Recent content by xgrep

Well, well. Denial-of-service attack. Just what I suspected. Fortunately, it's possible to implement some detection and remedial mechanisms in most high-end network systems, so I trust that PhonePower IT staff are now adequately educated (or rapidly becoming) on this. Pretty sick world we live...

If you find a provider you consider better, let us know. I've had 7 or 8 so far, and this glitch by itself isn't enough to get me to move back to any of those. Frankly, I think it would be hard to do much better - no internet-based business is immune to system failures or hacker attacks. And...

All's well now - in and out are fine. Heckuva day for the PP IT folks.

I agree they've been reliable, and tech and sales support have been very good (better than what I experienced with Lingo/PrimusTel). If I had to guess, I'd say that instead of being a trend, this incident might result in them being even more reliable (they may go for redundancy in equipment, and...

Wow, didn't figure I'd be on satelliteguys discussing a voip outage, but I'm in the same boat as everyone else, here. This has all the markings of a denial-of-service attack against them. If that's the case, then they might be in a heap o' trouble, because if you don't have the kind of...

What a skeptic. Sure it will. And as soon as somebody makes either a blu-ray recorder or D-VHS VCR with a USB 2.0 port, we'll be all set. I heard Sony is planning that right after the Hades hockey team wins the Stanley Cup. x

Sorry to see this a bit late ... did you call Comcast to see if they had the channels you want? When I switched to Comcast from Dish over a year ago, it was only because they finally did offer my channel (TV5) in our area. But there was nothing specific on their web site about it, and I only...

Not to imply anything, but why would your competition be booked for the next 3 months, while you can do an install today? :shock: Just kidding; nothing you've said suggests you're not every bit as desirable as the competition. It's just that the way you worded it came out funny. x

It's nice to hear someone confirm what I can see with my eyes. When you do see a 22Mbps MPEG-2 stream, though, it can look pretty nice. It's disappointing to see stuff like Seinfeld reruns being pushed out there on an "HD" broadcast, but it seems that there just isn't that much true original HD...

I wonder what info you based that comment on. I switched to Comcast 5 months ago for HD. I get 6 HD channels for $5/mo (three locals, HBO, SHO, and ESPN). That's a helluva a deal, and I even matched all the rest of the E* programming I had before for a similar package price (lower total...

Well, with a cable run of >30' (altitude plus some horizontal), especially if it's RG59, it's reasonable that a preamp could help, depending on the receiver's front end gain section. It's just that it's worth trying without one, first. And if you've got one an it's doing a good job, adding more...

Re: Couldn't get $149 deal.... CSR roulette. Unbelievable. Not unique to E*, but still unbelievable the level of churn. Given that we know they're reading this forum, you'd think fixing the CSR inconsistent stories would be a priority, but I guess not. That would seem to blow my $1K total...

Thanks, that at least doesn't refute my hypothesis that you're "exclusive" if you spent over $1K. What I'd like to hear is if anyone who spent *less* than $1K got the $149 offer. That would shoot down my theory. x

Re: Called Dish for 811 Deal A commitment to what? I offered locals + an int'l a la carte + HD Pak. That would cost more than AT50. They said no. Thanks, x

Unless I'm mistaken, you don't need HD Pack to get HBO-HD and SHO-HD. You just need a HD receiver and a subscription that includes the movie channels. x