Last year we were getting 28mbps Using Comcast internet, with an upload of 2.5 mbps. Some crummy local AT&T sub-contractor TM Construction or something like that, cut our live and refused to care. So I patched the line with a splice. I think it was a holiday 3 day weekend. SO I had to do it myself. We still got 28 mbps down and 2.5 up. Our internet was fine. A couple months later, TM construction came back out and wouldn’t you know it, they cut our line again. So this time we had Comcast come back out and replace the whole line with this heavy duty orange cable. Our internet was peaking at 30mbps. We held out for a few months.
But here recently our internet speeds have drop tragically. We are now getting 3 mbps down and oddly enough our upload speeds increased to 3.5 mbps down.
I was told a couple months ago that the speeds are supposed to increase to 50mbps near Humble area.
I can only assume that right now they are upgrading the cables or whatever and right now there is a crummier connection.
How is your internet speeds in the Spring and Humble areas? What is your bandwidth in this area?
Category: communication
Things to think about – AT&T Acquisition of T-Mobile
Well we all know by now that AT&T Bought T-Mobile .
Me being a T-mobile user,I have a few questions for the AT&T users.
Do AT&T users expect their internet speeds to increase now that they have T-Mobile hardware providing their services ?
Do AT&T users expect AT&T to scrap all of T-Mobile’s existing Cell phone tech, like towers, phones and such ?
Do any of the AT&T users look forward to any of the T-Mobile phones making it their way?
I know that if AT&T keeps T-Mobile towers and equipment (since both companies use similar technology) , then I am looking at a pretty strong signal in my area. I know that I have 3 bars when my signal is really really bad. and that is very rare. That would lead to a decent signal in the areas that I sometimes have only three bars. Of course that’s if AT&T is strong in that area.
See this is good compared to the purchase of Primeco back in the late nineties in Houston area. I think they still exist elsewhere. AT&T being GSM and Primeco being CDMA, meant we all had to hand in our phones for scrapping. Primeco ran a big sale so I signed a contract with them and spent $139 on a phone that I got at a discount. The best phone signal I have ever had yet to- date. Back when no one had a signal at Fry’s Electronics store, I had signal. When the power was out for 4 days, and all cell towers were down, no one had a signal but me and the three other people in the area that had Primeco.not AT&T not T-Mobile, Not Sprint, Not Verizon. best thing was, that phone was one of the first cell phones to come out with no antenna. I had that dang phone for 2 months when AT&T sent me a notice saying they would give me a new phone to replace my existing CDMA phone. I was excited that the email said I would receive a fair value phone. I did not. I got the $29 Nokia phone that was the size of my shoe. The replacement phone would not fit in my pocket. I had to wear a case with belt loop strap on it to carry that dang thing. I had an excellent signal, until I left the drive way of the AT&T store. I extended the big metal antenna. No help. Wrapped it in aluminum foil, no help. I called the store to see what they could, they suggested I move to another company if I didn’t like the signal, then they assured me they had the strongest signal with the most coverage. So I called the help number. Same thing. They actually told me to try another service if I was unhappy. So a few weeks later i called to cancel my number, they told me they just increased the signal in my area nd if I hang on a bit longer the new tower would be complete and my signal would be even stronger. So i waited almost 3 months. Nothing. I actually had to walk out to the end of the street and extend the antenna out towards downtown Houston to see if I could get a stronger signal while on the complaint line.
After fighting months with AT&T about not having a signal anywhere, I canceled my service and moved on to Voice Stream. Who…… not even a year later got taken over by T-Mobile. Yeah I was mad. but. Voice Stream signal was bad where I was. Well it was ok. It was as bad as AT&T, but the people working there and the help desk was a whole lot more helpful during the switch over. Also the signal got better. and again, I got a new phone. No better than the one I just bought with voice stream, but it was a new phone. Again it was a Nokia.
Now here it is 2011, T-Mobile sold to AT&T. Full freaking circle. I am looking at going back to AT&T again. Because they bought T-mobile.
I am hoping that AT&T does not destroy the existing T-mobile Technology, I hope they implement the towers and the internet service that is currently available with T-Mobile. So that T-mobile users gain AT&T service along with existing service, and AT&T users gain Tmobile Services and signal and internet speed. I can’t imagine all of us using internet service that AT&T provides.
AT&T users, what do you think of the existing service ?
T-Mobile users what do you expect of the impending service?
Still using an HTC G1 Phone
Still using my htc g1. Been a great phone. Onboard memory storage sucks and battery life sucks, but the operating system works great and beat my other phones. Makes my moto and my blackberry look like calculators. The display is large and the keyboard is great for my thumbs.
Will be getting a new droid phone by december 2011, unsure wich one yet though.
How is the g2??? Anyone know?
What android phone is a good step up from the g1?
Posted via Android. Dont mind the typos. I’ll fix them later.
Has Social Media Innovation Stopped?
Has the innovative race of creating the next useful social website come to a stop? why? and how long?
The last known Social site that has made an impact is over 4 years old. So there is no social site that has been invented or created, no idea has come to anyone’s creation table since 06. There have been evolutions and “reinventions” of websites, but nothing that can 100% be called creative or new. We have seen Social websites pop up that are clones of or hybrids of other websites, but that isn’t quite creation or new.
Twitter and Jaiku. That’s it. Jaiku is older than twitter. So Twitter it’s self is in theory a rip off of Jaiku. Before that was Joost. Joost of course came out with a messenger when it was first created. You would install Joost so you can watch movies on your computer, but there was also a movie voting system, along with the movie voting system there was also a messenger/chat system. So you could talk to other Joost users who are watching the same movie or tv show as what you are watching.
Today there is one. Only one social network out there that everyone still uses. That social network is the one that all tech people were certain would flop. Facebook. Facebook of course is the website that really wants you to only add people to your friends that you already know. Now that isn’t very social. Is it? It’s more of an address book. Some modifications to Facebook have allowed you to add more features and add more friends, and add annoying nagging video games.
We did see Myspace fall recently. We just saw Myspace build it’s self over again. But no one came to see the new place. The few that looked hated Myspace. because well, Myspace was over bloated.
Chatrooms are completely gone. Forums are all trolled up and spam flooded. Unless someone reinvented the chatroom, that venue seems to be dead.
Revision 3 needs what techtv had. A Live show that people could interact with. like Chris pirillo’s show. Live.Pirillo.com . That would save Revision3. Especially if they did this with diggnation. Maybe once or twice a month
Is communication dying?
If anyone knows of a new social network that seems to be ground breaking or potentially ground breaking, tell people about it. Post it here. I would love to try this social network/ social media.
Warning!!! Facebook Dislike Button – Fake
This is sort ofr old news but I have some slow friends and I know you do to.
So when you run into one, send them a link to here.
and just to make it so you don’t look like a jerk for sendingthem here, smart people need this information!
There is a link to a “facebook dislike” both website and a button.
They are both fake and do not do what you want them to do.
Here is an old Mashable link that explains the situation better.
Facebook Dislike button is fake.
So if you do not wnat your account spamming something out that is below your taste, and making your om, granny, ex-boyfriend think something about you that you do not want them to think about you.
Don’t think there is a new “Dislike”
It’s not real unless posted on the front page of facebook..
It’s just as much a fake as the old myspace gimmick “see who is reading your page”.
So many people fell for that vanity scam.
Hands on with Iphone 4
I got my hands on the IPhone 4. After a week of arguing with the macfaqs at work about how Apple is not super man and the pope rolled into one and how the Iphone really does have a signal issue.
One of the co-workers brought an Iphone 4 in to the office and let me get a hands on.
IPhone 4 With camera on
The camera on it is amazing. (yeah I’m in the background gathering pictures with my G1).
Back Of IPhone 4
You can actually have a full on video chat with someone who has an IPhone 4 also.
Front Camera
The resolution is remarkable. The thing is nice and heavy feeling. Very sturdy. Somehow though it looks like the old nano and a Motorolla birthed an Apple. Video quality is up to 720p 29 fps recording.
screen area
- 3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen Multi-Touch display
- 960-by-640-pixel resolution at 326 ppi
- 800:1 contrast ratio (typical)
- 500 cd/m2 max brightness (typical)
512mb Ram 1GHz processor Really impressive. That could play GTA liberty City Stories easily.
Well that’s the best I can do with my limited time with the phone. The co-worker that brought that with him is now as we speak on a plane to somewhere on vacation. HTC needs to build more like that. or Motorolla needs to build more like that. Then again, just be motivated by that to make something better. So if I did not make it clear reception was fine. a room with 7 computers 6 of them running and reception was fine. No matter where I placed my fingers on that phone, the signal was good.
(((((1 video was removed)))))
I really appreciated the chance to check that thing out. It was the feeling of when you are holding a brand new hard drive that you know is fast and has tons of storage. It just felt sturdy very well built and nice and heavy.
I will not be buying one simply because AT&T has chased me away already with their bad signal in my area. Sure wish it was on Tmobile. Not much better but better.
Truth About Reverse phone Lookup
In short, They are not what they used to be.
At one time you pull up that phone number that keeps hanging up on you when they call. At one time you could have proof that (insert name here) has called you. At one time you could get deep directions to the crazy place your child just called you from telling you they are staying at a friend’s house. All for free.
But now they make it creepy and weird. They make it seem like you are doing some strange private detective junk and want to sell you the information at some stupid monthly price.
There are no more sites that do it for free for that one time you need it. They sell you with “well you might need it again”.
You know, there is another way around this issue. Call 1411. It’s cheaper. and you stand a 99.9999% chance they will not steal your credit card number.
Now days there are so many cell phone carriers out there and well, the law is different about listing cell phone numbers. Why? because cell phones cost per minute. It’s pretty crummy when a company calls your cell phone and tries to solicit you.
So head to information, or your yellow pages phone book or what ever directory you can find and locate your kid. If you have to , look at their 4square page or gowalla page or twitter or facebook. You will find the lil tard.
AT&T Hang Up To Download
I don’t get it. My G1 Seems to download and upload fine while on the phone. In fact some times I forget to turn of the Pandora Radio and Cherry player when the phone rings . lol
So what ever AT&T is talking about… They must be talking about another carrier other than T-mobile
Anyone else notice this ?
Android Must Have Apps
Now these picks are not by some internet standards or by any other influence other than me seeing extreme use in them.
Shop Savvy Bar-code scanner. Yeah the results have not been up to what I expected but hey, they do offer a chance to look at the products on amazon and see what other people’s reviews are of the items.
Zxing scanner. Not near as good as shop savvy, but is another scanner so I have two to pick through. Choices are wonderful.
Cherry Rplayer – you can manually insert radio stations you like – I of course have ZRock in mine, because well they only have an iphone app and well I want to hear Zrock Dang it!
Opera Mini– because it does some stuff that google browser will not, like play myspace games right off their site, without need of an ap.
Pandora Radio – I love the way it lets you pick a music type and just ride with it. (audio out to audio in on my car, excellent sound.)
Digital Clock from Socialmobile , it’s like my back up alarm clock (only use it while it’s on the charger though)
Twit.tv by Mediafly – all the Leo Laporte podcasts I can listen to.
Pretty much everything I have found, are just trials or do not live up to what they charge you, or just plain ol toys.
still waiting for Myspace Mobsters Android ap. Or a nice pdf viewer that costs no money and does not have trial period.. like foxit for Droid would be real nice. Mozilla Firefox for android would be nice. Hulu would be good.
Tv.com player would fricken rock if it had shows i like in full episodes. like Smallville Two and Half Men. but seems like everything that I like, is just 1 minutes snippets, really how much bandwidth could 300×200 really be ? They could soooo make some money from the ads, kinda like hulu does, if they would just do it . Youtube ap is great, but don’t hit pause, you freaking video fail every-time you do hit pause.
A-online radio has great features but it does not make the list. It just does not buffer very well. See Pandora radio isn’t as free roam as Aonline, but I can plug my G1 into my car stereo, turn on Pandora radio and let it play all the way from work to home. I plug in A-online and it plays for all of about 20 seconds. If it is not a buffer issue then the garbage shuts off every time the back light turns off. I know it’s one of the two and I can do nothing about either.
A very good write up on ZdNet called 10 Must Have- Android Apps
Online Dating Sites 09 Review
Actually, They are all scams and full of pervs, Piggies and F tards.
We have all come to know this over the past 16 years or so. In 09 one site popped up that seems to be full of rednecks and tardos. There are enough of them out there that the site actually gets plenty of traffic. So guys, gals, if you are hard up try that site. I will tell you the sites name in due time.
See there are cheap unscrupulous ways to advertise your domain. The method that i hate the most is where it is spammed out with completely unrelated topics to what the site has. see there was a site that sent out ” look how I got rich” links all over myspace and and all over facebook and in your email and every freaking place on the internet. The site did not have anything to do with getting rich, other than to say ” I placed advertisements on my social network and got millions of people on my site in one day, I am a millionaire”. The real people without sloping foreheads know darn well the guy who created that site probably had 50 legit users and maybe 300 fake accounts registered to one email address so he could maintain them all. People would click that “get rich quick ” link and find a “meet your love” website being referenced. we all know that society understands that people without money, are without love. or wanting out of the broke love they are in.So his scam worked. We all know that someone too stupid to see the scam would clearly be to stupid to to see what’s coming next.
Plenty Of Fish. The site has millions of advertisements on it. Placed in what the site owner would call “strategic” methods. I say it’s BS and completely disrespectful to put advertisements in the manor that site owner does. Sure it makes the site owner some money, but what does it do to the user? Depends on how stupid the user is.
Here is a list of bad things about that site that makes me thing of the old websites that used to bombard you in spam.
1. affiliate/advertisement links look exactly like site navigation links (yes you can design and color them as you wish)
2. Full page advertisements, Leaves you surfing a site that is not the site you where on. Disrespectful to your users
3. Not controlling advertisement content. I got hit 4 times with virus scan 2009 hijacker (it is a well known virus) plus adult friend finder links prove the site owner does not filter their ads, otherwise the ads would not compete with the site. Adult friend finder is a well known trash advertisement site that is filled with the same issues this site is showing. I would not doubt it’s the same people.
4. No adsense advertisement. Yeah I bash adsense but I have to say, once you are banned from adsense, it pretty much says you are pretty tricky.
I have a sense of feeling that the Method that site uses to select your suitable matches, is based on how long you wait for the next time you refresh while on that page. Oh and with the slight measure of adding whether you are a smoker or not.. it matches you to people who have answers similar to yours, how about do something better, people who have answers that cover what you lack and you cover what they lack.
The whole answering of the survey is BS, just another page for you to see more advertisements, and when you are done, be taken to more advertisements.
The page to see what you are about , the results of your surveys, is complete bs ” you are king of your domain, you are yourself and proud and eat food when needed” Oh come on it’s an ego petting, like getting your palm read.
The whole chemistry page, I have a feeling the people it sets as your highest match, are thepeople who get the highest votes in the “hot or not” rip off page.
Everything 75% and below is probably more like it.. yes the worn leather hand bag looking section. lol sit on that page five minutes or more without changing anything on the site… hit refresh and get a laugh as suddenly your matches change.. yeah I know people change their profiles and stuff, but COME ON!!!
I saw the site back when it was a get rich advertisement. I heard about it from my co-worker who met like 5 girls in a two week period ( I understand why now, Piggy farm). I stumbled across it last night while doing a search in google for “Houston Chatroom”. well Plenty of Fish came up everytime i searched in every way I tried. Well so i figured what the heck I signed up to use the chatroom. After fifteen minutes of their bombardment of profile crap, I forgot why i was there and started surfing the site. Gross. The women are nasty. Either super unattractive, or saddle bags for a harley ( I mean biker chicks with leather faces). or money hungry stripper trash with IN THEIR PROFILE it says ” you must make atleast XXX,XXX money to ride me” , or hot in model positions and never online I assume fake accounts.
Well never the less, I never found the chatroom. There is no chatroom on plenty of fish. I would give the place 80% higher value if they had what they meta tag their site with. it would actually be worth looking at and could potentially be ground moving if it allowed direct real time chatroom inter mingling like a chatroom, not that stupid messenger thing on all the other sites. real time chat conversation, that is where you actually get to know the wit of someone. Not some bs profile.
Burn it down. Plenty of fish is a bad place. The women are vultures. ” I don’t need a man to support me” and then the following line will say “must have good income and nice home” ok could somehow be innocent but I do not see it . Next line says “because I have needs and if you can’t be there for my needs then you are worthless to me”
What pathetic self hating dude can fall for that garbage ?
PS… Yes I named it stupid to prove a point about what they did.
E-harmony and Friend Finder and Match, have very limited social interface. They all offer you a chance to get a bigger account by paying more.. Why? so I can talk to no one, as freely as I can? I think those three sites lose bad to Plenty of Fish. And that is sad. it is truly sad that anything can lose to that garbage.
I deleted my accounts on all of them, There was one female there on plenty of fish who seemed worth talking to. But really, she came to my profile way to fast. I felt like a baby bunny getting swarmed by buzzards and vultures and eagles. And they all made me feel crappy about myself. I do not like feeling that way. I mean hey I just got here can you please not read me the fricken riot act ?????
If you want to know me talk to me. If you ask me anything about my income within the first 20 questions of conversation, I can only assume you are a gold digger. That to me makes you worthless.