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Stuart Sweet
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· posted in The Solid Signal Blog
Remote work is here to stay. It's less common than it was three years ago when health concerns drove millions to work from home. However, the percentage of people working from home is a lot higher than it was in the last decade. The Hill reports that 30% of us do at least some work from home, up from about 6% in the last quarter. Working from home is great of course, but even that can be a little constraining. When we talk about working from home, we're actually talking about working remotely and that can happen anywhere that there's an internet and phone connection. So why not work from the RV?

The problem with working from the RV


Your RV is your home away from home. With a kitchen and a bed, it beats the idea of finding some hotel on the road. Hotels can be sketchy, expensive, and occasionally both. With an RV you know that you're getting the comforts of home.

But what about reliable internet? A lot of times, your RV blocks cell signals from even getting in. Blame the metal, wire, and fiberglass between you and the outside world. Even if you get decent internet in the RV, there's only so much you can do while tethering. You can't really stream video, and it may not be a reliable enough connection for your work tasks. It's a big concern for people who want to stay productive while outside the office.

There's a great solution


Take a look at the top of this article. It's called the GOTSPOT. You've heard of hotspots. They don't work very well for multiple devices, they're slow, and the data plans are pretty weak. GOTSPOT solves all those problems.

It's a simple cellular router with just one purpose: provide fast Wi-Fi in your RV at a great price. It's rechargeable, pocketable, and comes to you ready to use. You'll wonder how you got along without it.

With strong Wi-Fi you'll have the option to work, relax, surf, and shop from the RV just as if you were at home. You can even run a streaming box to your TV so you don't have to watch on your phone. Talk about luxury!

If you need even more…

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This SIMTELL wireless router is the next step in connectivity. It allows you to connect to your office VPN and even gives you wired Ethernet output for those who need it. Its range is good enough for your RV or even a large area around it. It uses eSIM technology so it can connect to the strongest carrier in your area, not just the one carrier you use on your phone. If you're serious about doing business on the road, you'll want one.

Don't forget the cell booster

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By itself, a hotspot or cellular router may not solve all your problems. If you're having problems getting cell signal into the RV, that can still be a problem. It's great working from the great outdoors — and the GOTSPOT lets you do it — but if you have reception problems in your RV you'll want a cell phone signal booster.

A cell booster like this Drive Reach RV from weBoost is just the ticket. It's easy to self-install and gives you even stronger cell service inside than you get outside! It works with your GOTSPOT or SIMTELL and also boosts a total of 8 devices in the RV. That's enough for everyone to get strong cell service on their phone. That can make your investment in a GOTSPOT go even further!

Want to know more? Call the experts!


There's only one company you want to talk to: Solid Signal. No one else can get you the equipment, pre-activate it for you, send it to you anywhere, and even be there when you have questions. We have certified technicians ready to help during East Coast business hours, and we are even willing to call you back after hours if you need it! Call us at 888-233-7563 or, if it's after hours, just fill out the form below!


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dfergie
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Last reply · posted in What's Cooking?
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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Scott Greczkowski
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Last reply · posted in The Chit Chat Club
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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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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arlo
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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Last reply · posted in Computers and Gadgets
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.
dishstaller
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Last reply · posted in The Chit Chat Club
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Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.
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Last reply · posted in The Chit Chat Club
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.
dishstaller
Thought this article might be of interest to some of you who might travel via train.