jonathanm1978

So I'm eligible for upgrade now on two of my four lines...and I'd like suggestions on what I should do....do I trade my SGS3 and get the SGS4, or do I need to wait on something upcoming today may be better than what I can get right now? I hate to go pay the fees and then in two months have a brand new "oooh I want it" coming out.

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I don't understand the foreign ownership thing when Vodafone owns so much of VZW, and T-Mobile is partly owned by Deutsche Telekom AG as well.  

 

it's because they're asian, not european.  

 

racist, fear mongering xxxxxxxx.  

Truth be told, with Japanese culture in mind, I'd trust them before any other Euro-Asian foreign entity...The Japanese heritage and belief system are often more moral-based than even American belief systems...and considerably more-so comparing Japanese politics vs American politics...

You could almost pick this apart with facts and hardware specifics that other companies use in their equipment:

DISH Network Corporation DISH -0.61% , through its subsidiary DISH Network L.L.C., provides approximately 14.092 million satellite TV customers, as of March 31, 2013, with the highest quality programming and technology with the most choices at the best value(opinion), including HD Free for Life®. Subscribers enjoy the largest high definition line-up with more than 200 national HD channels, the most international channels, and award-winning HD and DVR technology(opinion). DISH Network Corporation's subsidiary, Blockbuster L.L.C., delivers family entertainment to millions of customers around the world.(DAMN SURE opinion...nothing on Blockbuster that I've ever wanted to watch, EVER..even with it free. DISH Network Corporation is a Fortune 200 company(but don't look at how leveraged it is as a whole). Visit www.dish.com.

As a side note, I hope the day of the vote that Charlie gets a speeding ticket on the way to work, his wife admits to a 20 year affair with a woman because of his smalldickitis, nagra3 gets hacked wide open with FTA boxes again, and all the people he's sued in the last 3 years see him at a bar that night -- ON TOP OF finding out that Sprint laughed at his bid for them.

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Maybe we should also have a countdown to the vote on Softbank or dish by board. It is going to play a major part in how a good many of us might take our cellular phone business in the future...

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Couple bonded pairs here and there and a card in the C.O. is all in some cases.

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I found out that I needed to use that mode with port 1 being where I plug in my bridged modem, but the confusing part, I'm used to having Wi-Fi plus all four router ports as internet access, apparently I don't have that with the other 3 ports, except number 3 or something?

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Someone familiar with ubiquity please tell me...what's the difference in router, and SOHO router under the network tab? In router, the LAN had no internet while the wireless LAN did have internet. Changed to SOHO router and both LAN and WLAN had internet and work like normal now.

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I had been waiting for a reason to put this Airrouter HP that I bought a while back into service...I really am not that familiar with Ubiquiti products, but decided this was the opportunity to hook it up and let the Ubiquiti airrouter handle the PPPoE protocol on the new DSL line...so I thought "quick job, no problem"...

WRONG.

I did my best to set the router up according to the proper settings...and got wireless and network tabs set on the ubi router...put the modem in PPPoE bridged mode...and thought that would be it.

Kept getting a popup on my laptop soon as I would hit apply and the router rebooted that I needed to enter additional login information, and it would open FFox and take me to a password reset tool for at&t. I knew I had the right password, and kept thinking it was a issue with the router not handling pppoe properly. Many resets later and finally going through the password reset, would you believe that since I took the Netgear/Westell 7550 off of router mode and bridged it that I was FORCED to change the DSL network password in order to use the internet again?

It would not connect at all using the old password, and forced me to reset it before it would let the Ubiquiti router connect using PPPoE.

I never heard of such...something new AT&T is doing??

I'm starting the work today of separating / balancing, and with the new line being in the back of the house, I'm not going to be able to do what I intended with the Airave and Vonage...I wanted each one on it's own DSL line...then I remembered the GPS antenna that I have to put somewhere...

Maybe i'll move vonage to the back...

It's gone from an "aha" job to a "ahh hell" job.

I got it hooked up at the box this evening around 5, so I just did a rush job to get the line inside and sync'd. Instead of using the other pair in my cat 5, I just ran a fresh line into my bedroom for now, just so I could do self-install. Had to pick email, DSL network password, etc. For now, the modems are a few hundred feet apart, but I might go back and grab a empty pair in my old DSL line so I can put them side by side and try this pfsense. I don't have the extra network card currently to run them in together, then back out to router.

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I don't know that I'm going to do that to begin with (shared bonding)...I think for now, I'll just balance things out using routers....since I have a static IP on my main, current DSL line, I'll use it for the IP cam and my PS3, and the new line will be for phones, receivers, computers, etc....

That times two. I currently have 6mbit down / 512kbit upload, and I'm hooking up a second line with same speeds.

So 12mbit down and 1mbit upload

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My current desktop has 1 pci-e x16 and 1 pci-e x4. I think. I built it two years ago, 6 core amd with 8gb of ddr3. One slot is long and has my video card, one is really short, has nothing. Then I have an empty pci slot. I would need a pci-e nic, then a pci nic.

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People do run pfsense on a virtual machine, you just need three ethernet ports on your pc.

would pci create a bottleneck in a scenario with one on-board and two nic cards?

With pfsense, can I run a virtual machine with that installed and keep my Windows 7 64.

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You need a proper QOS implementation on a router running Tomato or something like that. Works great once you get it tuned and working.

 

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I don't have much exp with that, yet...but I tinkered with it in DD-WRT when my wife wanted me to stop my daughter from staying up all night on her iPod sending texts from that textfree app...

So I put a timer on the MAC of the ipod, shutting down i'net after 7:30pm, and not before 9:00am...

They don't because they suck on their dsl. They don't want to maintain it, so they let it sit for years without maintenance.

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With two ps3 consoles, I need each one exposed to public ip for Nat to work right

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I just re=read your post...

I actually am getting ANOTHER copper DSL line...just like having 2 phone lines with separate lines...I"m going to have two DSL lines with separate modems for each one. Two separate billable numbers...two separate syncs to the dslam...

I was just going to split things off and divide up the things I used for internet...vonage on one DSL line...Sprint airave on the other...one ps3 on 1st DSL line....2nd PS3 on second DSL line... etc, etc.

No...nothing else avail.

I wish there was something...I literally can throw a rock and hit the DSLAM (or the hut that houses the DSLAM, ya know).

We used to call it the bellsouth hut...but it's where the fiber that comes under my driveway runs into...plus where the cell phone tower for AT&T (which is a mile up the road from me) is fed by fiber as well. I hope they upgrade this cell tower to 4G...because they'll have to change DSLAM equipment inside this hut if they do.

On the phone with tech now about it, and they are also going to try and expedite the order for the 2nd DSL line...she's saying she doesn't believe they can do the bonded pair deal...

updated:

They don't do bonded pairing on DSL...appears to be mostly for U-verse installations where they do that, if it's one of those uverse-over-copper deals, where the DSLAM is fiber-fed but copper to the home.

She said I can go into the modem and see what settings I can play with...

I have a large selection of routers as well, but I don't know that any of them, even the Buffalo w/DD-WRT pro and Ubiquiti router + Nanostation loco M2, have the ability to pair connections (once the PPPoE is done, obviously in the modem(s) separately)....

If anyone has any ideas, I'm willing to try what I can with the connection once it's up on the 2nd DSL line and see what I can come up with.

AT&T. I got a bit smart with the rep yesterday and told the person I was placing the order with that "AT&T had no competition in my area, so there isn't any reason for them to invest into putting U-Verse in here...but hey, there's a reason why the United States ranks 9th in broadband speeds across the world..."...

They didn't mention this when I talked to the rep...for an hour that it took to get this order placed....I was just ready to get off the phone (non-American and kept saying "it will not be many longer, I promise, thank you for patience"

So..with only 6meg down, 512k up...I'm tired of my daughters iPhone pictures/videos causing me problems when she takes them...seems like the iPhone I added last week was the tipping point between being too much for my connection to handle...

Every time she takes photos and videos and they start uploading or syncing...or whatever...I start having problems with upload speed.

I have:

2 PS3 consoles (which a second line will solve the problem of not being able to get nat type 2. I already get NAT 2 on mine, but can't expose the IP to the 2nd PS3 and get NAT 2).

2 SGS3 that sync with ...all that junk

1 iphone

Vonage

Sprint Airave

1 Smart TV

Roku

On-Demand satellite

IP Sec camera w/sound

and the computers that access the connection at any given time...usually 2-3 computer connections.

With all that stuff, I'm starting to have problems with upload, and even noticing ping times that really suck, especially since I spend LOTS of time on multiplayer games, like Battlefield 3 and CoD BO2...

Question I'm pondering is what can I do with two DSL lines, since I already placed the order...

I'm thinking about just cancelling the order but I really need to do something ...if I stop or unplug things, then I can't use my services like Vonage and Sprint Airave...the IP cam has been unplugged for a couple of weeks because it just can't do anything with my upload speed being so low...

I'm hoping adding a 2nd 6meg download/512k upload will alleviate some of the pressure on just one DSL line.

Start sharing things that are well explained and make sense on your twitter. Perhaps you can influence this boob to steal and write some things that make sense.

Maybe he should join this site, only then will he actually learn something that's FACTUAL and based in reality....

Wherever his analytical info comes from needs a diaper change and possibly a bottle/pacifier.