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SkunkBuddy's avatar
SkunkBuddy
Freshman
7 years ago

Happy with Gen5?

I mean besides those 3 people who spend their whole days hanging out on these boards?

 

Gen4 was solid. It never went out. Gen5 goes out every time it rains - never once did Gen4 go out, even in the snow. It seems like Gen5 can't handle everyone being off of work and trying to use it at the same time, either. Gen5 is not a good product in its current state. It's like a beta test that we're paying for. 

 

Didn't what's happening now happen on a different holiday weekend, too?  

  • maratsade's avatar
    maratsade
    Distinguished Professor IV

    The people who spend time here are volunteers that are giving back, like people often do when they're grateful and want to give back to those who have helped them by turning around and helping others.  This may be a foreign concept to some, but it works well in communties such as this one, which is mostly peer-to-peer help. 

     

    Gen4 was more consistent for me, but I came late to it -- It may have been glitchy at first too.  

     


    I mean besides those 3 people who spend their whole days hanging out on these boards?

     


     

    • MarkJFine's avatar
      MarkJFine
      Professor

      maratsade wrote:
      Gen4 was more consistent for me, but I came late to it -- It may have been glitchy at first too.  

      It was. Trust me... it was.

      • BirdDog's avatar
        BirdDog
        Assistant Professor

        MarkJFine wrote:

        maratsade wrote:
        Gen4 was more consistent for me, but I came late to it -- It may have been glitchy at first too.  

        It was. Trust me... it was.


        Was, and still is.......at least in my case.

  • C0RR0SIVE's avatar
    C0RR0SIVE
    Associate Professor

    Gen4 had its fair share of outages as well, as has Spaceway3...

    This issue is different from past issues... When the last outage occured, signal was lost entirely.  We are seeing intermitten signal loss with this outage, so most likely, a different issue has occured.

  • GabeU's avatar
    GabeU
    Distinguished Professor IV

    SkunkBuddy wrote: 

     It seems like Gen5 can't handle everyone being off of work and trying to use it at the same time, either. 


    Nothing like making assumptions that have no basis in fact.  

     

    It reminds me of the golden oldie, "HughesNet is stealing my data!"