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Just want to point out that an uptick in spam to your email address has a lot more to do with the amount of active spam bots and hijacked email servers (which always sees an uptick this time of year) than it does with your email use. If your address is already on a list that is propagating to the spam bots then it's already out there. Right now, about 95% of it is coming from China.   Also want to point out that these guys are now changing their tactics faster than Spam Assassin (what most email servers use to detect and block spam) can update their spam-detection algorithms. The only fully effective way to block it all is to literally block everything that's not on a whitelist of desired senders, and let everything else go to Junk. Or, like I do in most cases, to /dev/nul, so I don't even have to clear it.   ... View more

I'm beginning to think speed tests can be worthless.  I have spent probably 12 hours or more over the past month or so with tech support - Level 1, 2, 3 and I guess what amounts to 4 - engineering. My modem has been replaced and a technician came out to find my dish was a bit out of alignment and some mounting screws loose. After all of this nothing changed.  My speed tests (testmy.net and Hughesnet) tend to stay about 1Mbps download with 2-3 Mbps upload. I set up testmy.net to run a test very 2 hours and see most download tests at less than 2Mbps.  But sometimes I do see better - some still less than Hughesnet's goal of 15.  Sometimes I get bursts of over 25.  But what's odd is that the various levels of tech support to include engineering have had extensive problems running speed tests from their end. Most of the time they get 0.  They tell me they get zero and I run a test and get a figure (always low).     BUT - I can stream Youtube, HBO MAX, Amazon Prime.  I can run a speed test and get less than 1 Mbps and then immediately open a streaming site and stream fine, and then immediately run a speed test and still get less than 1.     I don't get it.  ... View more