Stephen Rice, Champion
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Today:
What is going on???![]()
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Tonight, Viasat: 1.5 Mbps down, I've only used 12 G of my 150, too bad it is so pitiful in the evening.
But on a brighter note, the power company came out yesterday and marked the under ground FIOS cable path to my home. Today they had a couple of crews stringing the FIOS cable from one pole to the next on the state roads and to the last pole on my lane. (the rest will be underground, because i have an underground power line as well, after the last pole they will run the underground for 1000 feet free. To the pole was free, and since i am 998 feet from that pole the installation is free.)
So probably in 6 to 8 weeks, or sooner we should be on FIOS.
This service was never expected, the Broad Band initiative and the heads up work by our rural power company is making this a reality.
My so called 150G Silver 25 Mbps plan yields reasonable speeds during the day time hours, but as you all know after 5 PM it is ridiculously slow.
I am opting for the 2nd tier FIOS, 100 Mbps, unlimited data for 100 dollars a month.
They have a 50 Mbps, unlimited data for 74 dollars and the 1GB speed plan is 179 dollars a month.
Most Dish and Directv subscribers are cancelling and just doing the a la cart streaming, I'll see the performance before cancelling our Directv..
I hope some of your counties, power companies get with the program.
GabeU, Champion
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First, TI keyboard type with cartridge slot. Second, Packard Bell from Sears, 40MB hard drive, I think a 286, 12 MHz. Third, Gateway p120, I think 16mb ram. Fourth, Dell p4 1.8 with 512mb rdram. 5, 6, 7 self assembled.
Stephen Rice, Champion
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It wasn’t difficult to take a 300 MHz processor and overlock it to 450 MHz. All you had to do was go in the BIOS and change the bus speed from 66 MHz to 100 MHz. Of course, your SDRAM had to be PC100 for it to work.
It was a very nice trade off for the lack of cache on the early processors.
Those were the days back when technology was still fun. Now we take for granted the disposable super computers that fit in our pockets.
GabeU, Champion
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"A 366Mhz Celeron " ??? Maybe a 366Mhz Pentium?Nope. It was definitely a Celeron. It worked very well for the time.
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Now we take for granted the disposable super computers that fit in our pockets.Pretty much. Heck, my Raspberry Pi outperforms that eMachines by leaps and bounds, and it costs $35, plus the micro sd card, which is nearly four times the capacity and so much faster. :)
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By that time, all Celerons had integrated cache as well.
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VeteranSatUser, Champion
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Where is my acoustic modem!!!
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Major carriers wiped them out, but smaller telcos may still have them. I'm aware of a person still with a party line.
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VeteranSatUser, Champion
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That is why your speeds are so good. If nobody uses the beam, more bandwidth for you!!!
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GabeU, Champion
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And I thought performing one of the major Windows 10 updates would be awful.
On my old HughesNet legacy plan it would have taken 52 hours. SMH. Now it would take me less than two.
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Steve Frederick-VS1/Beam314, Champion
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Viasat works great for me, it is either Viasat or Hughesnet, no other options available at my house in the country.
GabeU, Champion
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When I had satellite internet installed I was happy as a lark. The difference was amazing. Well, the second day, anyway, as on the first day my upload speed was about 200Kbps and my download speed about 50Kbps. The lady I talked to said she had never seen that before and switched me to a different transponder. Whether what she said was true or not, who knows, but what she did fixed the issue. Then I was happy as a lark. LOL.
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By the time I got my eMachines desktop the MSN internet service that I chose came with it as a pre-installed application, though I can't remember if, at that point, I really needed to use it, or if I could use the built in dialer.
How times change.
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I remember dating this girl in 1993, with her telling me about this America Online thing and going into something called a chat room. I had absolutely no clue what she was talking about, even though she did her best to describe it. Had I realized what she meant I probably would have asked her to show me at her house. Still, I wouldn't have been able to afford a computer back then, and where I was living at the time, being out on own for pretty much the first time, I wouldn't have wanted to have one. I do remember the girl telling me that her father was really angry that she was jacking up the phone bill so much with going online, as it was by the hour at the time.
Later, though, I loved chat rooms. Yahoo Chat, and the rooms that you could create yourself, were awesome!
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You have identified 2 separate issues, which we have replicated here.
- In an upcoming release, Viasat Browser will include support for hardware accelerated video decode, which should eliminate the stop-and-go-ish behavior with 1080p rendering that you are now seeing. Viasat Browser is currently built off of Chromium 70; there is a new feature in Chromium 72 that supports this functionality and our team is already working on a version of Viasat Browser that is built off of that Chromium version.
- The right hand side will load if you hit refresh, but that it didn’t load in the first place is a bug that the team is actively looking into right now and will address in an upcoming release.
Thanks for bringing both of these issues to our attention!!
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You have identified 2 separate issues, which we have replicated here.
- In an upcoming release, Viasat Browser will include support for hardware accelerated video decode, which should eliminate the stop-and-go-ish behavior with 1080p rendering that you are now seeing. Viasat Browser is currently built off of Chromium 70; there is a new feature in Chromium 72 that supports this functionality and our team is already working on a version of Viasat Browser that is built off of that Chromium version.
- The right hand side will load if you hit refresh, but that it didn’t load in the first place is a bug that the team is actively looking into right now and will address in an upcoming release.
Thanks for bringing both of these issues to our attention!!
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Things are going pretty good this morning. Not bad for a 12 Mbps plan. I have come to believe that your average speed in inversely proportional to the number of complaints you post to the forum. LOL.

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GabeU, Champion
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I actually took the modems out of two of my old computers as I could see where connections were going at the time. One is with a shorter back plate, as it came out of an old Gateway micro tower, but I could still make it work. The other one is normal sized and came out of a Dell Dimension E521. The only problem would be if MS ended support in future Windows versions. Then again, there's always Linux.
I can still get dialup here from a few different companies, including AOL.
GabeU, Champion
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Those USB modems work pretty well. My folks used one for AOL with their laptop from 2011 until 2016.
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Sophie Mae
Michael McDowell
edit: Just read down a bit. Guess johnny c was the one I was talking about!
Sophie Mae
https://tipmont.org/news/item/fiber-internet-update
I live in Warren County. I sent an email to our REMC asking if they'd heard about the efforts of Tipmont, etc... and the general manager responded that the board had met to discuss what could be done to get fast internet service in our neck of the woods. I need to touch base with him, as that was several months ago.
As for the Viasat changes: yes, we've been impacted. The first impact was when Viasat2 was being touted as The Next Best Thing To Sliced BreadTM, then the second impact was with the recent changes to the Freedom and grandfathered "Unlimited" plans (I'm on the Silver 25 150GB plan).
The first impact was most likely due to the beam becoming congested with the unlimited plans which preceded Viasat2 coming online, which I'm sure you noticed, too.
The second impact has left us with speeds so slow during prime time as to be nearly unusable. It's not all that groovy during the day M-F either, but it's allowed me to work from home when I needed to.
When I first switched over to Viasat from HughesNet, it was fantastic. The first year or so was positively groovy. Then it all kinda went to Hades in a handbasket. :(
Michael McDowell