swintec

4 wheel drive or even 10 wheel drive wont help you with drunk tourists, drunk and tired locals and tree branches on the road. everyone gets severe thunderstorms at times. we all know what the responsible and safe thing to do during these storms are, i dont have kids but i can imagine it is even more important if you are trucking kids around. You may truck on during these storms but you have to worry about what else is out there as far as debris and crazies out on the road...both of which 4 wheel drive will not matter. We get a lot of snow here. You will always see folks who are new to 4x4s flying around the roads during a storm and hey, thats great...you get awesome traction. But...AWD or FWD does not help you stop. they find this out when you come up on them in the ditch. I feel like you may be putting AWD and four wheel drive up on a pedestal more than it should be. For what it may be worth, I have been driving the past 13 maine winters in a small 4x2 pickup truck without any issues. I recently picked up a used Volvo and i still prefer my rear wheel drive truck versus the front wheel drive volvo in the snow. It would surprise me if many in Hawaii even have a 4x4. Is it really even popular there, outside of those who do serious off roading? The problem i have with All wheel drive cars is that you cant just replace one or two of the tires if something happens. You need to do all at once which can add to the cost big time. Ive never been to hawaii so i may be missing something but if the reasons you listed above are the extent of what you will experience i would just buy a car that meets your needs elsewhere (space, reviews, safety, etc) over AWD unless you get a screaming deal.

has he said he wont work on it anymore?

fair enough, I assume you mean Gannet and Sinclair and the likes? i agree with you there, they are more or less negotiating FOR their local channels in the local markets. The problem is, they have the option to be broadcast on the cable systems...they can simply invoke the must carry rule, end of story. They throw that out and decide to go all out and charge per subscriber and have the local affiliates put crawlers on the bottom of the screens, air commercials, facebook campaigns, etc about how the local citizens need to call Time Warner or Comcast to tell the cable company to keep the station on the air. I just wish it was made more clear to the masses what is actually happening behind the scenes with must carry and declining that to try to get paid per sub. The retransmission fees are just a money grab to keep a broken distribution model running and was simply lobbied for when the stations realized they could not make the numbers work anymore with ads and must carry. I dont really care so much about the spectrum. I just want to see Aero win to set precedence and maybe get some innovation going. These stations will flip out if Aero wins.

I would not word it that simple as it makes the networks look like saints. The local stations have two options when it comes to cable companies. Either request payment for the right to rebroadcast the stations signal (and hope the consumer demand of the station causes the cable company to buckle and pay it) OR they can invoke the must carry rule and REQUIRE the cable company to carry the station but they wont get paid for it...they will have to hope the ad revenue among other things keeps them afloat. Which do you think most stations are leaning towards now a days? Ad revenue is in the toilet the past few years as no one really cares about them. This is why you see these local disputes so often now with the stations trying to appeal to viewers to put pressure on the cable companies for them. Personally, I think the cable companies having to pay for the locals is incredibly stupid. Not to spook you, but TW has hinted that if Aero passes the test with the Supreme Court they will look to embed the Aero functionality into their cable set top boxes. You can bet most other cable companies will follow suit. It will be a great day when they can bully the local stations back and give them a big "eff you!". Then we can see how relevant they really are when they have to operate under the simple must carry rule.

No problems. I am on .17 radio fwiw.

FWIW, I was connected to my Airave and the time updated just fine.

errr..the clocks go ahead this weekend. Spring ahead, Fall back.

no but you made to REroot afterwards. the last update broke my root and i had to do it over but since it is only like 2 clicks i didnt mind.

They could just as easily make phones from a certain point onwards not allowable on any plans except the newest ones. Although if that happened it wouldnt matter if i am locked in for another 2 years besides being able to keep plan price. So i am betting on that not happening.

cant you just upgrade on Amazon or Best Buy? I just tried on Amazon and it shows I am eligible for an upgrade and it will process the order accordingly. I am on a SERO-P plan but i dont know if that has anything to do with it. Now I am wondering if i should take the upgrade (and know i have the plan for at least another 2 years) and then just sell the phone since i am happy with the nexus 5. Last i knew nothing was formally announced about upgrades going away?

I thought this was a bug because when it connects to LTE the extra icon goes away.

"..no mobile network coverage." If you are within sprint coverage, you have mobile network coverage. If you are within a roaming partners coverage, you have mobile network coverage. Subtract the two, you have no mobile network coverage....and this says it will work with no mobile network coverage.

I know i have asked before but no one mentioned they did...but am I the only one who has issues with GV handling voicemail? It does not work reliably *at all*. It usually will not pull new messages and I have to screw around with delete the new message, loading the trash folder which causes it to sync and then I have to undelete the new message from the trash so it goes back to the Inbox and hopefully it will be downloaded so i can listen to it.

SPs can use there SSN as their EIN if they want to, at least as far as the IRS is concerned. I assume by income under your SSN you mean a 'normal' W2 issuing job? To answer your question, of course you can have no income reported. If I have Swintecs Ebay Emporium selling junk on Ebay and i didnt sell anything at all in 2013...I would put nothing. Worse case, the IRS would ask (they wouldnt, but just assume here they did) you simply say I was busy with other things. Maybe I will have better luck next year. How would they leverage a penalty on you for that? 15% penalty on 0 is.....0. I havent really used my EIN ever, which I got years ago. I just use my SSN since any income earned as a SP is grouped together as a total anyways. What I wonder is, since the IRS considers a SSN a legal EIN for SP businesses, will sprint? A lot of users sign up for business ISP service without any issues. This wouldnt be any different.

What tax problems? The IRS considers sole proprietors 'business' income and income from any other sources (day job, etc) all as one combined. If you didnt sell any widgets last year you would just report...nothing. The only headache is if you tried to get ballsy and deduct the cost of the hotspot plan but I dont think anyone would try that.

that price is crazy to.

I think they give them out like candy...hence why they limit them to one per day now. Certainly not a deterrent for someone seeking out unlimited data.

it is filling out a form on the IRS website and you get your EIN at the conclusion. When I got mine several years ago I think they had to mail it to me but it was quite easy besides that. EDIT- As a sole proprietor it is very easy.

ive had an airave ever since they debuted them several years ago. never any battery issues.

Premier Sponsor PRL has EVDO roaming while the regular sponsor PRL has normal 1xRTT roaming like stock sprint PRLs.

Optimum doesnt run Fiber to the curb for every user. Unless you are simply saying you can see the fiber. I can see TWs fiber in several areas around here. cable architecture brings cable to the node. the node is a media converter from light to RF (fiber to coax) with the coax running throughout that segment around the area to homes. Comcast brings fiber more or less to the home for their 505 MBit tier but that is not a DOCSIS tier any longer. In optimums case they have had to drop the number of homes passed per node considerably in order to compete with FiOS. More nodes means more fiber needing to be run so yes I suppose fiber may be a bit deeper into the network than your normal cable plant elsewhere but they have the luxury of being in such a dense market of homes passed that this was relatively "easy" for them. FiOS really isnt that much better than Optimum when you look at services offered, channel line ups, costs, etc. I read abotu quite a few users leaving optimum only to come back since the grass on FiOS wasnt as green as they thought.

You can use that prl with the nexus 5 just fine. several of us are.

Huh? What are you saying they use at the backbone level then? It is all fiber from the node back to the CMTS and outward. From the node to the customer premises it is Coax...but that is just like any other cable company. Optimum has a limited foot print in a very dense area around NY and New Jersey. I dont believe you would see the same level of service if they were a national ISP operating outside of that small area. As for FiOS...they have their fair share of complaints due to price and limitations with TV offerings.

I didnt notice anything better about .15 over .17 but then again i dont have any band 41 sites. Problem with .15 for me was that data would just drop out completely causing the radio to reset or reconnect in the middle of doing something. I would look at the 3G icon and it would disappear and come back after 2-3 seconds. possibly .17 was a release that addressed this among other things. Im not sure but i had to go back to .17 for now.

Certain slots on certain channels are given to the cable company to sell local ads. Like you will see decent higher quality ads on the national networks and then it will cut to a lesser picture quality ad for a business in your area like Bobs house of yarn. These are the ones where sometimes the timing is off by a second or so and some other national ad starts but the local run then begins as it should of. No way they would get a cut of the normal ads that are run by these channels. On the internet side of things, they seem to like to strangle the speed potential of DOCSIS 3 but the capability is there. Comcast wins in that department but they neuter it with their speed caps. Oh..I forgot another TW innovation that they have done for us. Switched Digital Video which allows so much more channels to be on the cable system since they dont send them all to the cable box at once. Just when it is requested by the set top box. They arent perfect thats for sure but the little things add up from a tech stand point and I know they arent sitting on their hands doing nothing. I just wish the networks would allow them to do more.