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May get to the point that they only offer a certain handset to employees for the PTT (and obviously to external subs if so wanted), and other devices to their subs that aren't PTT but have something like the new Direct Connect Now app that's available for the Qualcomm 8655 chip.. ??

Thanks for that in-depth observation...bandwagon. jumped. on. And it did have something to do with people assuming SoLinc passed on anything to electric consumers. They are two separate entities inside a company...even while using service as an operating expense, the rate plans are comparable to nationwide providers. But hey..I see what you did there.. (BTW..what he quoted is the only thing that was there when he quoted it. I edited and added the remaining part into it ...)

You're the one who said they do this. I countered. If the topic should stay on path, then why say things you can't back-up with evidence or internal information? Don't ask me to get back on topic when you claim they pass on expenses to their 'millions of customers who have no choice'...This site is all about presenting factual information, and this isn't factual to say these things.

Southern Co and it's subsidiaries still tout one of the lowest electricity rates across the US compared to other providers. Though the percentages have gone down since the economic crisis, they still range 10% to 15% cheaper than any other.. I'd much rather have no choice to purchase their power, which is costing me an average of $115/month with a central air unit in a 4 bedroom brick home...than to pay what folks out west pay, especially in places like Cali, where they regularly run out of power and have random brown-outs. I hate to be devil's advocate here, but there are a few comments that are far from truth..when it comes to renewables, they are in a league of their own. A 100mW biomass plant in Texas, converting a coal plant to biomass in GA, micro-turbines on billboards, a geothermal 30mW job in Hawaii, refuse-powered generators in Bay County, FL... Right now they are building two nuclear facilities in GA. A record they hold in Nuclear is never having any level of threat at their plants, because of the safety they put in place. Before a nuke reactor scrubs, they have so many things that have to be in place, where in Japan, they had 2 things that safeguarded the nuke and both of them were disabled. I think we should mainly just talk about SoLinc and not try to say that they pass much onto their customer, when their customers enjoy some of the lowest rates for electricity in the entire US.. One thing that was thrown at me was how many other utilities there are that DONT operate their own iDEN network and they do just fine...well, SoComp operates their own iDEN network and still don't raise rates to compensate for the cost of it because those utilities that don't do it..charge more for electricity than SoComp does. I'm glad we aren't getting personal with this..but I also have internal information to go on that many may not be aware of.

Has anyone checked on pricing of southern Linc service before assuming they pass the buck? Line of service, no minute restriction: $27.95/month, data add-on = $10, text add-on = $5. Insurance and other extras available at comparable prices of other carriers. I don't really see where in the past two years they've passed the buck on to external customers. Oh, and they foot the bill for their 26,000 employees that they give phones to. Someone said that they had around 32,000 subs but it says in the article they have 150,000. add to that the employees that they don't collect money from and you have a pretty reasonable amount for a small carrier. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2 (edit) And you would think, since they have to cover their employees phones, that they would pass that cost onto paying customers that are stuck in two year/one year agreements...but it doesn't appear that they do...their pricing doesn't reflect that, rather. I know for what SoLinc costs per line..and what I pay for Sprint, per line...and I don't understand how they do it so cheap. Where a phone with data and text on Solinc costs about $42/$45 a month...it costs me on average, $70/month. I have 3 lines, and the Airvana...bill runs right at $192...and we divide by 3 and my sis-in-law pays $70/month for her line (after taxes/insurance blah blah, it comes to $212 a month total).

Could be right. They may do that. Not discussing the coal thing, I stated fact about a smokestack and it was met with... Nat gas is cleaner. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

Well that goes against what this article states and we don't have much open room to discuss anything else Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

Pardon my blunt response..but you don't know what you're talking about. One of the stacks at my wife's plant burns coal...and the expelled "waste" is LESS THAN ONE PERCENT harmful (so of the coal burned, less than 1% of it is wasted and can't be captured.) I won't even go into the huge (Federally funded, and operated) Carbon capture units they have on the plant site... so obviously while coal USED to be nasty to burn...we get the prospectus each year that shows how much money they invest into "green" and efficient technology. And there are still some plants that aren't up to par..but they aren't a part of SoComp...so don't just assume ... (then again..why in the hell would we want to use something that WE HAVE PLENTY OF on our own soil..when we can move towards full foreign dependency if we do away with it?)

Ok..back in September, in another thread..I said that SoLinc wouldn't just end iDEN when Sprint shut down..and they would do whatever to continue. I was blasted for my thoughts and told about how impossible it was..Do I think they are infallable? no way..but I just gave some insight from what I saw of the company since I have a personal relationship with them.. My insight wasn't taken seriously...and this is what I'm referring to.. Other than the SoLinc thing...I see a bunch of things I wish SoComp would do different..especially when it comes to unions, the IBEW..benefits...PAY...and seniority. I won't even get into the Credit union (employees federal) that SoComp operates. They are a company, out to make money...and I didn't appreciate the union (IBEW) sending us a damn OBAMA sticker in the mail just before election -- especially when the guy wants to do away with coal (essentially making us pay MORE for electricity because they have to burn natgas.)

According to this particular article...why yes...yes they are. some editing has been done and the more personal comments removed..but I did get quite a few smart remarks thrown my way when I brought up that I foresaw SoLinc keeping things the way they are and not moving away from iDEN in June 2013.. but like I said in the old thread...we really don't know what's going to happen, so probably it's best not to guess at this point. I have my opinion, which is partially biased because I see personally how they operate..others have their opinion, from the outside looking in...and for now, I just happened to be right about my initial thoughts of them not moving away from iDEN when Sprint shuts down their end of things in June.

I agree it's worth it...but at this point, too much guessing is going on and not enough is known about what they plan on doing. When I mentioned some of this earlier, in October, and said basically the same thing this article reiterates, I was almost laughed away and told how much sense I didn't make.. I know it's hard to fathom that someone on the internet might be right..but in this case, I was correct...and finally just quit reading the thread because of the route it took.

I thought the thread was interesting to discuss..but people are throwing smartass remarks at the company that puts food on my table, so I elegantly bowed out of discussing this. I can understand discussing the how's and why's of SOCO..but when it comes to disparaging remarks about them (and even I said that I didn't see them shutting down the PTT/iDEN because of how it's used)..it's no longer intelligent conversation and is just immature guessing. You people would feel the same way if this company was your sole means of paying bills and livelihood, I don't understand what the problem is with them...did they personally do something to one of you?

I'm just into making it where my neighbour can surf web pages, I'm not trying to become a small wireless ISP provider for my neighborhood. If I was getting paid to keep a reliable connection so my neighbour could run a server or they were even helping with the bill, I would look into more expensive equipment. But I'm doing this for free because they are on disability and can't afford their own internet, so it's cheaper for me to grab a $30 router that accepts dd-wrt and use it rather than invest hundreds into something that I personally don't even use. I don't even log into their router, so I don't use my own equipment. And don't get me wrong, they've been surfing with this equipment running dd-wrt for a few years now, so it's not like it doesn't work. I've had to replace one router, because the los puts his router in a bathroom window and the heat is extreme. Imagine, a router running for years sitting in a window where the sun is directly on the window for 4 hours a day. It's at least 120 degrees right at the window where the router is sitting. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

I understand what you're saying...I really do. But ..if I lived somewhere with neighbors that had wifi...had cordless 2.4ghz phones and other things using that same band, I would think twice about it...but I dont. I can cut EVERY single router that I own off, and do a wifi scan with my phone...you know what I pick up? NOTHING. Not a single router anywhere around my house, nowhere. The closest router to my house is at the little one-horse gas station that's over 1 mile away from me... And just cutting my yard with a riding mower. I pick up the repeated signal just fine through the entire yard. Together, my neighbor and myself have a combined 3 acres... Speedtests from my neighbors: 5.6mbps down, .42mbps up. We're only talking a 6meg connection being repeated.. And I haven't touched the power settings on any of my DDWRT routers because it becomes unreliable. Mine (the one being repeated): My neighbors (the repeater, and rebroadcasting a different SSID for him to connect to):

You got to buy 2 boxes to have a repeater? My scenario used one box to repeat the signal, so I'm wondering since I thought about buying this brand ...if I need to buy 2 of them to do the same thing I've been doing for 3 years with one box, I'll just prob keep what I'm doing now Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

It's not JB, that's for sure. Too many ROMS based on the leak LJ7 that don't have this problem, either update.zip is corrupted or some other problem. A little bit of ODIN with a stock ROM and a reflash could fix the problem. You're probably a factory data reset away from having the issue stop...have you tried ANYTHING instead of just assuming that software that's been deployed to THOUSANDS of phones so far has a flaw in it ...More detail would be quite helpful.

I really think the only thing that's going to save me and keep me with having DSL here is the fact that 1) I'm not "last mile" DSL. I literally live next door to the hut where the dslam is located. 2) the hut next door feeds the fiber back to the cell tower that's one mile up the road. And this is the big thing, AT&T will keep the cell site active using this hut, and likely will upgrade the backhaul to it for the stuff they call 4g. And that upgrade should mean them installing an ipdslam instead of the one they have now. Fingers crossed. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

I know the type internet you are taking about, and its good stuff unless you get just a hair off with the little square antenna. My in-laws have the same type with a power injector inline, I have dealt with every popular brand of router you can get, because of my home business, so my experience with them is all personal. They aren't all bad, Netgear is becoming cheap-made now but used to be ok, Linksys was junk until Cisco started building the units with their specs instead of them operating as two different companies. Belkin has never honked my horn in routers but they are great in other devices and have outstanding customer service. Asus has stepped it's game up as well, so has D-link but still they are lacking. Linksys used to have a.c.adapter problems and so did Netgear. When customers have me come fix their internet, most are addicted to Facebook's stupid little games and they want their point& click back without waiting any amount of time, so I'm usually forced to send them to Wal-Mart if they need a router, but I never buy my own personal electronics from that place. I tried with one customer, 4 years ago, to get them to let me order a router from Newegg for them, and I was told they wanted it now and if I didn't want to do the work that day, they would call best buy and bring them in. Take note that best buy was over an hour from this customer... but I was unemployed at the time and badly needed the money so I quickly saved the job and did the Wal-Mart thing. Maybe my next router, which I'm considering buying after Christmas, will be the ubi products. You shouldn't need anything to hook it up, same as any router. Plug it in, let it boot, then go open a web browser and type in the routers ip. Usually 192.168.0.1 ; 192.168.1.1 ; 192.168.11.1 etc. It's normally printed on the sticker on the router along with default credentials. Setup might be different if you're doing repeater, I know what to do to dd-wrt as a repeater since I've been running repeaters for 3 years with that software. Maybe there's a help forum for ubi repeater. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

well..sometimes you just can't wait on an order that would take 2-3 days to arrive, and there's no other choice. I've been presented with this for the business I do computer work for...they had tax returns to send to the Fed that night..their AT&T-provided Netgear piece of junk that they had at the time suddenly quit. This thing handled PPPoE plus had wireless..so they were screwed with not even a way to negotiate the PPPoE...so not even one computer would work online...and the way the tax software works (with them) is the taxes returns had to be sent from the same computer every day...because the software took the windows-assigned product ID and sent it along with each return, along with IP addy and other stuff... So, versus waiting on something to come in the UPS/mail/Fedex...the solution was simple. It may not reach for miles upon miles, but I still have the same router that I started with years ago...a netgear WPN824. It still works, and has been working since 2008 or so when I bought it. Not all residential routers are junk.. I love my Buffalo router -- it's an American-made piece of hardware as well..but I may try the Ubi line down the road, if one of the 5 routers in my house decides to go on the hose. I want to be able to run DD-WRT on my routers...GUI's are so 2005 on routers.

Really doesn't matter, Samsung has their brand they try to swing, but they all do they same thing. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

Only reason I know this is because a customer service rep led me into doing it, and didn't give me the lock code when I did. She said "punch this in, your phone should do this when you hit the last # key. So they at least know about it in tier 1 tech. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

My neighbor lives in a metal-enclosed (as are all) trailer, next door to me. No trees between us, and within 300ft... I live in a modified doublewide myself, but it's been bricked, blocked, and added on to, with a house roof...so I'm double-walled between the outside world -- if you want to call a trailer wall a "wall"... I had the e2500 at his house, in a clear LOS of my home. I had the Netgear WNDR3400v2 in my den, center of the house...and the E2500 was in his bedroom..picking up the signal from the WNDR3400 and repeating it for him to connect to. From box to box, I'd say 350+...then add-in the metal it's going through..not too shabby for a wal-mart special under $60 that serves many purposes if I decide to use it for other things.

This is where you would put a repeater, instead of running a wire to another access point. After a while, the shielding on cat5 will weather unless you put it inside a PVC conduit...and putting a 1000ft of wire inside conduit with unions can't just sit on the ground...so burying it would be a job. Much easier to just put up a repeater. I ran a regular router like what I mentioned above in the Alabama summer (and winter) here...it just wasn't out in the rain obviously...but it withstood the elements of high heat + high humidity, and freezing cold ...and never failed...much easier than stretching a cat5 out my brick wall ...

Sorry, but I have used the same Netgear WNR2000 for 3 years running dd-wrt. The e2500 for over a year running dd-wrt. I bought a buffalo hp as my primary that does the PPPoE handshake, and I've had one router quit on me, a Belkin product. For what you can do with them, the dd-wrt compatible routers are just fine for residential and even business use. The business where I use the dd-wrt repeater is using one of the many WNR2000's that I bought. Unless you start tweaking nvram or push the wrong software to a router, I rarely see one fail. The business uses its internet to file over 1600 tax returns every year electronically, their router never fails (in two years they had it running dd-wrt) Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

Let me know and I'll post up the files you need for the e2500 plus instructions on how to set-up a Wi-Fi repeater. I keep all my files and only update dd-wrt once a year unless there is problems with a build. I can sit tomorrow and gather info for you. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2