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"MysteryMan"
Pub Member / Supporter Cutting Edge
Last reply · posted in Computers and Gadgets
I created this thread on the original Edgecutter Cutting Edge Forums site. It's simply a place for those to review the latest software available for those using Windows 10 and Windows 11. To date it has received 112,559 views. I have been asked by staff to continue this thread here.
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WhiteBeard
One thing about updating Windows is that some downloads take less than 10 minutes while others take up to an hour. Like the 2026-07 Security Update that's been downloading for 45 minutes now.
HipKat
One thing about updating Windows is that some downloads take less than 10 minutes while others take up to an hour. Like the 2026-07 Security Update that's been downloading for 45 minutes now.
wth?? Mine took like 5 minutes. What kind've internet do you have?
harshness
Mine took like 5 minutes. What kind've internet do you have?
Download time has a great deal to do with when you're doing the download relative to the release of the patches. My one Windows 11 machine, an N150-based mini box, took four minutes just to register 1% downloaded. The second percentage milestone came in under a minute. It seemed like the further along it got, the faster it came down in a glacial process sense. All in, it probably took more than 40 minutes to download across a 180Mbps bi-di connection 23 hours after release.

Download speeds will pick up as more machines complete the update and the servers Microsoft uses (Akamai?) are no longer being blitzed, especially where Delivery Optimization is in play. The installation part of the process should be fairly predictable throughout the cycle.
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T
They snuck another one in tonight.

2026-07 Update (KB5121767) (26200.8894)

Required a reboot.
harshness
2026-07 Update (KB5121767) (26200.8894)
This replaces the Patch Tuesday KB5101650 update on certain Dell computers that suffered battery drain, poor performance, overheating, and unexpected shutdowns due to the patch.

Bleeping Computer said:
However, the root cause is a change introduced in the June 2026 KB5095093 preview cumulative update that causes a conflict between the new Windows USB-C Connection Manager interface and the Intel Innovation Platform Framework (IPF) Processor Participant driver.
Various articles note that the patch may apply itself to non-Dell computers.

Bleeping Computer is becoming a must-visit around the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month.
"MysteryMan"
2026-07 Preview Update for Windows11 Versions 25H2 and 24H2 Builds: 26200.8973 and 26100.8973 (KB5101684) has been released. This update is available through two release phases: gradual rollout and normal rollout. Moderate time needed for those choosing to perform a manual download/install/restart. Your device will restart several times installing this update. New features and performance improvements come with this update.
ewindowman
Lifetime Supporter
Last reply · posted in DISH Network Support Forum
Looks like dish is Bankrupt. Filling tomorrow Tuesday June 30th
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Bruce
Not a surprise, Starlink has really picked up a lot of former Hughes customers, both consumers ( which Hughes stop offering service to new subscribers) and businesses.
slow_poke_pete
Not a surprise, Starlink has really picked up a lot of former Hughes customers, both consumers ( which Hughes stop offering service to new subscribers) and businesses.
DISH was pushing subs over to starlink since they knew this was coming.
Bruce
DISH was pushing subs over to starlink since they knew this was coming.
They started losing subscribers well before that-

Subscriber Timeline
  • December 2020: 1.56 million subscribers (peak around Starlink's launch)
    Early 2022: 1.4 million subscribers
    Late 2023: Over 1 million subscribers
  • Q1 2025: 853,000 subscribers
  • March 2026: 681,000 subscribers

slow_poke_pete
They started losing subscribers well before that-

Subscriber Timeline
  • December 2020: 1.56 million subscribers (peak around Starlink's launch)
    Early 2022: 1.4 million subscribers
    Late 2023: Over 1 million subscribers
  • Q1 2025: 853,000 subscribers
  • March 2026: 681,000 subscribers

huesnet was never thart great
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osu1991
Last reply · posted in TV Shows
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CBS gives the go ahead for Captain Pike, Spock, Number One and The Enterprise to return in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds




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long_time_DNC
Was never a soap watcher, except for a brief time waaaay back in college and a bunch of students would gather in the lounge to watch All My Children. I did that during lunch for a few months and decided there were better ways to spend lunch hour...
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MikeD-C05
Was never a soap watcher, except for a brief time waaaay back in college and a bunch of students would gather in the lounge to watch All My Children. I did that during lunch for a few months and decided there were better ways to spend lunch hour...
I watched the three main soaps on ABC back in my 20s because I worked grave yards stocking and would watch them on my VCR in the afternoons when I got up after sleeping in the day. When I went to a dept. manager in the mornings, my buddy from the other department at Safeway and I would often go to eat at Mr. Ghatti's Pizza on our lunch break and they had a big box screen TV in the 80s we could watch the soap on which was All My Children at noon. "Tad the Cad" was our favorite soap guy. He was the shampoo guy at his birth mother's beauty shop and he seduced both mother Marion and her daughter Liza at the same time. Loved it when they both found out about the other.

Talk about "Love in the Afternoon" with Fireworks! :biggrin
long_time_DNC
I watched the three main soaps on ABC back in my 20s because I worked grave yards stocking and would watch them on my VCR in the afternoons when I got up after sleeping in the day. When I went to a dept. manager in the mornings, my buddy from the other department at Safeway and I would often go to eat at Mr. Ghatti's Pizza on our lunch break and they had a big box screen TV in the 80s we could watch the soap on which was All My Children at noon. "Tad the Cad" was our favorite soap guy. He was the shampoo guy at his birth mother's beauty shop and he seduced both mother Marion and her daughter Liza at the same time. Loved it when they both found out about the other.

Talk about "Love in the Afternoon" with Fireworks! :biggrin
The best I could do was remember the name of the soap everyone was watching (All My Children). You could rip my finger nails out and I couldn't give you character names or plot info. :biggrin
Y
What about Soap? Now that was comedy!
The best I could do was remember the name of the soap everyone was watching (All My Children). You could rip my finger nails out and I couldn't give you character names or plot info. :biggrin
Amnesia, affair, needless meddling, evil plotting character.

I remember one time waiting in the hospital waiting area and they had a soap on (no audio) and we were having fun adlib'ing the scenes.
Foxbat
Mama Foxbat was big into soaps, "Ryan's Children" was one I remember, and a young Kate Mulgrew before she got her Captain's pips.
The best I could do was remember the name of the soap everyone was watching (All My Children). You could rip my finger nails out and I couldn't give you character names or plot info. :biggrin
Erica Kane, that should have been a gimme.
long_time_DNC
Mama Foxbat was big into soaps, "Ryan's Children" was one I remember, and a young Kate Mulgrew before she got her Captain's pips.

Erica Kane, that should have been a gimme.
Oh yeah, Susan Lucci. I remember her...
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All My Children
All I can think of when I hear this, is Futurama "All My Circuits" ... lol

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Bruce
All I can think of when I hear this, is Futurama "All My Circuits" ... lol

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The best Soap Opera of all time.
Scott Greczkowski
Staff member HERE TO HELP YOU! Cutting Edge
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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FTA4PA
Baby I'm - A Want You - Bread
Bobby
(Any Way That You Want It) I'll Be There - Starz
long_time_DNC
Any Way You Want It - Journey
FTA4PA
The Way You Love Me - Faith Hill
sdfntx
Will You Love Me Tomorrow? - Carole King
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iBoston
Last reply · posted in C-BAND Satellite Discussion
I have a question. I am having jittering/stuttering across the entire TP spectrum. I'm seeing it at 4060 and 4100 and even higher. Is this a normal thing. I would have thought you would only see it on the lower frequencies closer to what was taken from Cband a few years back. This problem crept up about 3-4 months ago, and before i just throw money at the problem by investing in a filtered LNBF, i want to do a bit of checks and balance with you folk.

My stuttering appears as often as every 20-30 seconds and sometimes it doesn't happen but every 20 minutes or so. I seem to have solid locks on the signal. This is on a smaller 8' Solid Cband dish. I swapped out a different LNBF. Same result.

If the advice is to get a new filtered LNBF, would I be looking at the Titanium RED or BLUE band pass filter?
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Titanium
Not a lot to go on here, but....
The size of the dish can provide a narrower beamwidth, but it is no more or less susceptible to terrestrial interference. Terrestrial interference either enters the feedhorn directly from the sides or as a reflection off of the dish or other nearby surfaces. A deeper dish with better FD ratio is better at rejecting terrestrial interference. Could also be an issue with the scalar setting and rejection of adjacent satellite interference.

What is the transponder frequency, symbol rate and FEC? Does the SQ drop out randomly or never lock?
iBoston
Sorry for the delay.. Busy day yesterday. The signal never locks, except on one occasion, I left it on the service for hours, I came back and realized at some point a signal was momentary locked, because i had a partial image on the tv.

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Titanium
Sorry for the delay.. Busy day yesterday. The signal never locks, except on one occasion, I left it on the service for hours, I came back and realized at some point a signal was momentary locked, because i had a partial image on the tv.

4180 34284 5/6
Not characteristic of 5G C- band interference. Do you have access to a spectrum analyzer?
iBoston
Not characteristic of 5G C- band interference. Do you have access to a spectrum analyzer?

No. I suppose i can try a spare lnbf. I have a few being i've swapped a few for the filtered one. This just happened less than a week ago. I had no issues with the signal before that, and like i said, i can swing my 10' over and pick up the transponder without issue. We haven't had any wind storms and i fine tuned it a bit and made no progress.
iBoston
Well.. I have yet to do anything since i fine-tuned and still had no signal. However, at the moment, the transponder is beaming in perfectly at a higher dB than before i fine-tuned. I don't know what's up? Some temporary interference, or if its a fluke that i am getting the signal lock now and it will be gone tomorrow.
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Mister B
Pub Member / Supporter
Last reply · posted in Over the Air Television By RabbitEars.Info
For years I have tried to get KRWG-TV from New Mexico State University (see my avatar). I could get a usable signal back in the analog days but when they went digital they moved their tower which is behind a tall mountain in my line of sight. I do get an occasional stable signal on some mornings if I turn my antenna that way but otherwise gave up on it long ago.
I was very excited when I read on their web site that they now provide an OTA signal for El Paso. However, when I dug into the technical details on rabbit ears I expected trouble when I read that they are using the same rf 23 as the main signal. Also, I am over 18 miles from the 3.15 KW transmitter.
Sure enough, when I scanned for new channels the signal breaks up continually and has only occasional audio. I am getting a signal strength of 92 but signal quality of only 10. This is with a moderate GE attic/outdoor antenna with clear line of sight to KFOX's tower (that KRWG is using in El Paso). I also tried the 4 bay antenna I put up for my neighbor at a higher 20 feet with the same results.
I suspect the problem to be that I get just enough of the main channel 23 to interfere with the local signal. Ten years ago I would have been tempted to try a higher and more directional antenna but I am a bit past that stage at this point. I also feel the chances of success are rather slim.
I wonder if KRWG wanted to use the same rf 23 or were forced into the situation as there are almost no empty slots on UHF in this area. I almost wish they hade used high VHF.
Do any members know of any area where these multi-transmitter set ups work well? They claim it will be feasible with ATSC 3.0 but I am not holding my breath for that.
I thought this would be interesting for members who frequent this site. Below is my rabbit ears report.

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comfortably_numb
Of course, if/when KENW does allow us to stream, it'll piss off KNME, but AFAIK the law is the law... if they're both in the same DMA we have to receive equal access..
TRG
TRG
Of course, if/when KENW does allow us to stream, it'll piss off KNME, but the law is the law... if they're both in the same DMA we have to receive equal access..
Is the programming really that much different between the two?
comfortably_numb
Is the programming really that much different between the two?

Sometimes, yes. KENW does some really good documentaries that KNME doesn't air
lost_mesa
I'm going by the FCC TV Query which says KENW TV Portales is on R.F. 32. Did I miss something?
comfortably_numb
Did I miss something?

Their transmitter is near Clovis, not on Sandia Crest :)

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comfortably_numb
Well, I guess the squeaky wheel got the grease... but why only for my zip code? They need to open it up for the whole DMA... TRG and lost_mesa and N5XZS should all be able to access from their zip codes also!

Not sure these engineers understand how this works :what

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lost_mesa
Yes, KENW is between Clovis and Portales.

KUPT-LP is on Sandia Crest.
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navychop
Sometimes, yes. KENW does some really good documentaries that KNME doesn't air

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N5XZS
From what I remembered they do sometimes runs a student training for local news on KENW-TV in Portales, when I was at ENMU back in 1989.

Not sure they continue to this day depending on their budget. :hatsoff2 🤔
TRG
TRG
Pub Member / Supporter
Last reply · posted in The Chit Chat Club
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long_time_DNC
Yes, that's why I have a very large library of physical media of various types...
comfortably_numb
I now have triple redundancy for my media: cloud, flash, and HDD. Not quite ready to go "back" to tape yet..
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long_time_DNC
Not ready to go back to tape either, though I do have a Teac A4300 reel-to-reel deck for some tapes that I still have from back in the day. I have 1000+ CDs, 200+ LPs, 375-400 BDs. I also have digital media on flash and internal & external HDDs and SSDs. I'm not trusting cloud storage as it's out of my hands and can be "oops'd" too easily. Next for me: a NAS with multiple drives for redundancy...
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long_time_DNC
Sounds great, but to claim 1000 years durability when they haven't been around even 20 years seems a bit of a stretch...