centermedic

You might be in the "shadow of the signal". In other words there is not enough downtilt for you to get a signal that close to the tower.

Whoa, I did not realize it was open for ordering. Time to visit the play store!

You should have said Insane Bolt. Usains evil twin.

I totally disagree. When you have a capital improvement plan you go forward with it no matter what. Why? Because the money is already spent. What we are seeing now is a glut of sights that were completed but waiting for approval. The timing is just coincidental. Clear may have been a different situation. I suspect the towers were approved and ready to go and they waited until after the merger to flip the switch. In either case work did not stop.

Yeah. I missed that. The west side of the financial district has no covergae and there are several small pockets through out Manhattan. What is puzziling though is that there are several pockets in both the Bronx and Brooklyn with brooklyn having some sizable gaps in coverage but they are still launching those two boroughs but not Manhattan.

I was looking at sensoeley the other day and NYC LOOKS about 90% covered not counting Staten Island(forgot to look). Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn are covered. Brooklyn seems to have a hole down by seagate and IIRC downtown brooklyn is spotty. Queens has holes out on the Rockaway penisnula and the extreme eastern porton of the borough. In comparison to other markets that they have "launched" I dont see why they cant announce all of NYC or atleast four out of five boroughs.

Yup. I saw that. Disgusting but apparently legal. it seems that Goldman and others have been manipulating the commodities market for awhile now.

There is some speculation that the auto industry may increase its use of aluminum to reduce the weight of vehicles and assist in fuel economy targets. In my mind it increases the opportunity to make or lose money. Taken together I think a small investment would be my best bet right now.

Yeah, that is always a concern. I got interested after reading a couple of reports pointing to an increased domestic demand and China becoming less of a factor internationally.

About to start researching aluminum, specifically Alcoa. Does any body own Alcoa or have any thoughts?

My speedtest almost always show that I am getting the advertised speed. I assumed that cleared the ISP as the issue.

Linksys/Cisco

I agree but perception is everything and the average customer percives the "slow NV rollout as the same old Sprint. Take a gander at Pocketables/good and evo as an example.

I disagree 100%. In my opinion Softbank willnot allow Sprint to furthur damage its image. In other words they will tightly control their growth until they are comfortable with the quality of the network. Thats when we will see better plans with more competitive pricing. I think Son is planning on confronting T-Mobile with value and AT&T/Verizon with network quality. This is not a stretch. Sprint compares favorably with T-mobile and AT&T with the exception of network speed. Verizons ability to absorb more customers is questionable at this point. Alot depends on what spectrum they aquire and how they deploy it. Bottom line fix the speeds and prices and Sprint will be succesful.

I have a sneaky suspicion that currently Sprint does not want any new customers or wants to tightly manage its growth.

Lets see: I have power cycled the router and modem. I use speedtest.net for my speed test. The problem persists across three computers, desktop, windows 7, laptop windows vista and a chromebook I will check to make sure the firmware is up to date and I will also try connecting directly to the router to see what happens then. Thanks for the suggestions!

Stranger things have moved the market.

My guess is that the excitement over the mergers is wearing off. People likely bought additional Sprint shares in anticipation of the merger which inflated the price and now they are taking their profits. It may also be the market responding to the other carriers new upgrade plans and Sprints apparent lack of a response. The financial fundamentals from last week have not changed.

Are you sure investing is for you? reading your post is giving me a flash back to King of Queens when Doug almost lost his mind because his stock price fell.

So, I'm thinking that my router is going bad. Here are my issues: 1) My internet connection seems sluggish even though the speedtest come back with my usual 4/mbps. Just to make sure it was not my computer I timed a 1300 mb download on my PS3. It took one hour with no other load on my connection. 2) I have noticed that sometimes the router allows certain devices to become bandwidth whores while bringing other devices to a standstill. Does this sound like a router issue to you guys?

If anybody is a beginner or does not have a bunch pf money then sharebuilder.com my be a good place to start. Also, any of the financial magazines are great sources of investing education.

Chances are Sprint wont tank. It will probably have a roller coaster for the next year or so but I personally don't expect the price to go beyond +/- 2 dollars. It is entirely possible that we can see a stock price of $20 in about two -three years. My advice, don't try to short the stock. Buy it for the long haul.

ConocoPhillips is doing an IPO on a new unit next week. Ticker PSXP.

At first I thought it said paddle paddle paddle! I need help.

Hmmmm. I'm going to have to give them a look. Dont they have plans to make some mobile(cell phone) chips?