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Re: Need internet advice
Bill.Satellite wrote: The OP is wrong about how satellite / phone hybrid systems work. The upload (data leaving your computer) is done by phone line and the download is via satellite. I am pretty sure that Hughes Gen4 or Excede are available in AK and if so, they use satellite for both the upload and download and the speeds are pretty good these days. Very affordable, just not movable (OK,they can be moved but not easily). You actually might be right about that, my brain is not in the right head space for remembering stuff from college lol. Let me go look it up real fast and double check my head facts. yup, got my wires cross. Satellite for download, telephone line for upload. Thanks for the catch and sorry about that lol Also, Excede are the ones that denied me based on credit.822Views0likes0CommentsRe: Need internet advice
trb46 wrote: Are there any public libraries or other hotspots where you could do some of your office work, using their free wifi? Unfortunately that's not an option, I work 8 hour days and I'm pretty sure the library would frown on me bringing my desktop into the library lol. DSL doesn't use or require a dish of any kind. It runs over telephone lines. What is the Park's ISP? They would be the best bet to talk to about getting a dedicated service for your use. If the service requires a wired connection and the park won't let you pay to have a line run to your rig, maybe it's time to find other accommodations. They use MTA, they quoted another RVer here 1000 dollars for installation since they'd have to trench a line all the way to his RV. Also the DSL up here does use a satellite dish, cooped with a large antenna. The logistics of it would cause me to write a report about 20 pages long. Classic normal DSL would use a telephone line, cooped with a satellite dish. The common misconception is that the dish downloads and the line uploads or some such. In actuality, it's the line that downloads and the dish that uploads. Back in the early 90's, internet was starting to boom and people were needing more and more bandwidth to satiate there needs for consumption. Telephone companies already had all of these lines ran to all of these houses thanks to Title II utilities. In fact, to do everything they did for telephone, they severely over compensated there needs and only used about 1/8th of there line for telephone communications. Thus high speed internet was born, by lighting up the remaining line JUST for data transfer. This has been your daily dose of trivia brought to you by someone who actually learned one useless fact from college lol. pianotuna wrote: Hi Verizon has a 50 gig plan for $300. If 3g would be fast enough there are resellers charging $15 per month for unlimited access. Check AT&T supposedly they offer service and they do have an unlimited plan (or so I'm told). That's slightly outside of my price range currently, since I still have to pay to stay here in the RV park. Thanks for the suggestion though :)823Views0likes0CommentsRe: Need internet advice
Vulcan Rider wrote: TheStuntman wrote: I did finally get a rep to agree to send out an installer to mount a dish ON the RV but then my credit check was denied. Some problems are not solvable.........at least not in a legal fashion. Only thought I have is: The SAT dishes don't have to be permanently mounted to anything. A portable RV dish might work for you.....although the reliability might be a bit of a problem with a strong wind. I'd do something like that, but when they did a credit check I came back as denied. Only thing I MIGHT be able to do is ask my father in law to give me a hand and just put it in his name. That COULD be an option. The internet company we would be using does 30GB of data, then it down grades to 2mbps down. Which would be just find for me to work. But I'd actually have to get the guy to answer me lol.393Views0likes0CommentsRe: windows 10 slow
AsheGuy wrote: TheStuntman wrote: Windows 8.1 and 10 were an attempt to try and merge mobile operating systems and pc operating systems into a nice, and pleasing interface that you could use on both with minimal reprogramming. On face value, it seems to work pretty well. As you get a little deeper into the OS though you start seeing some major flaws and really weird behavior for a windows OS. I agree with you as this being the source of the problem. However, I have had no problem with Windows 10 to on the systems I have installed it on. I still do consulting to help people with PC problems and, like you, often deal with McAfee Antivirus pre-installed on many PCs. But I have not experienced a problem with McAfee because I always remove it. I eliminate the downside of dealing with the tablet/smartphone interface on a non-touch screen device by using Classic Shell or StartIsBack to bring it back to a Windows 7 user interface. And I use Windows as an operating system and don't use any MS aps. I prefer Google apps and all is well with Windows 10. For those that prefer MS immersion, your experience may vary. I'm dealing with the brand new out of the box PC's and usually set them up for customers remotely. Depending on what package they buy, we install mcafee as a virus solution. So we tend to see some really weird behavior alot of times. I think what it comes down to is what your using Windows 10 for. It's going to do certain tasks just beautifully, and others not so much. The constant report I get a lot is, "Windows 10 boots up so fast!!!11". Well yeah, theirs kind of a reason for that. Your not properly shutting it down. Your just using the built in shut down which is kind of a weird sleep/hibernation/shut down mode. It's not a completely and true shut down like people think of shut downs. So when you turn it back on, it doesn't have to load up a lot of the things it normally does on first boot. Windows 10 and 7 on fresh installs on the same spec machines, have about the same boot times. I think Windows 10 has a second or two at most on windows 7 just because of some of the optimizations. But then it's not loading up alot of services as a result, which means slower boot times on initial applications/programs. Not incredibly noticeable when you get used to it though.439Views0likes0CommentsRe: Need internet advice
So I'm going to try and respond to everyones questions the best I can here. It's Alaska and I'm just waking up and moving around, (got cold last night so didn't sleep to extremely well). I make somewhere around $420/week, don't know if that was a typo on my part or not, I was pretty tired last night. The RV park will not allow us to install a DSL connection utilizing a ground mounted dish. I did finally get a rep to agree to send out an installer to mount a dish ON the RV but then my credit check was denied. MTA though an interesting choice, has some major datacap restrictions and is part of how I got screwed over. (I had MTA up in Eagle River and the room mates I had with me, I didn't know was all watching Netflix at the same time and ran up a 2 thousand dollar bill before I even knew what was happening). I HAVE checked with maybe doing something like a hot spot. From what I've been able to tell so far, the only plans they really offer is like at most 7 GB every 2 months for data, for an insane price. Another long term RVer did look into running MTA to his RV. They quoted him over 1000 for installation since they'd have to run a completely new line, trench it and install it a specific way. SO I don't think getting a normalish type of internet service provider is an option here. @westernparkrvowner I'm not particularly blaming the park owners here, but I know they're using domestic routers and the park is pretty dead atm. They have something like 5 RVs in total in the lost this winter and some of them will be leaving in the next couple of weeks. I realize though it's not there fault I can't work, they're not expected to provide to me the best internet service publicly available lol. In response to the business internet, I HAD looked into getting business internet when I was in Eagle River. I don't quite qualify for it since according to them, I'd need a business licence to qualify. I fall into a grey area of the market. Technically speaking I"m a private contractor for the company I work for. I get Tmobile and Verizon here as well as several other services in the area, so cell phone wouldn't be a bad idea, but I just worry about the costs versus data caps. Alaska is beginning to be notorious for there data caps, every internet service provider up here has them but one major one. The 2 GB a day that I came up with for bandwidth is me doing the absolutely minimum, just work, that's it. in reality I can rank up to 3 or even 4 some days depending on the work I'm doing. Thankyou EVERYONE for all of the posts and helpful suggestions so far, hopefully I've helped answer some peoples questions.393Views0likes0CommentsNeed internet advice
I'm a relatively new RVer and was kind of forced into the situation. I won't bore anyone with any of the insane year long details that have lead up to this point; let's just say through some miscalculations I was screwed by someone I had trusted. Me and my family (wife and 2 kids). Are currently living in an RV over in Palmer, Alaska in an RV park. My main job is actually from home, I don't make a whole lot of money per month; $10.50/hr. But it allows me to be close to my family, saves on gas and allows us to have some freedom to do things with the kiddos more often. The problem I'm having currently though is internet. As many long time RVers know, the internet at most RV parks is absolutely abysmal. If they aren't using domestic routers, they're using domestic wifi extenders and sufficiently poor internet plans. It's just something as an RVer I guess we've come to some what expect and just hope eventually they'll get a clue to start upgrading. Because I work from home I use about 2GB of data a day at minimum, talking on the phone, video conferencing, downloading various files for inspection and uploading data to servers. I for the life of me, just can't seem to find a reliable way to get internet to this little RV. I'm at a loss, I've spent weeks on this problem and it's starting to look like I may have to give up the job I've held for 3+ years and love. Just because of internet. Can ANYONE out there offer any advice on anything I can do for internet out here that's at least going to give me 2mbps download (so I can work). For a reasonable price? The cheapest thing I could find would end up costing me $700/mo at minimum for the amount of data I use. It's just insane we still have data caps in 2015.4.4KViews0likes33CommentsRe: windows 10 slow
4X4Dodger wrote: Windows 10 is much faster at almost everything even over 8.1 Those who tell you to clean your system are correct. Clean out everything including Temp files all Cache files etc. Clean your disc. This really should have been done before the Win10 install. You can revert back to 8.1 within one month of getting win10 if you really need to. To make sure that I got a smooth install I called the win10 help desk chat and a very very smart guy and I went through the process together. You might want to try that. The luddites who are clinging to win 7 like a broken life raft on a storm tossed sea will eventually have to upgrade. Everything will be written for Win10 from here on in. I don't know if I agree with you or not. I work on windows 10/8.1/7/Vista/XP computers 5 days out of the week and been doing it for quite some time now. Most of my co-workers and I agree. Windows 8.1 and 10 are some of the worst operating systems since windows vista. The general consensus is, "at least it's not worse then vista" which isn't saying much. Windows 8.1 and 10 were an attempt to try and merge mobile operating systems and pc operating systems into a nice, and pleasing interface that you could use on both with minimal reprogramming. On face value, it seems to work pretty well. As you get a little deeper into the OS though you start seeing some major flaws and really weird behavior for a windows OS. That's because in the attempt to merge the 2 OS's (mobile and pc). They had to design the operating system to react in ways similar if not on par with the way a mobile OS works. This causes some really strange behavior with PC's that can in some cases, down right lock them up. By far the worst comes in compatibility with programs. Things that work perfectly fine on other versions of Windows will sometimes lockup, fail to perform well or downright crash. McAfee being a perfect example of this during early day adoption of windows 10, (the only reason I offer it as an example, is because I deal with it on nearly every PC). We have consistent issues even now getting the darn thing to even run, especially when it comes to updating. This pretty much comes down to how the architecture is actually built; which I've mentioned before, to mimic a mobile OS. To be honest, a lot of developers, programmers and techs haven't been to terribly impressed with either 8.1 or 10 and I don't see "everyone developing for it" either. Especially since windows 10 is getting more and more bad press with there trying to force people onto it. I have a feeling most if they can/know what they're doing. Will just stay with Windows 7, at least for the foreseeable future. (I mean have you SEEN the download for getting rid of the windows 10 upgrade prompt? It's one of the largest downloaded objects we've seen in a long time, it rivals Minecraft for gods sake lol)440Views0likes0Comments
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