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12-31-2021
05:30 PM
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If I don't get a chance, wishing everyone a happy and healthy new year. I have an appropriate GIF for 2021 that I've posted on Twitter. Unfortunately it's not appropriate for this site: There's an infamous scene in the British (and correct) version of Fever Pitch, where Colin Firth leans out his window and yells something, because Ruth Gemmell has just rung his doorbell during critical minutes of the league final at Anfield in '89... That's the GIF. If you know, you know. Lol.
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12-30-2021
06:59 AM
Nice catch. People falling for those kinds of phishing schemes is likely the #1 reason why the email system has so many flagged spam problems... after their email accounts have been hacked. Well, if you can call it a hack after they've handed them the access information.
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12-19-2021
01:15 PM
1 Kudo
@Danny89 wrote: As an educational moment, im curious, why are internet speeds now more measured by bits per second as opposed to bytes? It certainly makes things look more impressive, but as someone who was in the dial up days, everything ive ever downloaded shows me data in bytes, and of course all storage is still measured in bytes. Feels like some Metric vs Imperial stuff 😛 My take: No one can agree what a byte is, but a bit is undeniable. Seriously. First, there's the issue of how many bits make a byte: Is it the actual data word? Does it include parity and control bits? Does it include repetitive protocols required for forward error correction? It's not pretty, and hella confusing. Second, there's the issue of the actual measurement, since no one can agree if 1k = 1,000 or 1,024, but that's a whole 'nother kettle o' wax.
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12-18-2021
04:39 PM
1 Kudo
It probably popped you onto a different route. I always reboot the modem to try and get a different route if things get squirrelly. Plus, if the DNS cache gets corrupted, rebooting clears it out. Not a bad strategy to do this once in a while.
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12-16-2021
11:14 AM
1 Kudo
Think of the last four digits as something akin to the router bank and port that you're connecting through at the ground station. That's how I look at it.
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12-15-2021
07:38 AM
2 Kudos
Look, capacity is never not going to be a problem on satellite by the very nature of the beast - you have severely limited bandwidth to start with. Demand for external servers will always be a problem, complicating the issue too. Give you an example: Over the past day or so, Apple, Microsoft (Windows and Office), and Fedora all had major os/kernel updates. Ever try to update something from Apple or Microsoft on the first day of the release? You can't ever get it done, because you're competing with the entire globe on top of trying to compete with those also on your satellite beam, groundstation, the groundstation's provider, and so on. This is how internet works... everywhere.
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12-14-2021
10:00 AM
3 Kudos
8 Mbps is not 25 Mbps, but it's definitely not a throttled speed. 25 mbps is not guaranteed and depends greatly upon a lot of factors, too numerous to list here.
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12-12-2021
02:22 PM
The page I directed the OP to was to the modem's built-in interface, which was being reported as 'unreachable'. That means the OP doesn't even have a proper connection to the modem. A certificate error something completely different from the OP's issue and can mean several things. Addressing it here would over-complicate the issue that the OP is having.
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12-12-2021
06:52 AM
You could try disabling Web Acceleration: 1. Using a computer connected to the modem via ethernet or wifi, open this page. 2. Under Advanced Menu on the left, click on Web Acceleration, then Control. 3. On the right, click the green Web Acceleration Enabled button. 4. It will then turn yellow and change to Web Acceleration Disabled. 5. You can optionally click the Reset MBX button and retry enabling Web Acceleration, but I'm not sure what that adds. If that doesn't work, you could try rebooting your modem to make sure its' internal DNS cache wasn't corrupt to begin with. You reboot it by unplugging the power cable from the wall socket, waiting 60 seconds, then plugging it back in.
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12-03-2021
08:23 PM
The email is probably not 'down' since I've not seen this happen in quite a while. More than likely the issue revolves around SSL errors from network congestion and timeouts causing your email clients to only think your login authentication is failing, then asking for you to re-enter your password. When that happens to me I usually hit cancel and wait an hour or so instead of constantly re-entering it, thinking something new and different will happen. Another option, as was once mentioned to you, is to not rely on this email system and move it to gmail or an equivalent.
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12-01-2021
09:09 AM
1 Kudo
Dialup is 56kbps. You're doing more than 10x that. Hyperbole much?
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11-30-2021
06:26 AM
2 Kudos
It's not a signal problem nor a connection problem. It's a latency problem. Some streaming servers are sensitive to the 500mS+ ping times (much higher during periods of network congestion) making that kind of activity difficult to use. Unfortunately there is nothing that can be done because that lag time is typical for geostationary satellite communication due to distance from the earth and the rate at which radio signals travel.
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11-17-2021
06:16 AM
@maratsade wrote: Your computer could have a virus. And that virus very well could be Chrome (or Edge, or any of the other browsers based on Chrome). Chrome (as of v96.x) just turned their accross-the-network synching to on and (like all synching) it's using a lot of data. You may want to go into your browser's options and turn it off, even though you may have never turned it on in the first place. You may have to hunt in Chrome's settings in order to find it. I have the Mac version and it may be a little different.
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11-08-2021
07:40 AM
1 Kudo
Since these ports are always probing/polling for new devices, there's always activity. So it will always blink.
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11-07-2021
12:46 PM
1 Kudo
There was a bug in the early 2000W models regarding a problem with th 5GHz wifi constantly resetting. It's possible your modem hasn't been properly updated with newer firmware. Usually unplugging it from the AC power, waiting a minute or two, then plugging it back can force a firmware update to start. However, there's a simpler, less elegant way around it: Use the 2.4GHz wifi instead. The 2.4GHz wifi is a lot stabler and goes a further distance than the 5GHz, although the tradeoff is slightly slower speed. It only has older 802.11b, g, and n protocols. The 5GHz wifi has faster 802.11a, n, and ac protocols which spread over twice the radio bandwidth.
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11-04-2021
11:21 AM
Hmm. My data seems correct on my Usage Meter, the iPhone app, as well as the web site. That said, I've been noticing a tremendous (nearly painful) amount of SSL errors since late last week so I'm wondering if that's affecting authentication errors in many instances and it's causing data retrieval errors and possibly data corruption as a result.
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10-21-2021
02:38 PM
1 Kudo
You could try doing that. A few of things I'd recommend for something that long are: 1. Use good quality, shielded CAT-6 or better. You don't want any data loss or electrical interference because of a run this long. 2. Dig a deep trench to lay the cable within some hard plastic tubing. You don't know what bugs, water and lawn mowers can do to these things. 3. Make sure the extra wireless router is set up with secure connections so no one can hack in.
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10-10-2021
05:07 AM
1 Kudo
@GabeU wrote: Replacing it with another MBP? If so, are you waiting for the new ones later this month? Likely with another MBP. Whether it's a new one or not depends on how flaky this one gets and timing.
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10-09-2021
07:26 PM
I may have to replace my early 2013 15" Retina MBP. The keyboard membrane is finally going. This started about 6 months ago where the power button was sketchy trying to turn it on. Now it doesn't work at all and I never shut it off until I go to bed. I have it automatically wake at 3am in case I get up early. If I bring it anywhere I just close the lid. If I accidentally turn it off I have to physically open the bottom (9 tiny screws), disconnect the battery with a spudger, then reconnect it after a minute, replace the cover and plug the magsafe power cable back on. That's the procedure to boot a MacBook without a power button. That was somewhat livable, but now the E, C, I and down-arrow buttons have started missing connections too. So, it's time. The battery I replaced in it a while ago is still good tho. That was a fun job. The old one was swollen so bad it would press against the bottom of the trackpad so it wouldn't click anymore.
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10-09-2021
03:33 PM
1 Kudo
So apparently there's a Registry hack: You create the key AllowUpgradesWithUnsupportedTPMOrCPU under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\MoSetup\ and set it to a REG_DWORD of 1. This tells the installer to ignore the TPM or the CPU.
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10-09-2021
08:09 AM
1 Kudo
On other factor for me: I'm running a Mac and Win10 is running in a virtual machine, so I have no idea if they will even know to check that processor for compatibility because it's not a PC.
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10-09-2021
07:24 AM
1 Kudo
If you have a .iso of the Win11 install, and have your original Win10 product key you can install it no problem. The problem is that Windows Update won't update anything after you do that, because it senses it's an unsupported machine.
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10-08-2021
05:21 PM
1 Kudo
I went through the trouble of converting my Win10 VM from BIOS to UFI, added the TP chip and secure boot, just so I could fail the PC Health Test on having an 'unacceptible' Intel Core i7-3740QM processor, despite it having all the requisite technical characteristics and capabilities. The only flaw: It's from early 2013 and deemed 'too old' to be passable. 🤬 Currently fighting it out with Microsoft.
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10-08-2021
03:33 PM
1 Kudo
@maratsadehas it right, but more specifically, it's whatever the mail server's IP in the final Received: header that gets flagged. It's not the whole network/ISP, just any email that comes from that particular shared mail server.
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10-08-2021
01:01 PM
3 Kudos
What is happening is that people run sketchy apps and games with malware on their phones and computers that hijack their email account and secretly send spam. The spam gets reported to blacklists who add the IP of the mail server to their list using known lists of faked email addresses as the From: and ReplyTo: headers, but with HughesNet's HELO IP address. ISPs then subscribe to those lists and actively block anything on the list as suspected spammers. It's a global problem and a constant battle; and not just with HughesNet.
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10-08-2021
07:29 AM
2 Kudos
Just so you understand how satellite internet works: 1. Netflix, as with all streaming services, is a very data-intensive activity - lots and lots of pings and data to a streaming server. Satellite internet is a very laggy internet: It takes over 500mS for each byte to go from your house to the terrestrial internet on the West Coast, then to the intended destination on the internet, and back. When you put both together you have pure chaos. If you're trying to stream anything on your TV, everythng else in your home will now be competing for available bandwidth. In reality, everyone on the satellite BEAM you'e also on will be competing for bandwidth, because you're loading down satellite resources for everyone. 2. When you buy tokens or increase your plan you're not buyng more speed, you're adding more data to your plan. Unless of course you already exceeded your data plan and were being throttled, then you'd get a speed increase until you exceeded the new data threshold.
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10-07-2021
06:39 AM
@Tonyclarke wrote: My service is so sad and slow I can't even open the modems page. It said check internet connection. The modem's page is a direct connection on your LAN and is completely independent of dish communications. This suggests that your problem has nothing to do with anything past the modem. Suggest you see what in your home (or on your computer for that matter) is hogging all of the LAN bandwidth to cause slowness. But since this has nil to do with original poster's issue, the point is moot. You should keep your whiging to your own post.
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