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10-05-2019
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02-24-2019
12:05 PM
@BirdDog wrote: Yea, I try to do these things during Bonus time. It does mean getting up at vampire time but I get up in the middle of the night for dumber things. With me, its our dog, who always seems to need to go out between 3 & 4 AM every morning. Well, if I'm already up, I might as well get on the computer. I thought about getting a doggie door, but my GF doesn't like that idea.
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02-24-2019
07:45 AM
"I think it would be a great idea to be able to log into my HughesNet account once a year or maybe once every 6 months for top tier customers and check a box that says I just bought a new device and the next 24 hours of data being transferred doesn't count against my monthly usage." Interesting concept, but I suspect that it would probably be a nightmare to implement such a system. I personally, do any updates or downloads during the bonus period. I also try to have as few devices on my system as possible. All of this allows me to remain a 10 gig wonder I haven't experienced it myself, but I've seen people here say that their service actually slows down right after Christmas, due to all the new devices being added. If you haven't done so already, you might want to look at this link: https://community.hughesnet.com/t5/Tech-Support/HughesNet-Data-Management-Tips-n-Tricks-How-To-Eliminate-Phantom/m-p/41581#M29776
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02-24-2019
05:21 AM
"Our power goes out here when a bird burps. If I don't lose power it will be a miracle." LOL The birds could be doing a lot more than just burping. A fellow electrician told me a story from when he had worked for a large utility company, who had just installed a brand new large high voltage transmission line that was having a lot of nuisance trips. These turned out to be caused by large pond birds roosting on the conductors. Occasionally the birds would touch beaks, and short out the whole line. They actually had to move the wires far enough apart to where the suicidal birds could no longer touch beaks. I experienced something similar when my plant had a new 69KV substation installed which was having nuisance trips. It didn' t take long to figure out why. The charred crow carcasses underneath a large 69KV reactor were a dead give away. The reactor had to be retrofitted with wire mesh to keep the crows out. The longest power failure I've experienced was 38 hours. I had to move the stuff from my fridge to a cooler full of ice. The stuff in my two freezers made it through it alright. Just before the power returned I was thinking about driving a hundred miles to find a motel with a working AC. I know people that were without power for six weeks after that storm. Oooooh! I just saw the picture you posted of your kerosene heater. I thought those things were outlawed years ago! I knew a couple of guys that burned their whole house down with a similar looking portable kerosene heater. One of the guys got trapped inside by their burglar bars and died. I just checked out the Buddy heaters on Amazon, which look a whole lot safer. Is it too late for you to get one with one day shipping? Well, anyway good luck! And be careful if you have to use that kerosene heater!
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02-21-2019
06:50 AM
@pswired wrote: So, I've done some more research on the HT2000W and its corresponding ODUs and found the following: Thanks for the info!
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02-20-2019
11:42 AM
............................. Also keep in mind that the cabling between the modem and the dish is not carrying RF. The radio in the system is located at the antenna feedhorn and is integrated with the LNB. Signal quality as measured by the HT2000W is determined at the dish itself. Very interesting, but I'm somewhat confused ( as I often am ). Does this mean that the coax is carrying digital data as well as the DC power for the radio, and then the radio converts it to RF? If so, wouldn't a piece of cat 5 cable work just as well? I'm asking this because some years ago I had Mainstreet broadband, which used a small square antenna which was hooked to a modem with cat5. I almost cried when they went out of business, $28 a month with no added taxes or fees, blazing fast, and with unlimited data.
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02-19-2019
10:10 AM
@maratsade wrote: You have discovered my secret identity as Skynet. This may not bode well for you. Signed: I, Skynet. ROTFL! I guess I better get my 1000 ton hydraulic press and my vat of molten steel out of the barn. :>)>
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02-19-2019
10:01 AM
@vladams2015 wrote: Only following for S&G Please refrain from the use of profanity on this forum. :>)> however what is the kudos penalty for leading the witness? None! IMO there should be a 30 kudo penalty for all personal fouls like "Unnecessary Roughness".
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02-19-2019
09:37 AM
@GabeUquoted : LOL "I, HughesNet"? Sort of like "I, Robot"? :>)> In all the hubub I missed your reply. But, yeah, HughesNet became sentient. Didn't you get the memo? 😛 😛 I'm not surprised. The URL of their login contain the words "skylogin", which makes me think of "skynet". :>)>
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02-19-2019
07:27 AM
@GabeU wrote: To help prevent any confusion, misinformation, incorrectly given speed troubleshooting steps and future disagreements, could you please verify and give official word that the required speed testing troubleshooting results for those seeking help via this support Community need to be from testmy.net and not from HughesNet's own speed test? Tweeeeeet! Flag for moderator interference. You should have just asked your question, without stating your own preverence. Fifteen kudo penalty, replay down. The five kudo penalty for not asking Damien is declined. :>)>
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02-18-2019
10:45 AM
Back in the dial up a BBS with a 1200 baud modem days, I hung out on a couple of boards: The international 'C' Programing Echo ( Those guys taught me a lot! ), and another that I can't recall anything about, except that the handle of one of the posters was Cthulu, and that many posters often ended their posts with some sort of quote. Neither BBS would put up with the flames or disrespect to another poster, that I sometimes I see here. A first offense would get you a nasty note from the moderator. Three times and you were barred from posting. People that were barred sometimes tried to sneak back in under a different handle. This never worked, flamers got to flame. The moderator was elected every year and they almost never ran for two consecutive terms. I called this "moderator burn out". After all, who would want to ride herd over a bunch of unruly techies, 24/7, for more than one year? This weekend seemed especially unruly to me. IMO everybody should just lighten up! Especially you members of the Kudo Klub Klique. :>)> IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership. The Devils Dictionary
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02-18-2019
10:24 AM
To: vladams2015 Interesting. I worked in a phosphate plant in central Florida ( Which has more lightning than any place in the US ) that was built mostly on reclaimed land from a salt water bay. The plant had been in operation since 1915, and the combination the salt water, and years of acid spills, turned the whole place into a giant battery. I used to joke that if you bolted a 4/0 welding cable to a beam at GTSP and then ran it to #4 CAP ( about 3/4 mile away ), you could probably weld with the ground loop current. BTW the place was well grounded. I was amazed to see the number of ground rods that were put in when they built a new plant. When we put in our first Distributed Control System, it was connected with coax as double token ring. We called it the broken ring. All of the coax had to be quickly replaced with fiber optics, which added another layer of hardware that could fail, since a FO to coax converter had to be added to each DCS site. It was still a broken ring, it just wasn't broken as bad. We all breathed a sigh of relief when the DCS company finally supported ethernet. Boy, writing this has brought back a lot of old memories, although I worked there for 31 years it's all been 16 years ago. "If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called “behaviorist psychology.” So they are wrong from scratch--as clever and as wrong as phlogiston chemists." Lazarus Long
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02-16-2019
06:50 AM
@GabeU wrote: I have no idea, but what I, HughesNet, and the installers care about is a proper installation, which requires the proper application of dielectric grease and weathersealing of all outdoor connectors. LOL "I, HughesNet"? Sort of like "I, Robot"? :>)> Seriously, it's been over 30 years ago, but I don't remember doing any of that stuff. We didn't have any problems with connectors either. Most of our problems were caused by lightning and ground loop currents.
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02-16-2019
05:35 AM
@vladams2015 wrote: Just a tidbit of information, while typical coax connectors are not IP rated, the application of an additional dielectric will change impedence and negatively impact throughput, as the cable, connectors, transceiver, and receiver are all designed to be impedence-matched........... In this case the coax was actually cut in two, so the connector wasn't a factor. It's been over 30 years siince I worked with coax ( I didn't enjoy the experience ). I don't remember using any sort of grease on the connectors. We eventually replaced all the coax in the plant with fiber optics. Which is about the only thing that will work in a central Florida phosphate plant We all celebrated when the last piece of coax was gone.
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02-15-2019
01:53 PM
@BirdDog wrote: Yes, there is DC power supplied by the modem going through the coax to power the radio on the dish. Under certain situations the modem can be damaged if the power is shorted out. There are protections built in but they don't always work. Given the behavior of my tech guy I would guess that they seldom work, because he was absolutely sure that I was going to need a new modem. There's obviously a lot more happening on that one piece of coax than I ever thought there would be. BTW I hate coax. The first computer network I worked with, was coax run overhead on already existing poles. It was an absolute nightmare to keep working. After we had done about everything that we could think of to try to fix it. I told my supervisor the only thing we could to do now was to change all the poles. :>)>
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02-15-2019
12:02 PM
Some years ago, an EMT vehicle backed over and destroyed my Hughes dish. The next morning I called my trusty tech company, and the first thing he asked me was if the coax was damaged, and next if had I cut the power to the modem. I didn't discover that the coax was broken until the next morning, and I hadn't powered down the modem for all of that time. He said that with all the rain we had that night, that the modem was probably fried, so he would make sure that the tech he sent brought a new modem with him, and for me to unplug the modem at once, even though it was probably too late by now. He was right, the modem was fried. I knew that coax was designed to carry extremely weak signals, and I didn't think there was enough power available to cause any damage. Looking back now, I think it was probably the transmit signal to the dish that probably had enough power to do the damage, and the water on the broken end of the coax caused a short on the transmit circuit of the modem. At least, that's my theory. I suspect that this may be true for the newer generation modems also. I'm going to play it safe from now on, and if anything ever happens to my dish again, I'm going to immediately cut the power to the modem. PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support. The Devil's Dictionary
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02-14-2019
02:59 PM
@MarkJFine wrote: One meal at the Ft. Gordon Waffle House would be enough for me to drop out of MP school. LOL. We used to call Augusta Discusta. No bars, one movie theater that was closed, and one house of ill repute that was off limits. I attended a DCS school in Augusta later. Boy, had that place changed, fine restaurants, bars, theaters, and beautiful Georgia peaches everywhere.
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02-14-2019
02:04 PM
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@MarkJFine wrote: Although my background is both Tactical and Strategic Army, but a bit was Army/National. I made it to several AFBs in my career. I applied for an "early out' by going to a computer programming school. They said the were full, but if I made an 'A+' on the test I could attend anyway Well, I didn't, and finished out my 2 year enlistment. I found it funny that later I became a computer programmer. When I got out in 1969, I started getting letters from everywhere asking me to join their law enforcement agency, starting at a high rank, and waiving my attendance of any the required law enforcement schools or academies. My brief experience as a MP convinced me, that I would never take a job in law enforcement ever.
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02-14-2019
01:32 PM
Just to let everbody know. I will not read nor respond to private messages unless it's from a moderator.
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02-14-2019
12:50 PM
@MarkJFine wrote: Funny you say that, because I was thinking about Kelly AFB (now Annex due to BRAC) in San Antonio when I wrote that. Great minds think together. :>)> I was a Army MP at the time and several of my friends went to dog handler school at Lackland AFB in San Antonio. Some of those guys were in tears when we all got transferred to a regular MP company, and they all had to give up their dogs I believe the army has since changed that policy and you can keep your dog now. Ah, those were the good ole days! That's one of the problems with getting old, you have so many good ole days behind you, and maybe not so many ahead. :>)> Just think, we started out in San Diego, went through El Paso on our way to San Antonio. At this rate, I'll be back in Florida in nothing flat. :>)>
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02-14-2019
11:30 AM
@MarkJFine wrote: They're currently under flood warnings, which means it's pretty bad. It's dry, but unlike like Southern Texas where a little squall causes mass drownings. I've often wondered if Hughes chooses their gateway locations for their clear weather? If so, is there one in El Paso, Texas? I was stationed there between 1967 and 1969. It almost never rains. but when it does the whole place floods. Very interesting to drive a deuce and a half ( army slang for a two and half ton truck) down one of those flooded desert roads, where there's no fence posts, telephone poles, or anything else to show you where the pavement might be. You sort of slowly feel your way along.
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02-12-2019
12:10 PM
@BirdDog wrote: All the tests stood out is all when looking at member results. Don't know how many here actually look at that stuff. I like taking a peek every so often. I haven't, because I never have trouble with speed ( knock on wood ). You've got me interested though, because this seems to be a such a popular complaint here. Taking a quick look at the messages with the word "slow" in the topic, I noticed most of them are either solved or locked. Mostly solved. so I guess the tests work. I can also see that some people here have a canned reply ready to go on this subject. Not a bad idea given it's popularity. :>)> “Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' 'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' 'The dog did nothing in the night-time.' 'That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.” Arthur Conan Doyle
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02-12-2019
07:25 AM
I recently downloaded a lot of books to my Kindle Paperwhite, unfortunately, it did a software update at the same time. After that I suddenly had a three book Kindle, because that's all I could get to of my reading list. Usually, when you hit the home icon it will show the first three books of your reading list, and then you can swipe to go through the rest of your books. Now whenever I swiped I was taken to a series of screens telling me how to use my Kindle and how wonderful it was. There seemed to be no escape from these screens, except to hit the home icon again. After many trips around the Kindle menus I finally solved the problem. Just in case anybody here runs into the same problem the solution is: home, settings, all settings, device options, advanced options, home & library, and then turn home screen view off. I had never touched this setting before, and my other Kindle that was off, and didn't receive the update still worked properly. Attention! All Kindle software design idiots! The first rule of software updates is to not break your users system with one. IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line. The Devil's Dictionary
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02-11-2019
10:12 PM
@MarkJFine wrote: Easy answer for an Ops guy: Cost, especially when you're giving free installations. You want the cheapest, most efficient, and available techs........ Well, judging by the posts I see here, I can see they may get the cheapest, but IMO often not the most efficient, or available. I would still advise people to find their own tech company, and not to have a provider choose it for them. Of course, if you're getting free installation you may not have this choice. Although I even wonder about that. If I sent someone to my tech company for a new Hughes installation, and Hughes was running a free installation promotion at the time, I think they would probably still get it. I found a good tech company years ago. I also think they're honest, because whenever I've called them asking if there's a better alternative to Hughes, they always tell me no, rather than trying to sell me something else and collecting another commission or installation fee.
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02-11-2019
02:39 PM
@kitnbob wrote: @gaines_wright Didn't Patuxent Phil predict an early spring last week? I trust groundhogs more than i trust cats. I trust my own judgement more than old wives tales. I'm predicting an early spring here. Went to town today and noticed the Redbuds are blooming. Next will be the Dogwoods, very pretty if they overlap, pink and white. Of course we'll get one more frost around Easter. Unfortunately after that it sometimes turns instantly hot.
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02-11-2019
11:44 AM
It seems to me that many of the customer complaints here are not really about Hughes per se, but are about the tech companies that Hughes chooses to do the work. There're rude, they never show up when they say they are, they can't get here for a week, they don't have proper ID, etc. For example, posted 3 hours ago: https://community.hughesnet.com/t5/Tech-Support/Modem-not-working/m-p/109634#M74400 How does Hughes or any other provider choose these companies? It seems to me that they often don't choose wisely. I've dealt with Hughes, Directv, and Dishtv, and none of them chose the very good tech company that I discovered that's only twenty miles away to do the work. Even though this company is authorized to work on all three of them, and just about anything else. When my original Hughes installation was done, they sent a tech company from over seventy five miles away. They did a good job -- maybe too good. They put the dish on a piece of 2" schedule 40 galvanized pipe set in the ground in a lot concrete. Since then with the newer satellites the dish had to be moved about 50' away, this time my new tech company put it on a more sensible EMT pipe. I just had them leave leave the old 2" galvanized pipe in place, since it would have been very difficult to move. It sure looks lonely out there all by itself, but maybe some day the dish will migrate back to it. :>)> This is why I often advise people here that are obviously having problems with the tech company chosen by Hughes, to find their own tech company, and not depend on Hughes to choose one for them. This did cause me to get a flag from a user for moderator interference one time. :>)> "No state has an inherent right to survive through conscript troops and, in the long run, no state ever has. Roman matrons used to say to their sons: “Come back with your shield, or on it.” Later on this custom declined. So did Rome." Lazarus Long
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02-10-2019
02:46 PM
1 Kudo
@lm8542 wrote: Hello. I am once again befuddled. 239.0.0.0 is a route in my routing table on the ht2000w router/modem that vanishes after a power outage or reboot. If I reset the device the routing table comes back with the 239.0.0.0 added again. I need to know if I should have this route as it has once again disappeared ? What is this route for? I thought it might have something to do with the wireless bridge...? Thanks for any feedback as I am clueless. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_address I'm still clueless after reading the above link Maybe you'll do better. :>)> If everything is working alright, I wouldn't worry about it too much. I know, inquiring minds want to know. :>)>
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02-10-2019
06:19 AM
1 Kudo
@GabeU wrote: @gaines_wright It looks like you're on Beam 57 of the Echostar 17 (J1) satellite. If so, your Gateway is in Englewood, CO. Thanks. You know, would't it be nice if someone compiled a list of-- Nooooooo! I'm not going to fall for that again! :>)>
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02-09-2019
11:34 AM
1 Kudo
Here in the hammock it's 68, with more rain expected on Tuesday and Friday. Just what we don't need! The river is holding steady at 9.1'. Flood stage is 10.0'. I'm also noticing definite signs of spring. I'm starting to hear the spring time crickets, the azaleas are in bloom, and the birds are starting to appear. No humming birds yet, but they will probably be here in a week or so. Time to get the ole feeder ready. Well, that's about it for the hammock weather report. :>)> Glad to see you made it through the blizzard alright!
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02-09-2019
09:29 AM
During my problems with weird happenings I decided to find out where my gateway was located. Although I didn't really think the problem was between me and the gateway I thought I'd check the weather at my gateway anyway. First I searched for gateway id 10 here, with no results that helped. Ditto with gateway location. I admit I only looked at three pages of results each time. Then with Google, I found a tutorial at: https://chucksbasix.com/2017/10/06/how-to-find-your-hughesnet-gateway/ On how to find your gateway location using your IP Gateway Association State. Mine is: ENG57HNSIGW54A001 Appling the method in the turorial to the above I get a gateway location of: G57. Which makes no sense that I can see. Also the length of my IPGAS is different than his example I give up! Where the heck is gateway id 10, and can this be determined from ones IPGAS? FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit. The Devil's Dictionary
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02-09-2019
12:51 AM
@MrBuster wrote: @gaines_wright wrote: Well, he was talked into getting Viasat in the first place by what was IMO deceptive marketing. I.E. telling him that he was going to be able to get rid of his satellite TV bill with a 10 gig data plan. This guy has zero interest in the internet other wise. 10 gig data plan! I am behind the times! Well, I probably misspoke. I think he actually told me it was a fifty dollar a month plan. I have no experience with Viasat, I just assumed it was 10 gig. I considered Viasat shortly after my problems with gen5. I called my tech company, and they told me I already had the best deal that was available with Hughes.
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