yes, denninger, although i believe he lives further north in the state
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Rick Knoble rickkno...@hotmail.com wrote:
On Aug 27, 2013, at 11:16 PM, Gary Hurst jabbahur...@gmail.com wrote:
holy crap! he is one of my facebook friends!
Who? Karl Denninger? He
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 20:59:34 -0700
From: Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net
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On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 15:18:24 -0400 Gary Hurst jabbahur...@gmail.com
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i see no reason at all for anyone to have a toll free number today. the
only purpose it could serve is to let you make a free call from a pay
phone. are there even pay phones anymore??
I find toll free numbers very
On Aug 27, 2013 7:26 AM, Craig diese...@pisquared.net wrote:
I find toll free numbers very helpful. I can make a free call from my
home land line.
Ditto. Not everyone uses their cell phone for everything--at home I don't
get very good reception, so I use the land line.
Alex
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On Aug 27, 2013 7:26 AM, Craig diese...@pisquared.net wrote:
I find toll free numbers very helpful. I can make a free call from my
home land line.
Ditto. Not everyone uses their cell phone for everything--at home I don't
get very good reception, so I use the land
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 07:58:17 -0700 (PDT) Richard Hattaway
rhatta...@rocketmail.com wrote:
I guess I live under a rock. What phone company does not supply free
long distance service to home phones now??
I never heard of that offer. Which phone companies do offer that?
I have CenturyLink (was
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I guess I live under a rock.? What phone company does not supply free long
distance service to home phones now
are you saying you have a land line like old school copper wire ATT
exchange like 100 year ago or just that you have some sort of home phone?
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Alex Chamberlain
apchamberl...@gmail.comwrote:
On Aug 27, 2013 7:26 AM, Craig diese...@pisquared.net wrote:
I
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On Aug 27, 2013 7:26 AM, Craig diese...@pisquared.net wrote:
I find toll free numbers very helpful. I
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:38:19 -0400 Gary Hurst jabbahur...@gmail.com
wrote:
are you saying you have a land line like old school copper wire ATT
exchange like 100 year ago or just that you have some sort of home
phone?
land line == copper wire from a central office to the house; it comes
yeah, didn't know that still existed. people have home phones but it's
usually some kind of deal from the cable company or vonage or something
like that (even magicjack!). most i know have just dumped the home phone
entirely, as i did 15 years ago. i just use skype now. skype was/is
selling
Also know in the industry as POTS.
Plain Old Telephone System
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On Aug 27, 2013, at 12:45 PM, Craig diese...@pisquared.net wrote:
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:38:19 -0400 Gary Hurst jabbahur...@gmail.com
wrote:
are you saying you have a land line like old school copper wire
do you personally know actual people still using the POTS, dan? any idea
how many still exist?
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com wrote:
Also know in the industry as POTS.
Plain Old Telephone System
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On Aug 27, 2013, at 12:45 PM, Craig
On Aug 27, 2013 9:45 AM, Craig diese...@pisquared.net wrote:
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:38:19 -0400 Gary Hurst jabbahur...@gmail.com
wrote:
are you saying you have a land line like old school copper wire ATT
exchange like 100 year ago or just that you have some sort of home
phone?
land
i've always lived in very major urban areas so this is all foreign to me.
you haven no access to high speed internet? does this mean you are on
dialup too?
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Alex Chamberlain
apchamberl...@gmail.comwrote:
On Aug 27, 2013 9:45 AM, Craig diese...@pisquared.net
On Aug 27, 2013 10:08 AM, Gary Hurst jabbahur...@gmail.com wrote:
i've always lived in very major urban areas so this is all foreign to me.
you haven no access to high speed internet? does this mean you are on
dialup too?
I have 3 Mbps DSL. It's fast enough for Google or Skype voice-only
the lesson here is not to fall prey to the idea that things are universally
one way just because they are that way for you
a violin maker had a shop in my old neighborhood in georiga. if that's
where you grew up and always lived, it would easy to think that violin
makers were everywhere
wasn't
Gary,
Let's see about those kids and pads/phones. They get on blogs and fame each
other as they've lost communication/conversation skills. And then let's look at
service outages. I live in a valley so my cell is not a home use phone. I have
cable which goes out sometimes with bad lightning
Ethernet can be transmitted over power distribution, but only within an area
defined by that distribution system. When it hits something like a transformer
the signal won't get through, so you're stuck with working within a part of the
system only.
That's why the Ethernet over power works in
oh, man, if you live in monroe, you are just one town past atlanta
suburbs. hang on there as 80 meg fibre is probably just a few miles away!
i lived in snellville, 2 towns over (unless you count between as a town,
which it isn't, but it's just between) and i was on fibre years ago.
i'm sure old
Gary wrote:
wasn't there some plan to transmit internet along the electricity
wires?
A dreadful idea, especially with regard to radio noise.
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I live way out in the country. The only option was a wireless radio network
service, sat, or dialup. I had the first one for many years only ran 1mb. Then
the trees grew up and signal dropped. Switched to exceed abuut a year ago, runs
12mb but I often beat that sometimes by quite a bit. Problem
So I could run a network over the power lines in my house instead of having to
run cat5?
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On Aug 27, 2013, at 1:15 PM, Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com wrote:
Ethernet can be transmitted over power distribution, but only within an area
defined by that distribution system. When
Absolutely.
Most of my house is wired with CAT6 but the back portion doesn't have enough
clearance in the attic for me to get to the interior walls. My oldest son likes
to game online and often bitched about his wireless connection, despite being
about 10 feet away from one of the access
i still like to be plugged right into the router
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com wrote:
Absolutely.
Most of my house is wired with CAT6 but the back portion doesn't have
enough clearance in the attic for me to get to the interior walls. My
oldest son likes to
Well now that I have uverse been watching some Netflix steaming and the DVD
player with Netflix is always dropping the wifi connection and random and
having to buffer a lot, other times it works fine. I have the uverse router
upstairs but I do no routing thru it, I have my net gear n router
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:19:43 -0400 Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com wrote:
On Aug 27, 2013, at 3:13 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net
wrote:
So I could run a network over the power lines in my house instead of
having to run cat5?
Absolutely.
Most of my house is wired with CAT6 but
Alex Chamberlain wrote:
On Aug 27, 2013 7:26 AM, Craig diese...@pisquared.net wrote:
I find toll free numbers very helpful. I can make a free call from my
home land line.
Ditto. Not everyone uses their cell phone for everything--at home I don't
get very good reception, so I use the land
Craig wrote:
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 07:58:17 -0700 (PDT) Richard Hattaway
rhatta...@rocketmail.com wrote:
I guess I live under a rock. What phone company does not supply free
long distance service to home phones now??
I never heard of that offer. Which phone companies do offer that?
I have
Fmiser wrote:
Gary wrote:
wasn't there some plan to transmit internet along the electricity
wires?
A dreadful idea, especially with regard to radio noise.
Allegedly it wipes out GPS, and that's keeping it from implementation.
Mitch.
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do you personally know actual people still using the POTS, dan? any idea
how many still exist?
There's a digital switch 1/2 mile from me, I think it's about a year old.
ATT's web site would sell me either UVERSE phone (overpriced VOIP) or POTS, only
TV offerings were from
Plain Old Telephone SERVICE
I have it, to get my DSL out here on the fringe of America. I know
there is a TV/Net cable running down the road right out in front of my
driveway but the local monopoly, whatever it is today, says I can't get it.
--R
On 8/27/13 1:00 PM, Gary Hurst wrote:
do
Kaleb wrote:
So I could run a network over the power lines in my house instead
of having to run cat5?
Yes - but you spend money on the equipment - and being electronics
it has a much higher failure rate than copper wire.
So - save time and effort (over power) or money (CATx cable). You
Same here in the West Central Florida backwoods. DSL runs Youtube okay
except during peak hours when speed gets down to 700K. Would probably have
ditched the telephone service but for the I'vefallenandIcan'tgetup service
daughter wants me to have with a company that wants a copper wire
'city' is not so
bad ??
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To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] parts site?
Kaleb wrote:
So I could run a network over the power lines in my house instead
of having to run cat5
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So I could run a network over the power lines in my house instead of having
to run cat5?
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On Aug 27, 2013, at 1:15 PM, Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com wrote:
Ethernet can be transmitted over power distribution, but only within an
area
Me, for one.
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do you personally know actual people still using the POTS, dan? any idea
So does it run faster, slower, or the same as cat5?
On 8/27/2013 2:28 PM, Craig wrote:
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:19:43 -0400 Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com wrote:
On Aug 27, 2013, at 3:13 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net
wrote:
So I could run a network over the power lines in my house
Yup, basicaly it's turning the grid into a giant antenna system,
broadcasting ipcs of naked ladies across the universe.
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Fmiser fmi...@gmail.com wrote:
Gary wrote:
wasn't there some plan to transmit internet along the electricity
wires?
A dreadful idea,
do you personally know actual people still using the POTS, dan?
We use POTS. Far more reliable and better audio quality
than cell, or VOIP here.
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On Aug 27, 2013, at 10:59 PM, Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net wrote:
do you personally know actual people still using the POTS, dan?
We use POTS. Far more reliable and better audio quality
than cell, or VOIP here.
Ditto.
Cell phones are convenient, but the call quality just isn't as
holy crap! he is one of my facebook friends!
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Rick Knoble rickkno...@hotmail.comwrote:
On Aug 27, 2013, at 10:59 PM, Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net wrote:
do you personally know actual people still using the POTS, dan?
We use POTS. Far more reliable
On Aug 27, 2013, at 11:16 PM, Gary Hurst jabbahur...@gmail.com wrote:
holy crap! he is one of my facebook friends!
Who? Karl Denninger? He lives in South Florida, I believe. Mitch Haley posted
something from him years ago and I've been reading his blog ever since. Hat tip
to Mitch.
With so many apps for free calling it seems harder to manage. Someone
calling on Skype? Google Voice? Your business phone? Cell phone? Text,
WhatsApp, etc.
Not to mention some people are genuinely hard to hear on Skype or Google
Voice. They will sit away from their computer's microphone
i see no reason at all for anyone to have a toll free number today. the
only purpose it could serve is to let you make a free call from a pay
phone. are there even pay phones anymore??
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Brian Toscano brian.tosc...@gmail.comwrote:
With so many apps for free
GV does do texting. I can text from my phone or computer (via email).
Luther KB5QHUForest Park, IL
'98 ML320 Max (170,xxx mi)
On 8/26/2013 2:12 PM, Brian Toscano wrote:
And does GV even allow SMS mesages these days?
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Ya, but Skype is just another thing I'd have to install/run. Google
chat has voice, video, and text just like Skype. I already have Voice
running on my cell giving me a 2nd and local phone number for business use.
Luther KB5QHUForest Park, IL
'98 ML320 Max (170,xxx mi)
On 8/24/2013
did you see the pick of my bicycle?
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Benz Hogs benz-n-h...@gulseth.net wrote:
Ya, but Skype is just another thing I'd have to install/run. Google chat
has voice, video, and text just like Skype. I already have Voice running
on my cell giving me a 2nd and
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On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Gary Hurst jabbahur...@gmail.com wrote:
did you see the pick of my bicycle?
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Benz Hogs benz-n-h...@gulseth.netwrote:
Ya, but Skype is just another thing I'd have to install/run. Google chat
has voice, video, and
ya'll ever try Skype? It's free when calling skype to skype
LarryT
On 8/23/2013 11:41 PM, Benz Hogs wrote:
How bout G-chat?
Luther KB5QHUForest Park, IL
'98 ML320 Max (169,xxx mi)
On 8/23/2013 10:28 PM, Gary Hurst wrote:
email is best, especially if you are not inclined to leave
yes, i am on skype. jabbahursty.
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Larry T l02tur...@comcast.net wrote:
ya'll ever try Skype? It's free when calling skype to skype
LarryT
On 8/23/2013 11:41 PM, Benz Hogs wrote:
How bout G-chat?
Luther KB5QHUForest Park, IL
'98 ML320 Max
What is the website for Jabba?
Thanks,
Mike
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What is the website for Jabba?
Thanks,
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email is best, especially if you are not inclined to leave message when you
call.
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.netwrote:
Www.buyeuroparts.com, best to call or email him
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On Aug 23, 2013, at 6:47 PM, Michael Esh michael...@mac.com
How bout G-chat?
Luther KB5QHUForest Park, IL
'98 ML320 Max (169,xxx mi)
On 8/23/2013 10:28 PM, Gary Hurst wrote:
email is best, especially if you are not inclined to leave message when you
call.
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.netwrote:
i'm always being google chatted. really, i'm in facebook and gmail all
day. i'm on skype almost all the time as well but never on AIM anymore
unless i need to contact someone who i only know how to reach via AIM
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