Recent content by justen

GSM/UMTS and CDMA have different tolerances, but my guess is T-Mo is willing to accept/deal with out-of-sync situations with LTE more creatively than Vz/Sprint/T. Sprint handled things somewhat similarly with the original (Samsung-built) Airave and only required a GPS lock at boot. Eventually...

The Network Extender and other femtocells, as network elements, are where the time synchronization issues come into play. Your user equipment is fine — it wasn't all that long ago that end-user devices didn't have GPS. (And because GPS signal can be fleeting indoors, I don't know that any UE...

harshness: Authority to operate in a given area (and, if so, which spectrum to broadcast and receive on flows from that), I guess, is probably the most important? But without GPS for time, it wouldn't work. While NTP might be easier as you argue, it can be exponentially less accurate (GPS time...

The GPS actually serves a few different purposes... As a lot of folks here have mentioned, it helps with E911 (through A-GPS particularly if your device doesn't have adequate or any GPS signal of its own). It's also used by the network-side femtocell provisioning software to be certain you're...

I recently moved into a building that was converted from business suites back into residential apartments. It was, handily enough, prewired for Dish, with a single Western Arc dish on the roof running to a DP44 multiswitch on each of four floors. My Hopper 3 dilemma is that the new Dish Pro...

Yes, please!

My mother had one receiver on her account that DiSH insisted was leased (although my recollection was that we paid the dealer for all three of her receivers). After she passed away, I returned the one additional receiver to them. They provided the label, there were no additional charges. It...

A little good faith? I don't know exactly what procedures Dish follows once a payment is late, or how soon such procedures come into play, as I'm on autopay (and currently have a $145 credit due to an erroneous double draft last month). But from the gist of it, the guy appears to feel like...

VPN service... I use a VPN service called SurfBouncer for when I'm outside the United States. I end up with a Seattle-based IP address. I use their monthly plan, which just installs a small bit of software and has the added effect of allowing me to use sites such as hulu.com and tnt.tv. :D...

Rural areas! Any number of rural areas have post office box only delivery. If you search using usps.gov, it can tell you whether or not the area falls into that category (try 26209, for Snowshoe, West Virginia, for example, although it's a peculiar example). My mother lives in an...

Eastern Arc locals? It looks like your locals are on 110° (may be moving to 129° for HD) and are not (yet?) being carried on any of the Eastern Arc satellites (61.5°, 72.7° and 77.0°), unless I'm mistaken. Which means if you could get Dish to put up a 1000.4 for the Eastern Arc, you wouldn't...

No... I guess you missed my point of view... :rolleyes:

Molehills to mountains. This all just seems ridiculously overblown. It's a satellite dish. There are a number of outstanding, unanswered questions, and a few discrepancies, but the core issue seems simple enough. Yes, there could be ramifications, and yes, they should be clarified before...