jonathanm1978

I'd rather pay more to burn natural gas. Electricity is cheap. Coal is filthy.

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?)

Unless you are an executive overseeing the wireless operations, theres no need to take criticism of your employer's decision to continue to operate an archaic network personally.

 

I work for a bank. They put food on my table and in return, I sign an agreement prohibiting myself from slandering them or sharing anything about my employment with the media or on social media. Now, are they infallable? No. Do I understand why people get mad at my employer or disagree with it? Yep. And do I privately even disdain from 100% belief that all decisions made by my employer are correct? Oh heck yeah. Your employer is good to you and we dont doubt that, but elevating them beyond personal tolerance of criticism, given the circumstances, is a little odd.

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.)

No one said they wanted Southern Company to fail? Only that it made more sense for them to outsource their communications than to continue to support iDEN? I think you're being a bit dramatic. So they put food on your table and you work for a power company? What does that have to do with members here discussing them ceasing to offer PTT service?

Now this is getting ridiculous. It is one thing to build your own network, when you have the spectrum, but a whole nother thing to get into manufacturing to build custom phones, which need custom processors, antennas, etc. Is this company going to build its own nationwide network?

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.

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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

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When my phone boots it will come on then reboot itself. Everytime I turn it on. JB is crap if you ask me. There are lots of little bugs

 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

you can get 1000 ft of Ethernet for around a hundred or so on monoprice.com. run it to your barn and put an access point out there. Plus you never know when you might find having internet in your barn useful.

 

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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)

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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.

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That's ironic, man.... I'm using an e2500 with dd-wrt at my home to repeat my own Wi-Fi. Yes it's decent and you can alter Tx and Rx power in the dd-wrt menu.

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Wifi repeater? To me that means find a router at Walmart that will handle DD-WRT...install DD-WRT and turn on wireless repeating.

Broadcom chips usually do better at repeating than the Atheros chipsets...there are lots of probs with Atheros used as repeater.

I have 8 repeaters set-up for different folks around the area, including one for my neighbor..and one in my own house.

I actually have a business set-up with a wifi repeater...a router I bought from Wal-Mart and put DD-WRT on it.This is what I did for all of them...instead of buying a "repeater" that costs more than a small router...buy a cheap router that will take the DD-WRT software.

They have a wiki that tells you the routers supported.

BF3 is my drug!!

I got a 6-core PC with 8 gigs of ddr3 that would easily run BF3...but my PS3 gets the glory...

While PC may rock-out with smoother gaming experience...unless you use a magnifying glass on your TV, you can't convince the casual gamer to go with PC over console....plus, console ...errr..PS3 doesn't cost anything for multiplayer...that sells me.

BF3 will be it until the PS4 drops..whenever that may happen to be.

I have this same unit and get the same issues with multiple texts going out. I also notice that the GPS often drops the signal and takes forever and a day to reconnect, making it useless during that time. It's very frustrating and I'm certainly also hoping the NV upgrades will improve my connections at home, either directly or via this Airvana unit.

If GPS drops, then you definitely need to move to using the external antenna (provided with the device)...or move the existing external antenna to a better spot. I've had an Airave since the samsung version...and I've only ever had problems when GPS was too weak. Once I found a spot where GPS was picking up about 18-21 satellites, I've never had it drop GPS again...3 years ago was the last time it happened.

 

 

The biggest problem is possibly 'sniffing' what's going by...

You mean, like uh....a fart?

And even for non-typical user like myself, the only thing I would be changing in the ##DATA# menu would be the LTE/CDMA/HDR modes.

What do you change about these modes, and what's their effect??

edited..wasn't paying attention here.

I've never found much in these menus to be very helpful...

The CDMA tool won't map eHRPD properly if you try to map the base station...I don't know if eHRPD doesn't give out it's coordinates, or if it just doesn't pick it up properly...but the other day it was showing me base stations in the middle of the highway...in the middle of the river...etc..and places where I KNEW there was no tower.

I already have a pack of 5 that I bought when I got my GS3..but I'm always game for free stuff! Tried it and will post if I receive tag.