been a while since following here, how would you like that message shot to you. No more pigeons but I thinks I have some arrows around.

My user name is exactly what it says. Now guess who is still alive and has over 300,000 miles on my ride.

:::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 1509 Kbps about 1.5 Mbps (tested with 1544 kB) Download Speed is:: 184 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main) Test Time:: 2010-04-07 01:24:13 GMT Bottom Line:: 26X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 5.57 sec Tested from a 1544 kB file and took 8.382 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 66.07 % of your hosts average (spcsdns.net) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-TBX2M0KCZ User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; MSN Optimized;US) [!] :::.. Upload Stats ..::: Upload Connection is:: 711 Kbps about 0.7 Mbps (tested with 1496 kB) Upload Speed is:: 87 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main) Test Time:: 2010-04-07 01:25:19 GMT Bottom Line:: 12X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 11.77 sec Tested from a 1496 kB file and took 17.245 seconds to complete Upload Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 88.1 % faster than the average for host (spcsdns.net) U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-4VTCUXQBN User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; MSN Optimized;US) [!]

Last time I reformatted the whole computer I had to replace everything from the case inward

This is all I get testing with my wife online. :::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 1650 Kbps about 1.7 Mbps (tested with 1544 kB) Download Speed is:: 201 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main) Test Time:: 2009/07/13 - 5:01am Bottom Line:: 29X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 5.09 sec Tested from a 1544 kB file and took 7.666 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 62.48 % of your hosts average (spcsdns.net) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-O4BJNIQ57 User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) [!] :::.. Upload Stats ..::: Upload Connection is:: 810 Kbps about 0.8 Mbps (tested with 1496 kB) Upload Speed is:: 99 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main) Test Time:: 2009/07/13 - 5:01am Bottom Line:: 14X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 10.34 sec Tested from a 1496 kB file and took 15.132 seconds to complete Upload Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 162.99 % faster than the average for host (spcsdns.net) U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-TX0L5FDVS User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) [!]

Puppies drool a lot, come to think of it they bark a lot too, 10547 times. .

booge3211 Remember videos really eat up your allotment and sat internet won't replace TV.

I have never found anything to reduce the power of the modem, I don't think you would want to though and as for lasting longer, who knows.As for the micro waves we are constantly bombarded with them anyway, all you added is the transmit. I do know I had a speed problem when I first got my setup. I called Sprint and got an engineer who told me I was directly between two towers and I may be jumping back and forth. He told me what tower had the faster throughput and I placed the modem (plugged into the Linksys with a Trucker antenna attached) in a position that blocked it somewhat from the slower tower. Worked fine and has been 18 1/2 months now. I was also told from where I got the modem-router that it only receives through the trucker and transmits from the modem ( towers have far better equipment than we have) which helped me choose a location for blocking one tower. Hope this helps.

So if these truckers are going faster that means we can go faster too

Sure is, supposed to get to -2 degrees tomorrow and is snowing right now.

That is all the things I have gone trough since I bought my first when PII's came out and I may have not listed them all. I have 4 running PC's at home and a laptop I use on the road all put together or refurbished by myself and after being self taught. Started with dial-up, then added one-way satellite, then going to 2-way satellite and now with Sprint EVDO and finding free. WiFi with the laptop. ll this to make some use of the PC. I seem to like it when problems arise though, keeps me thinking.

Here is a site that has much of the information that you need and I had to find out before it became FAQ's http://www.dslreports.com/faq/satellite

This is a network switch not a TV switch. It automatically routes computers on a network. I think your research is yet to continue.

Your right, transmitting makes it more precise and the larger the dish also. I found it best to use a switch connected to the modem if you don't want to use a wireless router (can also double as a switch). It also adds more connectivity plus they can be added in down the line extending your networking distance (footage).

I'm not sure about what you mean about using a splitter. You can only use one modem per account, meaning you cannot use a splitters to run 2 modems from one satellite dish. You must know what satellite you will be on and only Hughes assigns that no matter what a dealer may say. I'm not up on current satellites since going to Sprint over a year ago. You cannot do your on install but you can set the pipe mount after you get an account with Hughes and know the satellite your on. I did experiment with my system moving my dish locations at home, very sensitive adjustments and hard even understanding how to do it. Each move was aimed at the same satellite also. I did get better signal strength than my installer though. My last dish move (with a DW7000) was 300 miles away and I hit it right on and is still working from a year and a half ago. Good Luck.