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  1. Bob Newhart
    Naaa, I use a Playstation3, doesn't cost anything extra to use Netflix.
  2. Bob Newhart
    I don't want to pay a monthly fee to MSFT to be able to use the Netflix app either.
  3. Bob Newhart
    True, that is available most places. I didn't consider that broadband, high latency, low caps, not reliable in all weathers.
  4. Bob Newhart
    Do you notice any signal improvement in buildings yet?
  5. Bob Newhart
    Not always possible to get it. Most of the US can not get it, not most people, just most of the land area. People who live in the cities assume everyone can get it. And when people can get, they have no choices, served by monopoly telephone companies like CenturyLink, that don't offer speeds over 1.5 Mbps. Lie about their services, where it can be down for days at a time, or where a 1.5 Mbps service only achieves 0.2 Mbps.
  6. Bob Newhart
    Looks the same as sharedband.com , where you use a router solution, so any device on your network can use it.
  7. Bob Newhart
    Sharedband?
  8. Bob Newhart
    When Sprint 800 Mhz CDMA is launched for us to use, will the voice calls change from 800 to 1900 to 800 on the fly?
  9. Bob Newhart
    Is this why the street address is sometimes way off in your app, as some rural sites might not have a real street address? I have seen it where the app reports an address of the tower location about half a mile away of where it really is.
  10. Bob Newhart
    AT&T is there with LTE in a few cities. ACS and GCI are working together now. Verizon is working with local rural operators, like they have done in the lower 48. http://www.rcrwireless.com/article/20130423/carriers/verizon-wireless-expands-lte-rural-america-program-alaska/ The cell companies make money from providing subsidised cell service to low income or rural households. I know Sprint makes a lot from providing services in Hawaii, it could be the same in Alaska, I don't know, just a guess.
  11. Bob Newhart
    Verizon is building out in Alaska now, very rural there. The two local overpriced companies there have joined up to compete. Good news up there.
  12. Bob Newhart
    I've had that too on occasion.
  13. Bob Newhart
    Drove through Black Diamond tonight, added that on Sensorly. Looks like LTE is up and running for SE33XC138.
  14. Bob Newhart
    Naaa, I had two of those, one Wifi worked ok, one Wifi hardly worked. Once they updated the firmware to 4.0, the phone crawled to a halt.
  15. Bob Newhart
    A non-GSM Nexus? I'll pass. I've had the two previous devices on Sprint, both terrible.
  16. Bob Newhart
    How big is a block?
  17. Bob Newhart
    I use Ubiquity UniFi APs. They have support forums here: http://community.ubnt.com/t5/custom/page/page-id/Forums
  18. Bob Newhart
    For places like NYC, what is considered 'close' together cell cites? Are they closer than 1000 ft sometimes?
  19. Bob Newhart
    Sounds good, if you do try it and need help, let me know.
  20. Bob Newhart
    Try out the pfsense option, free software, it'll load balance for you.
  21. Bob Newhart
    People do run pfsense on a virtual machine, you just need three ethernet ports on your pc.
  22. Bob Newhart
    Before you look into bonding the lines, you need to make sure that the DSLAM that you are connected to is capable of the combined throughput of both lines. Because you can get 6 Mbps on a line, means that your DSLAM is most likely fibre fed. I have two DSL lines, Century(un)Link doesn't offer bonded DSL in my area, so I have to use a third party ISP. The ISP needs to offer MLPPP. I have used Sharedband.com , it works, not as good as MLPPP. To use MLPPP you need a good router, I don't know of any commercial offered ones that support it. I have tried several versions of OpenWRT/TomatoMLPPP and pfsense. Pfsense works, always works, the best choice. If you need any help configuring both lines with pfsense, let me know. If you don't want bonding (combining both lines into a single connection, combined 2 x 6 Mbps = 12 Mbps), look into load balancing which a lot of higher priced routers offer. To get all your devices and connections could be a challenge unless you are pretty handy with network rules. Pfsense can do load balancing too.
  23. Bob Newhart
    I have a Nexus4, I have selected for the app to run on startup, but it doesn't, I have to manually start it. It does run on startup on the Sprint s3 though.
  24. Bob Newhart
    What makes a grey trace instead of purple? I assume it means no signal.
  25. Bob Newhart
    It isn't in a tree, it is the pretend tree. It makes the area look nicer.
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