About MarkJFine

/me is waiting for National Scotch Day... been a rough few weeks. ... View more

Pretty sure it works the way I just said for everyone, but you be you. ... View more

 Are you sure you heard correctly? If your phone is connected to the HughesNet via wifi and it's using the wifi to connect to the internet, what service did you think it was getting the internet from? It's not getting it from your phone provider. Also, if you have your phone set for wifi calling (which doesn't work well on satellite internet because of latency issues) it too is using your wifi data.   Secondly, your HughesNet high-speed data package has nothing to do with losing wifi - the wifi signal between your phone and the modem is completely different from internet signal between the modem and the satellite (etc.). Loss of wifi is more due to being too far away from the modem. Also, it's rather standard for salespeople to explicitly explain how the speed is throttled down once the high-speed data is used up for the period. ... View more

@Reggie wrote: Only the choose ones are helpful. No, spurring discontent in an unwarranted fashion without any constructive information and redirecting someone else's 'help ticket' into side discussions such as these is not helpful. ... View more

They know the current setup is broken and I believe they were (unsuccessfully) working a replacement email solution last week. Hang tight, everyone. ... View more

Good luck with that. I've always learned communication is a two-way street. If you ignore a valid response to something that's obviously important to you, then prepare to be ignored yourself.   Secondly, this is a user-to-user site available to everyone. Not your personal problem ticket site. Shush yourself. ... View more

If SamKnows is using your data you have the option of disconnecting the white box and killing your account. Not sure how much that's helping your HN service anyway... in fact it sounds quite like the opposite. ... View more

@Reggie  The OP was responded to 2 weeks ago. Feedback was requested at that time and none was provided, so it was assumed it was ignored. Many people on here get their issues resolved and just drop it with no further response, and they can't wait and leave the ticket open forever. No 'wow' needs inserting here - it's really not helpful. ... View more

Maybe because she gave you two weeks to respond and you didn't. Mind reading isn't a prerequisite. ... View more

Since this is HN-specific (has J1, J2, and all available gateway locations / elevations), would there be a problem if I added HughesNet to the title? Likewise, would adding the logo be pushing it or would the legal eagles have an issue? ... View more

I just updated the page and burped the CDN cache ... View more

Changed both distances to output both km and miles. ... View more

50 out of 95,000 or so isn't going to be a big change... 0.05%   ... View more

I just had about 5 brownies (none of which went in MyFitnessPal, btw), which had sharply less of diabetic effect than reading this thread. lol ... View more

@Liz wrote: No one's objected to you pursuing this project so I don't see why you should stop (unless you want to of course). Hooah. Was going to add miles to the kms, but it was mostly there.   Did happen to notice that the new Firefox for iOS (fxios) had a problem with automatically getting the user's geolocation info tho. #fun ... View more

I'd also try rebooting the modem and your computer to refresh the cached DNS and any associated cached routing. That's what I do when Homebrew acts up (uses a Github), and by acts up I mean trickles to a near halt. Seems that there are some really horrendous routes being generated to Github somewhere, and by somewhere, I probably know where (not HN tho). ... View more

One thing to consider is that typically the transmitter in a home satellite setup will be low enough power that sufficient forward error correction is necessary. It's also typical that this kind of forward error correction requires a best of 4 redundancy. So although what you see is 3Mb upload speed, the actual data stream is approximately four times that. Bottom line: The low rate you're seeing is simply an engineering tradeoff to achieve an acceptible level of transmission reliability that's not necessarily required in the receive direction. ... View more

I have a Denon receiver in my office that very occasionally has my phone piped through it. For the most part it's used to pipe the TV audio while running on the treadmill or some other exercise. I might have the radio section on for about five minutes, once a year, just to see what's even still available to listen to just using the roof antenna.   Edit: I might even use it for game audio... ... View more

5975kHz was the long-held frequency for the BBC World Service via the Antigua (or was that Anguilla...) relay station. Clear as a bell, great relaible signal... BBC was how I became a (round) football fan, since they used to air Division I matches most mornings/afternoons on weekends.   CB is part of the shortwave spectrum (starts around 26975... ish?), but I was mostly a listener of international broadcasting than a talker.   Actually had a hobby-related shareware buisness that dealt with automated database-driven receiver control (and some other radio-related tools) for decades. Even published a frequency schedule subscription service for English language broadcasts. ... View more

@Jay wrote: I don't typically listen to traditional AM/FM radio anymore, I know. There's a lot of competition for listenership now, including streaming live broadcasts, music services, podcasts, etc.   Even shortwave radio really took a turn for the worst when international broadcasters saw that live streams were a more cost effective means than maintaining massive tunable antenna arrays, worldwide broadcasting facilities and equipment.   The BBC's relay statio in Antigua used to be legendary on 5975 in the evening. They no longer target the Americas anymore, but you can still hear some of their feeds to Africa in the afternoon.   The technical advances like digital radio (ubiquity, et. al.) and the availability of alternate subcarriers on FM, as well as DRM on shortwave isn't really making as much of a dent in listenership as it was designed. It's mostly something for hobbyists and hipsters to play with, which isn't going to make money for anyone. ... View more

Dunno... but those holly berries are extremely poisonous. I'm not a fan of black pudding or baked beans for breakfast, either. ... View more

I just wonder why just having Mon Day, Tues Day, Wednes Day... et. al. was never special enough. Every day has to have some kind of commercial marketing, product, or other concept promoted as a gimmick and it's gotten to the point where there are more gimmicks than days in the year.   Edit: Don't mind me, I've been in an especially cynical way this week. ... View more

I wouldn't turn down anything, but I'm more of a Wintergreen Lifesavers kinda guy, myself. And yes, I'd take Olive Garden or hotel mints first. ... View more

And it's relative: Pasta Primavera ... View more

Yeah, it was pretty vile. ... View more

Always our Xmas Eve dinner tradition. ... View more

I believe this particular area is intended to be social. And, as tis the subject of this thread, there haven’t been many support posts of late (with the exception of yesterday’s completely inappropriate ranter - there was no call for that). Based on that, your observation could very well be warranted. ... View more