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Bruno

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Last reply Apr 21, 2010 · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

Dish's Sorry TRICKS

I have been a long time customer but its about to come to an END. I get a recorded call from dish today telling me how lucky i was to be choosen to now become paperless billing. I was going to be so happy that i didnt have to haul off all this extra trash!! I was not given an option at all just was told i was changed to paperless billing.

The way Dish $crews it customers i person would be crazy not to want a paper bill to see what TRICKS they are up to now.

IT LOOKS TO ME IT SHOULD BE UP TO ME TO DECIDE THIS !!!!!

Yes i hope you can tell I am mad about this..........!!

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Koilvr

Apr 20, 2010

It's principle of the matter.

Scherrman

Apr 20, 2010

It can be a bother but really not an issue to ruin your day. I had this happen to my credit card bill. They just made it an online bill without telling me. I wondered why I hadn't gotten a bill in a while so I checked online and noticed that I had a been charged a late fee. I was upset for about a half hour. Now I just go online and make my payments whenever I want, very simple.

AlaJoe

Apr 20, 2010

Not sure why you are mad. I have had paperless for the last three years it works great as Dish just automatically charges my discover card once a month and I do not have to fool with it. Since I pay my discover card off monthly I get 1% cash back. So figure an average $100 a month bill I have paid $3,600 over the last three years so I have got $36 cash back and saved about another $13 in postage so way I see it I am about $50 to the good.

Also there is no chance I will ever get a late fee because the bill gets lost in the mail going either direction.

And Got Cinemax for a penny for a year for signing up.

Whats the down side?

Bruno

Apr 20, 2010

Koilvr said:
It's principle of the matter.

:up Thanks to all who know what i am talking about. Its suppose to be My account so why does Dish have the right to keep changing what i want!!

How would you like for Dish to keep turning on playboy channel if you dont want it. Please leave my Account alone.

catnap1972

Apr 21, 2010

Scherrman said:
It can be a bother but really not an issue to ruin your day. I had this happen to my credit card bill. They just made it an online bill without telling me. I wondered why I hadn't gotten a bill in a while so I checked online and noticed that I had a been charged a late fee. I was upset for about a half hour. Now I just go online and make my payments whenever I want, very simple.

And why do you think they did it? So you forget about it and they nail you with penalties!

magnum2066

Apr 21, 2010

Settle down peeps, overreact much? It isn't that hard to pick up a phone and give Dish a call. Resolved mine and got late fees retracted because I was also switched out of the blue.

catnap1972 said:
And why do you think they did it? So you forget about it and they nail you with penalties!

Oh yes! Because pissing off customers is the way to retain and gain more. Please stop with this mob mentality.

OrlandoSGM

Apr 21, 2010

AlaJoe said:
Not sure why you are mad. I have had paperless for the last three years it works great as Dish just automatically charges my discover card once a month and I do not have to fool with it. Since I pay my discover card off monthly I get 1% cash back. So figure an average $100 a month bill I have paid $3,600 over the last three years so I have got $36 cash back and saved about another $13 in postage so way I see it I am about $50 to the good.

Also there is no chance I will ever get a late fee because the bill gets lost in the mail going either direction.

And Got Cinemax for a penny for a year for signing up.

Whats the down side?

Could not agree more, paperless is great....and also, why stay with the company that keeps "cheating, lying and making things up"...instead of complaining LEAVE!!!!

aquaman67

Apr 21, 2010

Sorry if this has already covered. I didn't read all three pages.

You do know the online bill is exactly the same as the one they mail you?

Well, the same minus the dead trees...

The Insider

Apr 21, 2010

Bruno said:
:up Thanks to all who know what i am talking about. Its suppose to be My account so why does Dish have the right to keep changing what i want!!

How would you like for Dish to keep turning on playboy channel if you dont want it. Please leave my Account alone.

Well first id check my bill to make sure I was not paying for it. Then Id enjoy the free programming :angel

dangue

Apr 21, 2010

The Insider said:
Well first id check my bill to make sure I was not paying for it. Then Id enjoy the free programming :

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Song Name Game Part 3!

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

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reubenray

Last reply Today at 10:36 AM · posted in Computers and Gadgets

Laptop Shutting Off When On Battery?

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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arlo

Today at 10:09 AM

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.

dishstaller

Today at 10:36 AM

arlo said:
That's all I got.

That was quite enough....I definitely learned something from your post. Thanks

TRG

Pub Member / Supporter

Last reply Today at 10:27 AM · posted in Computers and Gadgets

Starlink Router question

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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b4pjoe

Saturday at 2:12 PM

TRG said:
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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HipKat

Saturday at 11:07 PM

TRG said:
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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Foxbat

Sunday at 12:44 AM

TRG said:
…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

Sunday at 11:46 AM

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):

Starlink V5 Is Here: What RVers Need to Know

Overview of the new Starlink V5 model along with comparison to the previous V4 model along with a recommended setup for mobile internet users.

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Foxbat

Today at 10:27 AM

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.

dishstaller

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Last reply Today at 10:27 AM · posted in The Chit Chat Club

I think we could all use a laugh - Rodney Dangerfield on Carson

Good...simple humor. Enjoy

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E92AtfTLge4

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Jimbo

Today at 12:37 AM

Not Rodney, but a laugh ...

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WHEcmortfK0?feature=share

dishstaller

Today at 10:27 AM

Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.

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Last reply Today at 10:17 AM · posted in The Chit Chat Club

At least 64 dead in Spanish passenger train collision

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.

At Least 64 Dead After Two High-Speed Trains Collide In Spain | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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Jimbo

Yesterday at 11:24 AM

dishstaller said:
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.

At Least 64 Dead After Two High-Speed Trains Collide In Spain | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

They will have to look at the switching sections to determine WHY 2 trains were on the same track ... at the same time.

dishstaller

Today at 10:17 AM

Thought this article might be of interest to some of you who might travel via train.

The safest seat to sit on in a train

Safety experts have shared top tips on train safety after a fatal railway crash in Spain killed 69 people, including where the safest place is in an emergency.

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