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Hey guys V* tried to send me a final bill without my tax credit. And corp. won't return my calls. Even told them at the time I called for the disconnect that I wanted the refund to be included with the final bill which CR made note of. Then I followed up with and email to corp. Yet another example of BAD accounting and billing on their part. I know it's a small amount of money but it's the principle behind it.

Time to get the Attorney General involved again.
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I believe it is being corrected. I know personally if I feel someone is being rude or unreasonable to me at work I am less likely to put their request at the top of my list and no I am not a csr I work in software systems implementation and development (in a hospital). We have some physicians and users who make requests. The ones who are unresonable and demanding go to the bottom of the list. As the saying goes you get more flies with honey. So imagine when you are dealing with a csr who doesnt make very much money. Why would they try to go the extra step for you when you arent making their life any easier. For the record when I signed up with E* several years ago a buddy of mine signed up with me. He had to cancel his credit card because of double billing. It took him several months to get credited. So it happens with other companies not just voom. I am just getting tired of the Voom bashers. I am not against people venting as I have said before. Just tired of them (voom bashers) trying to convince those of us that are happy with voom that Voom is bad. Now I know you are going to take this as a personal attack and try to attack me. Go ahead if it makes you feel better I will rest just fine tonight enjoying my Voom.
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vurbano said:
The tax credit is being issued just this month as my 105 dollar bill is down to about 88 dollars. You expect to get the credit before anyone else before theyve figured it all out?
Id suggest some cheese with that whine.


vurbano said:
Im sure he will get his refund.

That's the easy thing to say (esp. from someone who already got his refund) when you aren't the one is trying to close out the account and get the money that was rightfully yours from the start. Nobody likes to be short-changed no matter how small the amount.
He might or might never get his refund, but why can't he come to this forum to voice his displeasure w/o getting torched?
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voomster2 said:
That's the easy thing to say (esp. from someone who already got his refund) when you aren't the one is trying to close out the account and get the money that was rightfully yours from the start. Nobody likes to be short-changed no matter how small the amount.
He might or might never get his refund, but why can't he come to this forum to voice his displeasure w/o getting torched?

good luck my friend....V* is still trying to charge my cancelled cc(so I would get no charges) from 3-4 months ago. My CC company called me to ask why someone is still trying to charge on it so I would know!! Always said they have a decent product but the worst accounting for a "major" (using term cautiously) compnay I have ever seen.
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voomster2 said:
That's the easy thing to say (esp. from someone who already got his refund) when you aren't the one is trying to close out the account and get the money that was rightfully yours from the start. Nobody likes to be short-changed no matter how small the amount.
He might or might never get his refund, but why can't he come to this forum to voice his displeasure w/o getting torched?
This is the third day of the first month of the refunds Einstein. Stop your freakin whining already. And no I have not gotten my refund yet, it is scheduled for the 11th. Its amazing that you feel some sort of prefferred entitlement to recieve your refund faster than every other existing customer because you have cancelled.:rolleyes:
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Vurb, you have to realize that there are a lot of consumers out there who feel it is their responsibility to complain about everything, because it somehow validates their sad position in life. It is a common phenomenon, one that usually results in just making the whiner more upset, when people don't cooperate with them. The whole society is becoming like this. Everyone deserves better treatment than the guy next to them. I just learn to tune them out, as it makes my world much nicer.
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We have a Breakfast and Dinner thread so... :)
Continuing from the Breakfast thread, found Cornbread mix so ...
Yellow Cornbread Mix
2 Hatch Green Chiles -diced
1 Egg
2/3 cup of milk
add to greased pan
Bake for 400f 20-25 minutes(From instructions)
now to put together and try... this to go with pinto beans...
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Garlic cheese bread
Green beans
Apples
Chocolate Milk
Some weird noodles. ;)
(They have salad and a couple other fruits if wanted)
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Club sandwich and corn chowder. Iced tea.
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Chili dog bowl, water… (homemade chili)
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Leftover wanton soup and pork fried rice. Water.
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Sweet tea…
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Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!

So let the game continue!

The last song was added by Bobby who posted...

One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters

CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!

Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game

Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.

Example:

Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow

Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio

Another example:

Ride the Lightning -- Metallica

Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne


Get it?


An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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I Wanna Talk About Me - Toby Keith
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98.6 - Keith
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I'm Easy - Keith Carridine
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Last reply · posted in Computers and Gadgets
Lately my eight year old Dell laptop has been shutting off even when I have a full battery. I have had to keep it plugged up all the time to keep this from happening. Any idea what is causing this? I replaced the battery about three years ago.
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A recalibration might be needed. Even if it shows full, the individual cells may have become unbalaced. And the BMS chip in the battery reports false information to the pc.
Try this. Start it up in the bios/uefi and leave it there until the battery dies and it shuts off.
It might just keep running longer than in Windows. Or run for a short while and shut off.
If it's the first case. Probably just needs a balancing. If the latter, the pack might just be dead.
Not throwing stones but perhaps just a cheaply constructed battery with substandard cells. Could be.

Patience. Keep restarting it in bios/uefi until it won't fire up anymore.
Then plug the charger in and let it complete a full charge. And see what happens. If it's better.
Do the same thing one more time. Run it until it dies dead-dead. Then just let it charge, pc shut off.
When charged, it might be better. It might not be.

There are bench jigs that read the actual BMS and override it to let a tech manually monitor and charge the separate packs. They can also reset any "time bombs" in it that cause an otherwise good pack to show bad.
Maybe Santa will be good to me some year.

You might just need a new battery. Maybe the PC power management chip is going. A Dell common thing.
Leaving a laptop plugged in with a full battery is known to reduce the life. Asus for one recommends that you don't leave the charger plugged in all of the time even when shut down. And setting Windows to charge the battery to 85% instead of 100% increases life.
That's all I got.
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That's all I got.
That was quite enough....I definitely learned something from your post. Thanks
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I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
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I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
If you can't get into the router to reserve an IP address just don't use DHCP on the device that needs connected and assign it to a specific IP address in the network settings.
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I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
They are not. Your best bet is to set up a third-party router, attached to the Starlink for your server, that you can get into, like a Linksys, etc
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…it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
The Starlink V5 Install Kit I just got comes with the Mini Router. It is pretty limited in what it can do. For example, it can provide only one IP subnet at a time, no Guest Network, but it does support the pass-thru to a third-party Router. You can also split the Wi-Fi into separate 5 GHz & 2.4 GHz SSIDs to help some IoT devices that don't support 5 GHz bands to work.

The larger Starlink Router that still comes with the V4 Kit does support a Guest Network with separate IPv4 Subnet, but it's $120 from Starlink. And it still won't do DHCP Reservations.
harshness
If you can restrict the DHCP address space to assign addresses to one end of the subnet (i.e. x.x.x.50+), you can manually assign the IP address on pretty much any operating system. This is a default behavior on several popular routers. As the Router Mini only supports 235 devices, I expect that's already done.

Another option is to use a router that supports PoE to power the antenna. This article discusses that option (under PoE Power heading):

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Now that I've had the v5 kit with the Mini Router, it's not as bad as I first thought. Yes, no DHCP reservations, but you can set up multiple SSIDs that have separate IPv4 subnets, and like the big brother, you can select from 192.168.x.0/24 or 10.x.0.0/16 (where "x" is 1-4).

You can also split a subnet and have different SSIDs for the 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz channels to handle some IoT devices. I haven't discovered what subnet the 2nd NIC on the router assigns, I'm guessing it's the first subnet.
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Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.
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Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

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Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

They will have to look at the switching sections to determine WHY 2 trains were on the same track ... at the same time.
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Thought this article might be of interest to some of you who might travel via train.