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What's the deal with fenceposts? I saw a shitload of them down around McComb and only one was cored with concrete. Is it that hard to get the right poles?

You pretty much had to use those on sonic, though right? They don't like you to open that drop ceiling while they are cooking, and when are they not cooking?

Like what? I am going to look at a bunch of them around Jackson for P10 next week. I get to QA their money gram installs (an actual contract with CVS on them), too, so I get bonus scratch. :D

Sonic has them. :D

What kind of computers are you guys seeing out in the field? Nearly everytime I encounter a customer, they complain about speed. My wife was riding shotgun and quickly formed the opinion that VSAT was crap. My take (and I told her this) is that the service can only be percieved as good as...

When I got certified, WB only had a few items on their approved list. Not because stuff was crap, but they just hadn't gotten around to testing it. They said if we knew of good materials, to recommend them for testing/approval. Maybe you should do that. Besides, everybody knows they are...

Yeah, I put memphis because I do a lot of work their when I actually go out in the field. Plus, nobody knows where robinsonville is. I suppose I could put Tunica Resorts or Grand Casino Tunica and it would probably be more accurate. I'm closer to the grand than the post office, anyway. My...

I live in robinsonville. No DSL is available as far as I know. Plus that wouldn't exactly be cheaper since I'd have to get bellsouth's phone service. Earthlink directs me to satellite internet by earthlink, but it costs $20 more and I wouldn't consider that anyway on the off chance that I might...

When we had time warner, you could alternatively get the same service through earthlink and AOL. Does anyone know of anything similar with commcast? They are raising the rate and it isn't worth what it costs already....

You're nuts. Everybody around here wants EVERYTHING for free, because they think it is included in the set up price. :eek: I had a customer with TVs with dials on them. None of them would pick up channel 3, and I couldn't switch to 4 because some moron decide to take the switch off the back...

The vast majority of sites I visit that are marked non compliant, are marked so because the installer used no weatherproofing (mocap or whatever) on the connectors. If people would start doing that, I would be marking one hell of a lot more sites as compliant. It seems to me like a very small...

Why not just use the mount that the thing comes with? It's a tripod type. I wouldn't mount it over the ridge of a roof, but it happens. I have no idea what you are talking about in your PS. There are to be some misspellings...don't know if this is one or not: "band met and polarization...

The amazing thing is, the customers will compliment some of these hack installers, because the tech did exactly what the customer wanted.

All of these are reasons I quit doing installs. I had a customer griping at me on a QC because her computer was slow, but her son's laptop was OK. She showed me her computer.... It was a huge, old gateway, the sticker on the front said it came with windows 98. She was all "we installed a...

The ones I saw with the jerry rigged reducers were on chain link fence posts. :eek: Granted, wild blue is NOT that popular around here. There is only one WB job in the system waiting for me to take a look at it currently. Glad I am not depending on that revenue stream.

I thought the ballast was a function of the design of the mount and the weight and design of the dish. Most installers use a pad under all non pens. The WB systems have to have a pipe reducer, and I have seen some pretty lame attempts at those...........

What do you mean, bent? Also, two feet are missing from your equation. If you sink it 3 feet, that leaves 5 feet up, no?

Most of the time when I run on a QC in a city it ends up having been disconnected within weeks of activation. Which begs the question "what kind of morons are they selling these to, that have $$ to throw at installation, equipment, and cancellation charges within weeks?"

Where was that at? How do you get all that sh*t up on the roof at those Murphy Oil locations? I F'n hate those. No place to hide my ladder from the dufuses driving around there. The one I went to had the structure of the canopy way away from the edge. Fat daddy over here don't like walking on...

In mine and tates area, if I had to choose between the two, I would go hughesnet. Very few of the installs for either are 100% to spec, but the wild blues are some of the more fubar'd ones. You should see what these morons are using for pole reducers. I even saw one that was installed by the...

I have lots of those, but unfortunately, I have a confidentiality agreement. I can't even discuss an install with the customer. :( All I can do is hit the escalate button when I upload the info. Lesson: The less a QC guy says, the more he is saying. :D

That's why my stuff is locked. Only reason I can see for thieving my wireless is for illegal purposes that someone doesn't want to do at home. Child Porn, ect. I would go to jail if I caught somebody doing that. I'd kick their ass on GP, and probably to within an inch of their life for involving...

Because then I could not deliver my message. It does not say FU, I went whole hog and broadcast the entire phrase. As an added bonus, I think it is funny as hell.

Yeah, definately encrypt. There is a whole subculture of wardriving rat bastards that will post your wifi's location either way. I changed my SSID to "FUwardrivingpricks," specifically so I can see when and if it shows up on one of those maps.