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gaines_wright · ‎06-10-2019

@MarkJFine wrote: @chicoc3 wrote: Three months ago Hughes Net forced me to take their Gen5 service. They literally tied you up and made you do it? Threatented your family? Gimme a break with the hyperbole. No one forced you to do anything. Of course no representative of the great god Hughes would ever tell a little white lie or coerce a customer. Actually, I've seen cases where the salesmen for both Hughes and Viasat engaged in sales techniques verging on outright fraud IMO. "Does history record any case in which the majority was right?" Lazarus Long

gaines_wright · ‎05-05-2019

I too was a programmer/integrater, since retired for 16 years. If by "unplugged" you mean from the power, I agree with maratsade that there is no way it can be using data, If just the LAN cable is unplugged you'll have to disable the WIFI also. There's all kind of devices that will connect to your WIFI and gobble up your data. My very first post here was about how I was convinced Hughes was cheating on data usage. After almost a year of tests, the details of which I won't bore you with, I came to the conclusion that if they were cheating it was only about .5 gig a month. BTW there's a couple of posts pinned to the top here on data usage.

gaines_wright · ‎04-29-2019

Breninithaca "...I only show 4 items right now - my PC, my son's PC, my iphone, and my son's ipad...." This is just a wild guess, but I had a similar problem about a year ago. It turned out to be an I-phone, the person who owned the I-phone assured me that it was no longer connected to my WIFI but I could see that it still was. I changed my password to one unknown by the I-phone and the problem was gone. Needless to say I didn't give the new password to the I-phone owner and I've never allowed an I-phone on my WIFI since. I'm probably one of the few people in the world that does not even own any kind of smart phone, so I asked a guy with a lot of experience with I-phones, and he told me that by default an I-phone updates all of it's installed apps periodically, and this can use gigs of data. He also said this can be turned off at the I-phone. I've since reluctantly allowed an I-pad on my network, and didn't have any problems with it. BTW it's been my experience that Kindles don't show up on the network when turned off. When turned on they show up as a private network IP address.

gaines_wright · ‎04-23-2019

maratsade "DVR recordings are legal under copyright law's fair use doctrine, and the courts have consistently upheld this doctrine." I hope it stays that way, but looking at the history of the music file sharers, I have my doubts, Also it seems that you can't make a copy and give it to somebody. From First Circuit Court, Sony BMG Music Entertainment v Tenebaum: "Although the First Circuit Court, in its opinion, recommends Congress to reanalyze its copyright laws ..." Amen! "Peer-to-peer file sharing of copyrighted works by individuals for the purpose of "enjoyment" is not fair use." Boooo! Did I just accidentally stumble into a legal forum? :>)>

gaines_wright · ‎04-23-2019

@maratsade wrote: The system functions as a cloud-based DVR and is covered, legally, by copyright and usage rules that apply to DVRs. There are no cases against the company because they are not in violation of copyright law and so there is no cause for action. I think the legality of DVRs is based on a decision by the Ninth Circuit Court, one of the most reversed circuit courts in the country. I think the media companies have given up trying to stop DVRs and POC though. That said, the minute you make a copy you're technically in violation of copyright laws. Don't get me wrong, I'm strickly on the consumers side in this, and love it then the media companies lose. For an example of media company greed: Warner held the copyright on "Happy Birthday to You" and wanted as much as $700 every time it was sung at birthday parties. How they were able to get a copyright in the first place is a mystery to me, since the tune was written in 1893, If that's the way our present copyright laws are written IMO they need to be changed. Thank goodness Warner eventually lost and had to pay $14 million in damages. Take that! Big greedy media company! :>)>

gaines_wright · ‎04-23-2019

Thanks for the link. Actually, I did some research on the web about this including reading that article. After hours of reading boring legal stuff, I came to the conclusion that the legal status of files downloaded from PlayOn is iffy. Making copies is probably technically illegal, but I didn't find a case where anyone was sued or prosecuted. IMO another one of those things the big media companies would love to stop people from doing, but are unable to do so. Now if we could just get rid of the bundling of TV stations.

gaines_wright · ‎04-23-2019

I got far enough to get on Playon's email list but didn't continue. Back when Avatar first came out, a friend loaned me the DVD. I later bought it on Blu-ray and was amazed at how much better it looked on Blu-ray, so I decided to wait for GoT to come out on Blu-ray. Does Playon support Blu-ray quality? If so, that would really take a lot of data. I'm glad you like it! Although I would be upset to use that much data so fast. I'm still a 10 gig wonder. :>)> BTW all of this is still copyrighted material, and copying it around may be illegal. I surprised one of the lawyers here hasn't pointed that out. Well, the way I feel about it is: So! Arrest me! :>)>

gaines_wright · ‎04-23-2019

@C0RR0SIVE wrote: Ehh, BBS/Forums have been around a long time, that was the "Social Media" before the likes of FB, Myspace, and god knows what else came along with the creation of smartphones. I would gladly go back to old school forums, but even those had likes/dislikes if it was coded in back in the late 90's and early 00's. I think the biggest reason I've stayed here for so long is that it reminds me of my old BBS days. Back then I only hung around a couple of boards, the main one being a 'C' programming forum on which nobody used handles. I must of stopped following BBSs before the social aspects became popular. I kind of agree with Linus, except I would say it encourages childish behavior rather than just bad behavior. To show what an old curmudgeon I am, I don't even have a smartphone. People seem amazed when they ask for my cell phone number and I tell them I don't have one. A little white lie, actually I have an old flip phone in my pocket which is turned off except on those rare occasions when I need to make a call.

gaines_wright · ‎04-22-2019

GabeU I tried the link you posted, it looks to me like the times are in in GMT. If so, that seems to me to be a totally useless bit of information for troubleshooting a network. Well, I guess it could be useful if you have a telescope on your network. :>)>

gaines_wright · ‎04-21-2019

Assuming you are talking about a ht2000 modem, you have to password it in four different places. I didn't realize this myself, back when I was having trouble with an I-phone eating up my data. If you leave one radio unprotected an I-phone will find it. Just FYI: FULL_BISKIT looks suspiciously like FULL_BISCUIT. The latter is an amazon echo dot device MEDIATEK is a maker of chips for smart phones and tablets. CSM_RADAR is an amazon device. Looks to me like you may have left a radio unprotected on your WIFI and these devices are in range and have found it. Very sneaky creatures, data leeches. :>)>

gaines_wright · ‎04-15-2019

From a recent interview with Linus Torvalds, for whom the Linux OS is named: "Linux Journal: If you had to fix one thing about the networked world, what would it be? Linus: Nothing technical. But, I absolutely detest modern "social media" -- Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. It's a disease. It seems to encourage bad behavior..." Amen! "Add in anonymity, and it's just disgusting. When you don't even put your real name on your garbage (or the garbage you share or like), it really doesn't help. I'm actually one of those people who thinks that anonymity is overrated....." One of the things I've always disliked about this forum is its social media aspects: The ranking system, new poster, freshman, etc. All these kudos ( likes ) flying around. Here I was merrily interneting along, and then I upgraded to gen5, and immediately started having data usage problems, and I posted here about it. Been here off and on ever since. If it's a desease, I guess I've caught it. :>)> If anybody interested, here's a link to some more of the interview: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/04/03/1829244/linus-torvalds-on-social-media-its-a-disease-it-seems-to-encourage-bad-behavior

gaines_wright · ‎04-15-2019

Richearl "Has anyone had this problem and if did the Video Data Saver really help?" I've never used it myself, I don't stream video, but I've seen posts here about it being useful. Even at the lowest resolution you are going to use about 1 gig of data per hour of video. IMO satellite internet is totally unsuitable for streaming video, but the sales people keep using streaming as a selling point. This verges on fraud IMO. Even if one had unlimited data you may run into buffering problems, because of the connection speed. From what I've read here you can overcome some of these problems by using Play on Cloud, which allows you to stream a video to a cloud server, and then download it during the bonus period. Then you can watch it as many times as you want with no buffering, If you have access to a cable ISP, that would be your best move. Of course Hughes is probably going to threaten you with a early termination fee if you try to cancel. Simple, refuse to pay it! A friend of mine told them that he would send them back their equipment, but he was not going to pay them another cent, and they agreed. He's 72 as I am, and like me, couldn't care less about his credit rating.

gaines_wright · ‎04-11-2019

@macsociety wrote: I have never used an Ad Blocker. Do they may these for Mac OS X, iOS devices, and Ubuntu Linux? I'm running Linux Mint 18.3 with Firefox as a browser, and I run a Javascript script blocker, a pop up blocker and an ad blocker. All Firefox add ons. You sometimes have to white list a site on the Java script blocker to get it to function. Some sites will refuse to run because of my ad blocker, these I usually drop. Some sites will whine about my ad blocker but then run anyway. Another thing that can save data is to avoid using the back button on your browser. If you are going to return to a page after going to a link, it saves data to leave the page open, and open the link in a new tab.

gaines_wright · ‎04-06-2019

@BirdDog wrote: @gaines_wright wrote: If the terminals in your panel continue to "run hot" after tighening the connections, you may still have electrical problems. Pretty much an indication of an overload problem, something is drawing too much current. Not something I would ignore. What is your main service amp rating? Could be, but since he had a utility out to look things over, I was assuming that everything was sized correctly, and they had also checked the current loads on everything. Just a few minutes work with a clamp on ammeter. Still the way he descibed the heat inside the panel would bother any electrician. If everything is sized correctly, heat usually indicates bad connections.

gaines_wright · ‎04-06-2019

Thanks for the update! So many times around here, people just fade away, and you never really find out what happened. "Please keep in mind that main breaker box terminals are very hot. I was advised by the power company not to change out the main breaker without calling the power company so they can shut down the power to avoid electrocution and or any unnecessary light shows." Some of us here suspected that you had some sort of electrical problem. Heat is not a good sign! Back when I was an industrial electrician, we had a company come in twice a year and take infrared photos of all of our electical equipment, looking for hot spots. Saved the company a ton of money to fix the hot spots on down day, rather than suffer an unplanned outage later. If the terminals in your panel continue to "run hot" after tighening the connections, you may still have electrical problems.

gaines_wright · ‎04-01-2019

Joey104 *How do i get a WIFI REPEATER from Hughesnet?* Why does it have to be from HughesNet? I would guess your not on gen5, which already has WIFI capabilities built into the modem. If you just want to add WIFI to a Hughes system, this is the one I used before gen5: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BTL0OA/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Or if you are already on gen5, and just need an extender, there's many of them on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=wifi+extender&i=electronics&ref=nb_sb_noss

gaines_wright · ‎03-30-2019

I wish all I got were emails, I'm getting telemarketer robo calls about this, even though I haven't run Windoze for over five years. They keep switching numbers that look like they're in my in my area code, so a blacklist type call blocker won't work.

gaines_wright · ‎03-29-2019

@MarkJFine wrote: Should be the same as my Mac... FreeBSD version. Well, again thanks. I may abandon my attempts to understand all of this, especially since today I did another trace to aol.com, and found that many of the hops past the first 6 had disappeared. Yesterday I had several hops to telia, which is in Sweden, and hinet which is in Taiwan. All gone today, aol.com went from 22 hops to 15 hops overnight. Ahhh! It just occurred to me that the routing table could be constantly changing, and this makes the hops change also. Question is, do I really need to know all of this stuff while retired and 72 years old? I'll probably stick with it for a while, I've always loved useless information. :>)>

gaines_wright · ‎03-29-2019

Thanks for the info. I guess the differences may be caused by my use of the Linux version of traceroute.

gaines_wright · ‎03-28-2019

I've been doing a lot of expermenting with traceroute today. I'm just sort of stumbling around in the dark with this. One of the thngs I've discovered is that the first 6 entries seem to be the same no matter where I'm tracing to: 1 192.168.42.1 (192.168.42.1) 0.223 ms 0.236 ms 0.274 ms // Hughes router 2 100.67.205.153 (100.67.205.153) 0.905 ms 1.016 ms 1.169 ms // Shared address 3 dpc6935186182.direcpc.com (69.35.186.182) 589.663 ms 589.681 ms 589.643 ms // Hughes site 4 dpc6935188058.direcpc.com (69.35.188.58) 1369.224 ms 1369.243 ms 1369.193 ms // Hughes site 5 ae13-575.edge3.Denver1.Level3.net (4.28.103.141) 1369.171 ms 1369.150 ms 1369.125 ms // CenturyLink 6 * * * The text after the C++ style comment is what I've been able to discover about the address so far. When CenturyLink appeared I remembered your post.

gaines_wright · ‎03-28-2019

@maratsade wrote: I'm a big fan of PlayOn Cloud........ Wow, you guys have finally convinced me! Just in time for the last season of Game of Thrones, and I've got 18 days to learn how to use it.

gaines_wright · ‎03-27-2019

@gaines_wright wrote: BTW if you upgrade to gen5, make sure you don't plug the modem in to your system until the bonus period, otherwise you'll take a big hit to your anytime data just for the modem to initialize. GabeU "To prevent any confusion to the OP or anyone else who reads through this thread, the above statement is incorrect. Neither data required for modem activation and initialization, nor that required for a modem software update/upgrade, is deducted from customer data." Well, it was definitely correct in my case. I remember because it was the first time I had run out of data since the daily limit days. A friend of mine had the exact same thing happen to him when he upgraded. This was some time ago, things may have changed since then. "Specifically regarding the OP, an upgrade to Gen5 would almost assuredly require a tech visit, at which time the tech would power the new modem to start the activation and initialization process." Neither I, nor my friend had a tech do anything We both talked to Hughes on the phone and they sent us new HT2000 modems, and told us to just plug them in to our systems. Unfortunately we both did this during the anytime data period and took a big anytime data hit. "As well, the OP would receive the initial twenty days of data replenishment that new customers, and those upgrading from legacy plans to Gen5, are given, so even in the event that there was some type of system glitch and the above mentioned data was incorrectly drawn from the OP's data bank, it wouldn't matter." Again none of that happened with me or my friend. Seems like I remember having this same discussion with you some time ago. If I remember correctly, none of the above applies to a gen4 to gen5 upgrade. I guess gen4 doesn't qualify as a legacy system. "Legacy system" is that kind of like "no hard data limits"? :>)> Since he's running a HN9000, I guess that would be a gen3 system, and he would probably get the data break also. Seems strange to me that it actually pays to wait 2 generations before updating your Hughes system. To prevent any confusion to anyone else who reads through this thread, ( Sorry GabeU, I couldn't resist! :>)> ) if you're just going from gen4 to gen5, and are only doing a modem upgrade, I would still advise doing the upgrade during the bonus period. It certainly wouldn't hurt anything to do so and it might save you a big anytime data hit. BTW what the heck is an OP? Other person?

gaines_wright · ‎03-27-2019

@MarkJFine wrote: Yahoo, AOL... I think it's all Verizon under the Oath: logo, aka Verizon Media. Well, that explains everything! This is all an evil plot by Verizon to sabotage a competitor. :>)>

gaines_wright · ‎03-27-2019

@bos2420 wrote: Apparently, this happens with any 'Old Timey' website. Just tried to look at a link on Yahoo. Same error message. Figured it was just the link. Tried to go to Yahoo.com. Nope. Went to the phone hotspot. Loads right up. E-mail sent to Customer Service, requesting to test a new modem. Ah, the plot thickens! Here's what I get running traceroute to aol.com: traceroute to aol.com (106.10.218.150), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 192.168.42.1 (192.168.42.1) 0.278 ms 0.249 ms 0.231 ms 2 100.67.205.153 (100.67.205.153) 0.470 ms 0.523 ms 0.610 ms 3 dpc6935186182.direcpc.com (69.35.186.182) 627.393 ms 687.188 ms 687.168 ms 4 dpc6935188058.direcpc.com (69.35.188.58) 687.121 ms 707.026 ms 707.022 ms 5 ae13-575.edge3.Denver1.Level3.net (4.28.103.141) 706.975 ms 725.744 ms 725.895 ms 6 * * * 7 PCCW-level3-30G.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.68.110.246) 791.410 ms 791.437 ms 791.389 ms 8 TenGE0-1-0-17.br02.hkg12.pccwbtn.net (63.218.174.61) 981.199 ms 786.976 ms 766.663 ms 9 63-216-176-170.static.pccwglobal.net (63.216.176.170) 756.616 ms 766.603 ms 744.669 ms 10 et-3-3-0.pat1.sgy.yahoo.com (183.177.82.40) 764.490 ms 774.403 ms 838.837 ms 11 ae-5.msr1.sg3.yahoo.com (203.84.209.87) 838.634 ms 789.498 ms 789.302 ms 12 ae-2.clr2-a-gdc.sg3.yahoo.com (106.10.128.5) 789.140 ms ae-2.clr1-a-gdc.sg3.yahoo.com (106.10.128.3) 879.374 ms 779.340 ms 13 lo0.fab1-3-gdc.sg3.yahoo.com (106.10.131.217) 865.655 ms lo0.fab2-3-gdc.sg3.yahoo.com (106.10.131.216) 855.578 ms lo0.fab4-3-gdc.sg3.yahoo.com (106.10.131.214) 889.348 ms 14 lo0.usw2-1-lba.sg3.yahoo.com (106.10.128.239) 889.240 ms lo0.usw1-1-lba.sg3.yahoo.com (106.10.128.238) 869.501 ms lo0.usw2-1-lba.sg3.yahoo.com (106.10.128.239) 859.566 ms 15 w2.src4.vip.sg3.yahoo.com (106.10.218.150) 779.505 ms 779.419 ms 789.324 ms As you can see, yahoo.com shows up several times. Like I said before I'm not sure about what all of this means, but it looks like yahoo.com is on the way to aol.com. Or maybe I should say it's in the way. :>)> I doubt the modem is your problem. I think the problem is past the Hughes gateway. I'm surprised you haven't heard from a mod about this yet. Like I said, I've seen problems that were similar before. BTW if you upgrade to gen5, make sure you don't plug the modem in to your system until the bonus period, otherwise you'll take a big hit to your anytime data just for the modem to initialize.

gaines_wright · ‎03-26-2019

I had a similar problem last year, except it effected several sites for three days. I think your problem is probably somewhere out in that never-never land past the Hughes gateway. When I run a traceroute from a Linux terminal for aol.com it goes through 30 hops. I don't claim to be an expert on all this, but it seems to me that a problem with any of these hops could make aol.com unreachable. Your hot spot is probably not using the bad hop and therefore works. I know this is not going to be much help, but I've seen this sort of problem before, and I think it will eventually be resolved. Posting about it here is a good start.

gaines_wright · ‎03-20-2019

@lthum wrote: Starting this morning, I am unable to connect with some websites, many of which I generally visit daily. I have tried clearing cookies, rebooting the modem and router as well as rebooting my computer. Any ideas on what might fix this would be greatly appreciated! I had a similar problem in June of last year. I'm running Linux Mint as my OS, and Firefox as my browser. The error mesage was: "The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading." After posting about it here, the problem went away with no intervention on my part, after about 3 days of not being able to reach certain sites. Hopefully, the same the same thing will happen with you.

gaines_wright · ‎03-19-2019

@GabeU wrote: @reluttr wrote: Thanks! Everything is back up and running now. 🙂 Good to hear! Did they end up having to replace the coax? I hope this is not going to be another one of those threads where everything is fixed, but you can't figure out what was actually done. I was betting on a bad radio, just because not much can go wrong with coax unless it's physically damaged. Hope we both get an answer soon.

gaines_wright · ‎03-18-2019

maratsade "PlayOn Cloud does not offer memberships; they offer storage plans. The cheapest storage plan is $2.99 a month (there is no $8 plan)....." Ah, I see I didn't google deep enough. They've changed everything. Well, their disclaimer says that things are liable to change at any time. "Recording with PlayOn Cloud is legal, and you can record from many sources, including Hulu, Prime, HBO, Netflix, Showtime, etc." The big media companies would like to make it illegal if they could. From what I've read, the actual legal status of POC downloaded videos is still a little iffy. "Please be advised that using apps such as VideoDownloadHelper to record shows is actually illegal and that the MPAA and other agencies do crack down on such things." A quote from the POC CEO: "We've looked a lot at legal precedent," Lawrence says. "We've looked at when the DVR came to market, and generally speaking, other than some noise, it really wasn't challenged." What's good for POC should apply to VDH also. AFAIK neither are paying the media companies royalties. I fail to see any real difference between POC and VDH other than cost, either way you end up with your own personal copy, which the media companies absolutely hate, because you can make another copy, and give it to your friends, etc. There are a lot of things that are technically illegal. For example, I've ripped my whole CD music collection down to MP3s and have copies on two different computers and in each of my vehicles. The day a SWAT team shows up to confiscate my illegal music or my illegal videos, is the day I'll join the new American Revolution! BTW "Please be advised..." Sounds like radio talk from my old Military Police days. Just wondering, were you a fellow MP? "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." William Shakespeare

gaines_wright · ‎03-17-2019

@MarkJFine wrote: Oh... the memories. I forget what I used to use. Wasn't SLMR, but was something I used for RIME, FIDO, et. all. Wait... it was RelayMail. Used that for years. I might even have it here on some 5.25" media that I can no longer read and is likely degaussed by nature... but I can't bear to throw anything away, so it's still here. You can still get USB 3.5 floppy drives fairly easily, not so 5.25s. I couldn't find the CD of my 'C' library of functions, that I had written or acquired over 20 years, so I bought a 3.5 USB drive expecting to recover it from the many 3.5 disks that I still had. The disks data was still readable, but I had somehow lost the 'C' library disks. Just goes to show that you can never have too many backups! Anybody want a copy of Turbo 'C', Borland 'C', Microsoft 'C', and Power 'C' on the original 3.5 floppies? Just kidding, I'm going to hang on to them. :>)>

gaines_wright · ‎03-17-2019

reluttr "Back when I was stuck with 3Mbps with windstream I had to "start" the video, immediately pause it, and let it buffer/load a sizable chunk before unpausing the video......" IMO no satellite internet is suitable for streaming videos in the long run. You can get around the buffering problem by using an add on like VideoDownloadHelper to capture the video to a file and then watch it as many times as you want to offline with no buffering. It's a little clunky to use, but it works for me. There's another app called PlayonCloud that I've seen mentioned here many times, I've never used it myself since it costs $8.99 a month, whereas VideoDownloadHelper is free. Keep in mind that video uses about 1 gig an hour of your data.

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