About maratsade

I think the period on my meter is where it's supposed to be....     ... View more

Sometimes they have hilarious URLs that are very revealing. ... View more

A bit more juice and you may be the one they send to repair the satellite...   @BirdDog wrote: That's me during a celery juice purge.   ... View more

Too late now....   @MarkJFine wrote: Beano   ... View more

Did you mouseover the link to see where it went? ... View more

That cat  needs some Gas-X. ... View more

I used to think the same thing, @GabeU, until I had a spinach smoothie.   I make the smoothie with orange juice, water, banana, and spinach.  You can't taste the spinach at all but you get good nutrients from  it. As a bonus, you can gross people out who think it tastes disgusting. ... View more

" thank you for the smoothies.. extra Valium right?"   @bare65, for you, 2 scoops! ... View more

At least in the daytime, speeds continue to be very decent here.   Zoom zoom! Valium smoothies for @bare65, in 3 flavours:             ... View more

May I suggest a Valium smoothie, @bare65?  You're looking a bit peaky, a tad rough around the edges.   ... View more

@bare65, Well, that stinks.  I haven't been around to test speeds in the evening, so I'm not sure if they hold up, but I will pretend they do until Testmy disproves me.   I think you may be awake because you're hoping to catch high speeds sneaking into your system. They're around, you know.  ETA: why ARE you awake? Go to bed!   ETA: In the wheee!  hours I get slightly slower speeds these days. Go figure.   Here's hoping everyone's systems will improve. ... View more

I've been getting better speeds too.         ... View more

@bare65, ditto.  I don't care for the Speedtest app very much.  I was getting uploads of 12 Mbps -- yeah, right. ... View more

Speedtest online gives me an error every time.  I downloaded the desktop app but I'm not sure yet if I can trust it.  I tried Networx's speed test, but it only worked for one day -- now it just spins and then stops.      @MarkJFine wrote: Also been having issues with Speedtest not running under high latency. Considering getting the desktop app instead of using the website to see if that makes any difference.   ... View more

TJ ,when you're in FAP, what's your speed?  @macsociety ... View more

I'm thrilled about those 3 gigs.  I think I'm going to print the announcement and send it to my phone provider as an example of good customer service.    The up trend is cool!  LOL ... View more

If he's the Canadian radio guy, he turned 80 in July of 2017.   I don't know if he's still broadcasting, though.  I've seen pics of him and he looks excellent and not 80 at all. ... View more

I have never, since the install,  got consistent 25 up/3 down, and in general, I was in the neighborhood of 17/18 down, but recently, the speeds have dipped noticeably -- I wonder what happened. I can't believe beams are oversold, though I suppose they may be.  It's quite a puzzling thing. ... View more

Is this the bloke who turned 80 recently?  Is he still broadcasting?   @MarkJFine wrote: If you hear Ian McFarland on CBC Radio let me know.   ... View more

LOL, @macsociety!    So aside from increasing cell phone reception and  preventing alien control of your brain, do these also   Increase Testmy speed results? Pick up Canadian TV and radio stations?         ... View more

Would you like to find out?  Post in the Tech Support section.   @Nv wrote: We hardly use any internet due to its slower speeds than what our cell phones get. And still somehow we run out of data!? Amazing how does that work?   ... View more

Hark! Hughesnet is down!       ... View more

I've had to get larger and larger storage over the years.  I'm at the max with the phone now, hoping it'll be sufficient for a while.   @C0RR0SIVE wrote: Gabe, make sure it's not super cheap with less than 8GB of storage... Even at 8GB of storage, once the default apps update, you wont have much room for others.   ... View more

"even if you hand that person $1000... they may still be mad."    I think the company should test this protocol and see what happens.  I volunteer for the beta test. 😉   " If I leave the phone 2nd story in the window, I slowly get emails "   That's both funny and sad.   I remember a long time ago I had to drive 1.5 miles up the road to get reception.  The one phone and data provider in the area had a service map, and my place was in a blank area on that map.  Over the years reception improved and now it's manageable, though I still have to drive 1.5 miles up the road to get more bars.   They claim I get 4G and hang on to that claim like a drowning man to a piece of drifwood. But nope, no 4G.   I'm picturing you hanging to the weather vane, TJ, slowly rotating your arm trying to get to the site to see what's going on....   I hope they build more towers in your area.       @macsociety wrote: @maratsade wrote: I accessed the site with my phone -- they had announced the issue in plenty of places, but it seems that they can't win and someone, somewhere will be ticked off. Yeh, will be that case always... even if you hand that person $1000... they may still be mad. <grin>   But yeh, I would be in the mass email if possible for major outages.   Where I live, my cell service is VERY spotty.  If I leave the phone 2nd story in the window, I slowly get emails and if they sent one.... it would allow me to know there is a problem.  So my phone was in the window upstairs from 5PM PST until I went to bed around 12:30AM PST and still had not service here.  I am on the J2GIL so was out from around 5PM and on if memory serves.  Reset the modem a couple times during that until I said major problem, just go to bed. hehe.   I don't have enough cell access to do any browsing so could not visit community.  Service comes and goes for me around 1 bar to non to 3 to no service.  😉   TJ   ... View more

"Heck, my present phone doesn't even run in 3G.  It's 2.5G.  Yes...2.5G."   So "run" may not be quite accurate.... "walk," or "limp" may be more appropriate.  😉 ... View more

Yeah, nowadays it does pay to have a smartphone, @GabeU.  🙂   @GabeU wrote: @maratsade wrote: I accessed the site with my phone -- they had announced the issue in plenty of places, but it seems that they can't win and someone, somewhere will be ticked off. That's what I did, though my tracfone is so awful about the only thing I could do, other than read posts, is click on the kudo button.  LOL.     Because of this, I'm upgrading to an Android based, smartphone like tracfone this month.  I've had enough of my tiny screen and limited access.  Heck, my present phone doesn't even run in 3G.  It's 2.5G.  Yes...2.5G.  Ugh!  LOL.         ... View more