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Re: T-Mobile outage or service down? Current problems and outages

gildavis — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 23:32:52 -0000

I was on T-Mobile internet in Decatur, Indiana about a year ago. It started off great with speeds in the 100+ Mbps range on 5G. Something happened about a month after I started using their service. Suddenly it dropped to 15 Mbps or slower during the evening. I rely on a dependable connection, and this wasn't that. I run a communications device that requires not a fast speed, but one that is providing data steadily. Sort of like a voice over IP service. And it was SOOOO bad. I finally went back to the local cable company. T-Mobile tried replacing the modem, changing all kinds of settings, promising that they'd find out what happened to the nearby cell site (only about 1/4 mile away), and all kinds of other things that kept me on the phone with them for HOURS! They kept giving me credit back for the poor service, but at one point, you can't pay me enough to keep doing this.

Now, my brother decided to give it a go. His 5G T-Mobile phone doesn't work all that well here, but it's not the worst. Maybe they fixed it. So, in October, 2021, he got the service. Same problem. He can't watch a video without buffering, it takes forever for some things to work. Even Alexa buffers or stutters. His 5G phone will hit better than 500 Mbps in Fort Wayne, but go just 20 miles southeast, and service goes down the toilet. He's about to change back over to one of the other area providers. It's pretty obvious that T-Mobile has little interest in finding out what has gone wrong, or they just don't have the technical knowledge to fix it. So it goes.

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gildavis — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 20:40:12 -0000

This is a test

Re: Best cell phone plans and deals right now

gildavis — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 20:08:53 -0000

I've had Hello Mobile for over a year now and with taxes, fees, and 15Gb LTE data included, $25 per month. It was a little rough getting started because I was on the lifeline plan with Qlink. I actually had to create a new Gmail address because my regular one was identified as a Qlink account. In my area, I have a Sprint sim card that works fine in my Motorola G6 and coverage in my area is quite good. I don't understand why they're not included in many reviews. My thoughts...

Re: US mediacom-communications

gildavis — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 18:27:54 -0000

Internet has been down since 1:30pm in Decatur, Indiana near Fort Wayne (Northeast Indiana).

Re: Mediacom outage or service down? Current problems and outages

gildavis — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 18:23:49 -0000

Decatur, Indiana... Internet has been down since 1:30 this afternoon and it's 6:23pm.

Re: Free on The Roku Channel: Mission: Impossible III, The Peacemaker and more! (10/13/2017)

gildavis — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:04:04 -0000

I remember a bit over a year ago that one of those channels played 4 or 5 commercials in a row...all of them the same commercial. If I recall, it was a Microsoft ad. And the same commercial at every break about 10 or 15 minutes apart. That was annoying.

Re: State by State Cultivation Laws: AK, CO, DC & OR

gildavis — Sun, 22 Jan 2017 23:09:40 -0000

All 52 of them, huh? I don't mind it being legal, I already drink very little and have no desire to ingest or inhale anything that will give me an altered state of mind that I may have little control of. But 52 states. I think you should stay off of the stuff for a while, go back to school, and pay attention this time.

Re: Last Typewriter Factory in the World Shuts Its Doors - Nicholas Jackson - Technology - The Atlantic

gildavis — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 01:00:50 -0000

My very first new typewriter was a Brother...a manual in which the carriage raised to allow capital letters to be typed. It was purchased from Western Auto in about 1968 for high school for about $70. Banged out a bunch of book reports and other things. Yes, they did offer a "business machines" course in high school where we learned how to type, use the rotary calculator (look THAT one up!), 10 key, and yes, we even had two electronic calculators in that class...one was a display only that used a 16 digit nixie display (cold-cathode tubes that displayed numbers), but wasn't smart enough to know where to place the decimal point, and the other a printing calculator along the lines of a 10 key adding machine that had 3 memories! I remember the teacher saying that it cost the school something like $3500. And the other one was a bargain at about half of that.

Anyway, the Brother typewriter being a portable didn't last that long. I replaced it later with an old Underwood that was manufactured in the 1920s. That one lasted for YEARS and I ended up giving it away when I bought my first computer system (a Commodore 64, but that doesn't count the TI-99/4A previously that I had without a printer). I learned a lot about 'puting then. I had someone give me a wide-carriage IBM Selectric which brought back memories of high school. That was about 5 years ago. I went through it a bit, lubed it up, put a new ribbon on it...then donated it to someone taking typewriters to India. Typewriters are probably responsible for my interest in computers since I learned to type at about 50 wpm on an electric and got up to about 90 on a keyboard.

Kind of neat to reminisce about things like that, huh? Bet lots of others have even more stories to tell.

Re: Xenex Book of Shadows: Because defense against the dark arts is bollocks

gildavis — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:27:06 -0000

Unfortunately Nightscapes has been out of print for many years, enjoying about a three year run. I'm Gil Davis, co-editor of the now-defunct journal. The address and phone numbers are no longer valid...you can contact Jay at jay_barrymore@yahoo.com, if you like, however. My personal website link is www.gildavis.com.