About MarkJFine

Sometimes the issue is cause by a busted DNS. Powering down the modem by unplugging the power from the wall socket, waiting a minute, then plugging it back in will generally fix that. ... View more

So by @Avidwatcher's logic, the company should be liable if someone's kid or the UPS driver backs into the dish pole, putting it out of alignment.   Also by @Avidwatcher's logic, satellite technology, which has exorbitant overhead costs should be cheaper than terrestrial just because the speed is less.   Methinks @Avidwatcher has a sliver of an idea of how things should work from a layman's perspective, but doesn't completely understand how technology, message boards, business, or reality works.   I had to mention that handle three times because he/she clearly doesn't understand how distasteful spamming the same ridiculous point is. ... View more

Simple: 1. They changed providers. 2. Some accounts didn't move over very smoothly. 3. The spam facilities on the new provider doesn't work like the old one that the app was designed for, in fact one had a folder named 'Spam', whereas the other was named 'Junk'. 4. They have yet to catch up and make everything whole.   I don't carry water for anyone. I work with proven facts - not made up assumptions based on limited knowledge that suit an agenda that you may have.   But let's go back to the quite libellous theory that Hughes sold your email addresses that I've already proven to be incorrect. If that's not the case and since these things don't happen by themselves, then clearly it's something unthinkable that YOU did to yourself. QED ... View more

@Oletrapper wrote: That can mean only one thing. Hughes has sold my email addresses. Anyone else having this problem? I am not getting spam and have never gotten any spam on my hughes.net email account. I have also never used the account as a login for any service.   Therefore your assumption that they have sold the addresses (and your attitude they have done the unthinkable) is 100% bunk. ... View more

Lol... Chicken, meet egg. I think they're honestly trying to cut back on malware-generated spam from the source in order to keep off the blacklists.   How are you including the spam? As an attached email (.eml) or text file? Are you just copy/pasting the headers into your email? The reason why I ask is there may be a sensible way to get around the detection by compressing it before attaching it - though that might also preclude some abuse departments from accepting it.   To be honest, I stopped reporting spam since some cloaked spamhauses (and malware-infected hosting sites) started collecting the emails to send more spam. What I do is report the IP it was last sent from (which is pretty hard to spoof) to something like AbuseIPDB and/or a blacklist like spamhaus.org. ... View more

Unless you're being asked to range the modem by a service tech via the phone, you shouldn't be doing it. There are specific parameters that need to be used for the particular satellite you're trying to access. Don't be surprised if you will need to pay for a service visit if you mess it up. ... View more

Someone I worked with had a Hesmon cartridge. I was able to duplicate it on an EEPROM and mount it to a card that I slipped into the back. I still have the 6502 and 6510 books for learning machine code and how to interface with the C64 interrupt schemes.   First thing I wrote was something to interface to an AFSK decoder I built specifically for one of the SCA subchannels on a local FM station. The service was something called PocketQuote, a stock ticker broadcast service. The service itself used a hand-held SCA receiver built into what looked like a TI-58 calculator with an optical card reader for the user's access code. The program I wrote emulated that thing, plus was able to track up to 20 stocks, plus detect any access codes that were plainly unencrypted within the data stream. That's a whole story in itself.   Fun times. ... View more