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Lwiddis wrote: Not correct, thomasmnile. The California Public Utilities Commission regulates traditional wireline telecommunications facilities and services in California and is also the state video franchising authority in California. Your state, OP’s state may or may not. Regulation of Cable/Satellite Providers Reread the OP's post. Appears they are referring to their part time residence in Florida. Ultimate regulation of the provider is FCC. In Florida locally, it's the city or county government, and all they do is negotiate franchise agreements which these cable providers or their predecessors (since they have changed hands many times over the year and absorbed by Big Cable). I can tell you from experience ranting to the franchise grantors is a fundamental waste of time. Gotta keep the franchise fees and taxes (state and local) coming. State PSC here does electric utilities (private, not municipally owned), legacy wireline phone companies (who has that?) gas utilites, and pipeline transmission companies. No state oversight that I'm aware of in 5 decades living here.795Views0likes0CommentsRe: TV and Internet
Cable providers are regulated by the FCC, not locally. OP: Are you 100% fiber from the street, into your community and to your home? The blinding download speeds advertised by providers are at the ethernet ports on the modem (if so equipped). The WiFi speeds are maybe half or so the 'wired' speed on a good day, and are dependent on how many devices are active within your home. What speeds comes through the wire to the modem are also traffic volume dependent. By way of example, we have Spectrum, who now touts download speeds "up to" 300 mbps. Haven't seen it yet, we've had 200 mbps service before the upgrade to 300, never saw better than 180-ish at an ethernet port on the router (checked once by a Spectrum tech). Our WiFi speeds (equipment is a Spectrum owned Modem/Router combo) are typically 112-150 mbps down, 8-12 mbps up. WiFi can indeed be glitchy, ours is frequently. However, Spectrum's marketing and disclaimers cover their butts quite thoroughly and the CSR's in their call centers are quick to recite them when you have an Internet problem and they remotely peer into your home setup and pronounce all is well. With Spectrum, their service (in many but not areas) is fiber to the street, coax into our apartment complex, and RG-59 coax (so last century, the complex is nearly 40 years old) into the individual apartments. Better than dialup, but the technology within the buildings will never allow for the full benefit of fiber technology.440Views0likes0CommentsRe: The impact of Ian...
Some of the collateral effects of old Ian and the biblical rainfall he visited on much of Central Florida: Failure of a number of water and sewage infrastructure facilities around the area. The City of Orlando has a restrict water usage order in effect, meaning they pretty much don't want you putting any water down any drain that connects to the sewer system. A 36" sewage force main transporting wastewater from 3 pump stations around the city failed catastrophically early Sunday morning. We experienced an 8" water main and 30" stormwater drain failure directly in front of our apartment Friday night, complete with a car that drove into the hole because the lighting is so dim he couldn't tell what was in front of him; no water geyser. Given that Florida is fundamentally atop a limestone "sponge" and the subsurface soils are currently like oatmeal (especially the interior), I fear as the groundwater table lowers and things dry out, there's gonna be a whole lot of sinkholes going on.....and more water/sewer/stormwater/ natural gas line failures; or simply the earth moving under our feet.1.2KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Space Storms Destroy Elon Musk's Starlink Satellites
pianotuna wrote: NamMedevac 70 wrote: Space Storms Destroy Elon Musk's Starlink Satellites, and the Problem Is About to Get Worse https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/space-storms-destroy-elon-musk-s-starlink-satellites-and-the-problem-is-about-to-get-worse/ar-AA1203BY?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=21ef2bffd98b4d119b2f195581366a8c Above article from Entrepreneurial magazine news. Found on Bing news page. Hopefully Musk can solve this problem but how. No control over Sun flares. Old news. ^^^ This. It's strange this suddenly became a hot news item. The destruction of the satellites was disclosed by SpaceX less than a month after the launch in early February '22..... and was reported in several media outlets like CNBC, Space.com and ArsTechnica as I recall. If nothing else, demonstrates how lazy the mass media is. I'm curious to see how well Starlink at Sea will perform for Royal Caribbean since they announced their entire fleet will be outfitted with Starlink by the first quarter of 2023, replacing their current satellite vendor. Got a couple of cruises booked with them in the coming months to the Caribbean. We shall see..........375Views0likes0CommentsRe: The Future of Pricing
dedmiston wrote: "In the long run, we are all dead." ~ John Maynard Keynes No truer words spoken........ For perspective RE: OP's concern. Bought a Jayco WhiteHawk 10 years ago, the particular floorplan was $25K OTD price in 2012. The current floorplan, though a different designation (still a couples' trailer) has ballooned in both size (a little) and price (a lot!). I looked a year ago for fun, $48K "MSRP". We are not going back from whence we came........and an RV will still depreciate at breakneck speed.498Views0likes0CommentsRe: Our trip from BC to Quebec city in our Tesla/T@B combo. Pics
Beautiful photos, looks like a great trip and thank God that is a Canada Goose statue. Can you imagine the pile of............otherwise :) Nice setup as well. Think the NASCAR expression is you're riding high, wide and handsome. No mechanical issues with the X, drive unit or otherwise?923Views0likes0CommentsRe: Temp Reg. Question Buying from out of state in California
Current California DMV Temporary Registration info Believe this is what you're looking for Chill. Note the temporary trip registration has no relationship to California Use & Sales taxes. Another can of worms........... Only thing to add is you will likely need a DMV office appointment to take care of everything. I did 14 years ago and that was before Covid was invented.1.5KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Temp Reg. Question Buying from out of state in California
ferndaleflyer wrote: I have had to drive one home without tags several times. You would think as often as this situation happens states would address it in some way. California did in my situation...... and how! :B Forward thinking folks, guess they wanted to make sure I didn't get popped for no tag on my trip home. :p1.5KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Temp Reg. Question Buying from out of state in California
My experience with a private purchase of a fifth wheel in California (Oct 2008): Drove to suburban San Diego to complete the purchase and bring the trailer back to Florida. The owner accompanied me to the Poway DMV office to complete the sale(he kept his tag as he had a new trailer on order). We did the requisite sale paperwork and I asked the DMV clerk about temporary tag. Was told there is no such thing and when all was said and done, paid $2500 for "use tax", title application, registration and California tag. When I returned to Florida to apply for Florida registration and title, I was refunded the difference between Florida sales tax I would have paid and the California "use tax" I was charged. And the $230 registration/tag from California was replace with a $56 Florida tag/registration.146Views0likes0CommentsRe: SpaceX's Starlink internet authorized for RVs
unbob wrote: ... the Federal Communications Commission has authorized the company's plan to expand broadband offerings to vehicles in motion. Comments are worth reading! SpaceX's Starlink internet authorized for boats, planes and RVs Recently read a Royal Caribbean ship (Freedom of the Seas) was outfitted with 12 Starlink receivers/antennae as a test. Apparently, a considerable improvement over current shipboard Internet.....273Views0likes0Comments
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