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Re: Sayings that irk me
GabeU, oh no! George W. Bush always said, "nukular"! In fact, there is a classic SNL skit where Bush and Tony Blair are holding a joint press conference. Blair says something about nuclear weapons and Bush corrects him and tells Blair, "It's pronounced NUK U LAR!"7KViews3likes0CommentsRe: Sayings that irk me
maratsade GabeU BirdDog MarkJFine et al. I once text messaged my son, whose reply came back, "You are the only person I know who would use a semi-colon in a text!" To which I replied, naturally, "How else do you expect me to join two independent clauses?" MarkJFine, I've never heard "physical year," but I love it!!7.1KViews2likes2CommentsRe: Sayings that irk me
BirdDog, Standing "on line" is an east coast, especially NYC/DC expression, which is why you hear many east coast journalists use it. East coast sitcoms use it too. Jerry Seinfeld used to annoy me with it weekly, haha! To me, it sounds like someone painted a line on the floor and everyone's standing on it. To my daughter, it sounds like they are somehow standing on the internet, lol! On the other hand, standing "in line" is insufferable to those who grew up learning "on line." That reminds me of how jarring it is to my ears to hear anyone refer to a soft drink as a "pop," when obviously the correct term is "soda." ;-) maratsade, Let's all get with the British way and just "queue up" and be "in the queue!" GabeU, my mother, who was an English teacher, and even more of a grammar/spelling/pronunciation police officer than I, would have loved you and your list! Three terms I would add: •Frustrated, not fustrated •Library, not libary •February, not Febuary Things I cannot abide seeing in print: •I need to loose weight. •I want to see that show to. •Anything with the word "prolly." •I actually saw this in a submitted academic journal article from a full professor: I like to have my students pier review each other's work. (What does this entail? Study groups sitting out on a pier? Critical analysis done at the local Pier One Imports?) •I wish I wouldn't of done that. •Your welcome!7.1KViews3likes10CommentsRe: misleading info given by sales call and now need to pay early termination fee, HELP!
Hi @branbomn, I highly suspect your issue was being in FAP (Fair Access Policy, meaning when they slow you way down because you have run out of data). I think this for two reasons. First, you mentioned the first month went fine and just a few days into month two you were running super slow and couldn't stream. Well, you get unlimited data the first month, so that makes a lot of sense. Second, you mentioned you upped your data and therefore your speeds were back up to normal. That tells me you had run out of data and were being throttled, as it is called. Once you purchased more data, your speeds were returned to normal. It is true what maratsade, GabeU, and your sales rep told you, in a technical sense. When you are in FAP, it is mainly just good for text browsing--you can read the news, check your email, etc. But it's not much good beyond that because it's just so darn slow. If you want to stream something short on Youtube, you can probably do it in low resolution, if you pause it at the beginning and let it load (give it LOTS of time to load!). But if you want to stream a movie, forget about it, unless you have the patience of Job! You'll be buffering every 15 seconds and it will take you 4 hours to watch a 90 minute movie (in my experience ). OPTIONS: • Buy more data • Stream movies during bonus time (I think it's 2:00-7:00 AM most locations) • Set your device to download movies during bonus time and then watch them whenever • ALWAYS watch video in the lowest resolution available! There are other threads on here that explain how to do that. • Search the history here and learn all the hacks for using less data. Just watching in low res vs. high res can increase your streaming time by a factor of three or more! • Do Netflix the old-fashioned way, via disc by mail. With Hughesnet, you cannot watch unlimited movies because you have limited data. However, you CAN stretch the data you have immensely by learning some simple tips and tricks! I hope this helps. Sincerely, Debbie6.3KViews0likes1CommentRe: Why not just fly up there and fix it?
MarkJFine maratsade GabeU, Amanda BirdDog I remember watching an episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man" back in college, circa 1979, where Austin needed to get the bad guys, but they were taking off in a helicopter. So Col. Steve Austin jumps way into the air and grabs ahold of one of the runners. THEN he does a sort of pull-up, essentially bringing down the copter by virtue of his bionic biceps--using strength rather than mass to bring it down. Now THAT is some pretty amazing circumvention of the laws of physics! The movie "The Day After Tomorrow" has some pretty agregious climate change science as well as some breaking of the laws of physics. But it also has Dennis Quaid, so who cares? MarkJFine, I've got all ten seasons of Stargate SG-1 (no questionable science there, lol!) on Amazon Prime. I'm about to download them all onto an extra hard drive I have, as soon as I can locate it in my tornado otherwise known as my office, haha! BUT I was going to say, read the reviews because there are apparently two outfits putting out the discs and one definitely gets far better reviews than the other!8.4KViews0likes5CommentsRe: Useless headlines
Hi chiquita! I agree. I've never used HN as my homepage, but MS Edge does the same thing--all Hollywood gossip and click-bait. Thus, my homepage is BBC News. If you want news to come up as your homepage, you can choose from the American usual suspects, i.e. NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, CNN, etc., or go to virtually any news provider in the world.3.9KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Slow speeds during peak hours
Hi , We really would be happy to help! There are a lot of ways you can improve the quality of your Hughesnet experience, but first we have to know what's going awry. There is a bit of work at your end, starting with communication. If you don't reply or just give up, a moderator will close the thread and then we have to start all over again the next time. Second, there will be series of tests you will need to perform, following the instructions to the letter. Yes, this can be a pain in the backside, but really it's not all that bad. Besides, a little inconvenience now surely would be worth it to resolve your speed issues, right? And that's it! Just keep communicating with us and follow directions on testing. I'm sure we can get to the bottom of this. Frankly, I doubt it's simply a matter of congestion since you seem to imply that it happens consistently, all day every day. It may be a partial explanation. But let's find out! In any event, we can get you answers, if you're willing to engage with us. EDIT: If you do want help, please open a new thread in tech support. Thanks! Sincerely, Debbie6.6KViews0likes3Comments