About Wadebear

I've been downloading a 26.11 MB update to a game on one of my Android devices for the past hour.  It's at 58%. ... View more

Well yesterday night (ahhh.. you know what I mean) I did my updates and they actually downloaded at a decent rate. ... View more

Tonight's Android updates are as slow as molasses in the winter in Mananas Massachusetts. ... View more

How is this still not fixed? I just did the every-other-day updates on my Android tablet.  Not as slow as sometimes, but it still took quite some time. ... View more

This morning my speeds are ok. ... View more

I did finally have to drive into town to get my updates so I could play the new event on Tapped Out. ... View more

If anything it's worse.  I may have to drive back into town to finish my updates. ... View more

I've been sitting here an hour waiting on a 51.91 MB update to finish on Android.  It's at 30%. The same update on iOS finished in about 30 miniutes. ... View more

My speed goes up and down.  I got iOS 10 downloaded fine, but it took 45 minutes for a small update on my Android tablet a little later. ... View more

It's a case of no news is good news.  The modem has been behaving - at least well enough so it's not a constant nuisance. ... View more

Since the uplink has stabilized I haven't been watching the page as much, so I'm not sure.  I know that sometimes it's stopped me from getting to a web page or knocked me out of my games because I've checked to see what the issue was when I couldn't get somewhere. Oops, I spoke too soon.  I just checked and the uplink has been out a couple of times this hour.  It could be the weather though.  We got knocked off line for several minutes earlier today when a storm cell blew past. Which option would I turn off in the router to help improve things? ... View more

Well, the uplink issues seem to be straightened out, but it keeps disconnecting on the LAN. ... View more

Another 24+ hours.  Only one red X on the Hourly History: for the 8 AM hour yesterday (um... Thursday).  Definite improvement. ... View more

Ok, so it's been 24+ hours... According to the Hourly History on the modem there haven't been any uplink problems - but it doesn't always record them.  There have been several times when I've seen uplink errors on the Current Hour History that didn't show up later in the Hourly History page. But anyway... Now the LAN connection is dropping out.  The Hourly History shows 4 Xs within the last 24 hours, and there's a 5th on on the Current Hour History.  I'll try plugging the router in another socket. and see what happens. ... View more

It's actually been behaving itself since I rebooted the network earlier today.  I couldn't log into EA site, but I think it's the web site. I was trying to track any pattern to it, but I couldn't.  It just seems random.  ... View more

Unfortunately the problem with developing anything for Linux is that Linux isn't just one operating system.  It's a whole slew of operating systems, each one with minor and major differences, so a program written for one version wouldn't necessarily work on another. For example: I'm using Linux Mint with Cinnamon - Cinnamon being the GUI interface.  I used to use Linux MInt with Mate but had issues with the Bluetooth drivers.  I tried switching to Cinnamon to see if it would solve the issue and liked it much better - for the most part.  There are still some things I miss from Mate. Zoneminder, the multi camera security system we use, runs on Linux and is currently not too difficult to run on Mint, but I have spent more hours than I care to admit trying to get it to work (and keep working) on various versions of Linux in the past. ... View more

On the LAN side everything appears to be working fine, but we're still having problems with the uplink and DNS acceleration going out. I learned what I know about setting up routers the hard way: Trial and error.  Lots and lots of errors. ... View more

I just finished setting up and configuring the router.  I had to make some changes to the recommended configuration to accommodate our video surveillance system (can't access it without a static IP and it's already bookmarked in all our computers and devices).  So I set it up with a DHCP reservation. If we continue to have trouble I'll reset the thing to standard configuration and deal with it, but having had to deal with a change in the surveillance system  IP in the past I know it's a MAJOR hassle. ... View more

We had a bandwidth leak.  It turned out to be my husband's computer.  It was connecting to a number of services in the background and eating up our monthly allotment. To determine where your bandwidth is going disconnect all your computers and turn off all your network devices: smart phones, tablets, smart TVs, BlueRay players, etc.  Plug them in one at a time and watch your bandwidth meter at 192.168.0.1 (this is the modem's web page). Piece of advice: turn automatic updates OFF on any tablets and smart phones.  Those updates can eat your data allowance for lunch. ... View more

I'm setting up to reset the router.  There's something wrong with the wireless for sure.  The last few days it takes several minutes for the game to start up on my 2 Android tablets - they just sit there with a black screen (the game starts normally on my iPad mini).  Yesterday I did a test with an old router and the games started right up with no waiting.  When I switched them back the black screen hold-up came back. The cable from the modem to the radio is what the installer put in years ago, back when the modems needed a dual cable - and when another installer changed us over to the new dish for G4 he commented that it was the correct type.  I wish he hadn't cut the end off the unused one because then I could switch them over and see if that alleviated the problem. ... View more

The uplink was fine from midnight to 8 AM, then it started dropping out again.  6 red Xs so far this hour.  I've been playing my games since 4 AM so I'm gonna say it's not my games, especially since I was doing neighbor visits earlier which is the most network active part of the game given that I have to load each neighbor's town configuration into my game so I can search it for things to tap. ... View more

No, my games have been closed for 30 minutes and the uplink is still going out. ... View more

It's still doing the same thing. Yesterday afternoon I opened my games and immediately started getting uplink errors.  I swapped my tablets over to my Hot Spot and they stopped.  Later I switched back to the satellite and was able to stay on all night, then this morning the uplink started dropping out again.  This hour shows 5 red Xs so far. I tried switching to an old router as a test, but it's still doing it.  Although that did clear up an issue with the game starting very slowly on 2 of my devices (Android).  I'll have to look into that. Here's a question: Should I have IPV6 turned on in the router?  I had it turned off with the HT1000.  While I'm asking...  How exactly should I have the router set up?  It's an ASUS RT-AC66U. I have the WAN set to Dynamic Ip. Router LAN address 192.168.1.1 ... View more

Actually I need to check some stuff out on the LAN.  We've been told repeatedly that the problem is with our router so I tried various changes to eliminate the router as a problem source. I had the router set up as 192.168.1.1 with manually assigned IP addresses for our equipment using the router's reservation system - the only way I could find to give all our various internet enabled devices a static IP.  Static IPs were especially needed for the network printer and camera monitoring system - without them we couldn't connect with either of them. I tried various changes to the router settings.  I even tried putting it into Access Point mode.  Nothing helped with the Uplink dropouts. I think I have the router set back up the way I had it.  If the problem persists I saved a configuration file on my laptop and can restore it. ... View more

Well now I don't know if my makeshift shield did anything or not.  Today we've had a line of red Xs across our Current Hour History page on the modem and I've been booted out of my games over and over.  If the game tries to talk to the server and it doesn't get a response then the game kicks you to a No Connection page. ... View more

John's other half here... This morning I put a makeshift shield (cardboard covered with aluminum foil) around the modem.  Until about 4 PM it's been the best connection day we've had so far with this HT1100.  I didn't get kicked out of The Simpsons Tapped Out all day - at least not on all 3 of my devices at once (and no, it's not unusual for people playing Tapped Out to play more than one game. Or 2. Or 3. Or 6.  We tappers are a weird bunch...) Right now I'm getting kicked out of Tapped Out right, left, and center.  I can't even get into another game I play: Tripeaks Solitaire.  I can't reach the server to download my game save stats. ... View more

John's other half here... This morning I put a makeshift shield (cardboard covered with aluminum foil) around the modem.  Until about 4 PM it's been the best connection day we've had so far with this HT1100.  I didn't get kicked out of The Simpsons Tapped Out all day - at least not on all 3 of my devices at once (and no, it's not unusual for people playing Tapped Out to play more than one game. Or 2. Or 3. Or 6.  We tappers are a weird bunch...) Right now I'm getting kicked out of Tapped Out right, left, and center.  I can't even get into another game I play: Tripeaks Solitaire.  I can't reach the server to download my game save stats. ... View more