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Before anyone fires back I'm not complaining about paying extra for having to have it installed on a pole and a few feet of cable buried, but $180 seems steep.
This being that Dish installed the pole for me about 3 years ago at another apartment for free.
Just wondering if this is an average price or if it's a little high. If it's par, that's fine, just seems steep.
This being that Dish installed the pole for me about 3 years ago at another apartment for free.
Just wondering if this is an average price or if it's a little high. If it's par, that's fine, just seems steep.
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WTT0001 said:
http://www.satelliteguys.us/showthread.php?p=641561#post641561
um yhea
WTT0001 said:
You can cut more corners with DWay, what are you talking about? They both take 2 lines in. Plus Dway has to be crosspolled which can sometimes be a pain in the ass. WB you only have to get a signal and your good.
Dway is not 24 hours plus on the WO neither, who told you that?
I was talking about Wildblue being easier to sell to a customer because of the lower price.[/QUOTE]
WTT0001 said:
You want to talk about a superior product ok.
1. Number of operational satellites: WB 1 Hughes 9
2. Manufactures satellite system equipment: WB no Hughes yes
3. Manufactures communications satellites: WB no Hughes Yes
4. Services US government and US military: WB no Hughes Yes
5. Services large-business, enterprise (Fortune 1000) customers: WB no Hughes Yes. Hughes has 95% of the VSat enterprise market. oh and did I mention they service the US government?
6. Number of network operations centers (NOC) WB 1 Hughes 3
7. Owner and manager of network operations center (NOC) WB no Hughes Yes
8. Installation available nationwide: WB no Hughes Yes
9. Installation available on a Globle market: WB no Hughes Yes.
10. Financing available for residential plans: WB no Hughes Yes.
11. Proprietary network security and encryption infrastructure: WB no Hughes Yes.
12. Uses Internet Protocol Over Satellite standard (IPos). WB no Hughes Yes.
13. System warranty (Parts). WB 12 months parts 90 days labor Hughes 15 months parts and labor.
14. Repair warranty service calls (Labor) WB $75/hr after 90 days of service, Hughes Free.
15. Fair Access Policy (FAP) Maximum Recover Time: WB 30 day refresh Hughes 8 Hours.
16. Satisfaction Guarantee, Return Policy: WB 30 days but only for Particapation Retailers and they charge you $79.95 to come out and take it down.
Hughes 30 days.17. Mailbox size: Hughes 2,000mb WB 25 mb.
18. On the FAP When comparing the Professional version of both which is thye same price per month. Wildblue gives you 12,000 MB per month, 30 x 24 = 720 hours per month 12,000 MB / 720 Hours = 16.67 MB per hour. Hughes gives you 350 MB in a 4 hour perion, 350 / 4 Hours = 87.5 MB per hour.
19. Hughes offers 2 options on equipment. The larger dish option can either be used with home pakages to improve on signal quality which helps in extreme weather, or in upgrading to a small office or business internet plan which Wildblue does not offer.
20. Hughes offers a static IP option which is essental in VPN usage.
21. Hughes does have the capability for VOiP, Wildblue... um yhea
22. With Hughes, have you heard about Spaceway? www.spaceway.com
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WTT0001 said:P.S. I'll give a point back to Dway for offering better plans than WB at the moment (I will also state that WB is concentrated on Home/Home office at the moment), And another point for having a bunch of different sats up there to point at (of course the 1-2 hours to get it recomissioned isn't mentioned but hey
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Again more misinformation. It has rarely taken me over 1 hour to complete a satellite transponder change.
What else do you have. You gave me the mediocre info. What are some technical aspects that you can give me?
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Been a while since I checked on beams shut down, still not half the country but 6 is more than the 2 I had heard last. Your point
Dway doesn't inspect jobs, half the jobs I have done service calls on for other installers were not grounded, dishes were not solidly mounted, sloppy cable runs, etc. WB inspects jobs and they will call you back to fix them and drop you if you don't (We've had it happen to at least 2 companies/installers in this area alone). My comment still stands. As to the crosspol, if the pole is level and you set the skew on the dish to the area it needs to be in and peak it out with the birdog or any other decent meter, you will pass as is 90% of the time (and by pass I mean solid pass, nothing low). The other 10% of the time it should take less than 10 min. using the OPI. Even on this one.
As I said, WO time doesn't matter. Customer could care less.
1. Already covered in last post
2. Matters why??? We were talking about end user performance.
3. See 2
4. Last Post
5. Last Post
6. Last I checked, WB 5, Hughes 3?, WB has them in Riverside CA, Cheyenne, WY, Laredo, TX, Syracuse, NY, and Winnipeg, Canada
7. Matters why??? EU performance again
8. Maybe but clarification, WB covers the whole US although there are some areas installers don't cover (Distance/Certification/Lack of installers in the area)
9. Agree with you here
10. I'll argue this one by stating $300 vs $600, if you can't afford the $300 up front then how will you afford $99 a month over 12 (15?) months
11. Is that why it is sooo slow?
12. WB uses Docsis (? Spelling, fairly common standard I would think (cable)) Who is using the more compatable protocal?
13. That may be the official stance but I can tell you that we are doing service calls for people 8 - 12 months later that WB is still covering. Still, Dway wins this one.
14. Wrong comparison, correct comparison would be out of warranty to out of warranty, WB = Standard Service Call ($59 - $99 depending on distance), Hnet = $59 - $99 depending on distance.
15. Yes, but if you need to download a 600 meg file, Hnet = Dial up for a long time, WB = normal speeds all the way through (assuming you are under your monthly limit, which you should be)
16. The 30 days applies period as far as I know, It is in the agreement, there shouldn't be any dealers that won't honor it, if there are then you should be talking to WB. As for the charge to come take it down, Gas and time to run out the 50 - 100 miles, yes, someone better be paying for it.
17. I would agree with this one but for normal usage 25mb is plenty (my verizon account is 10mb and I havn't had a problem yet), If it is really an issue i'll send you a gmail invite
18. Wrong #s, WBs pro pak is 17Gb a month, Select is 12Gb, Value is 7.5Gb, That being said see point 15 for the main point, Hughes is 8 hours or 4 hours, in point 15 you state 8, here you state 4???. Minor detail so don't worry about it too much, bottom line is that if you spread your useage out, neither fap should matter, Hughes has more theoretical usage, but if you need that 600mb file now, WB wins
19. Covered in the last post, WB is concentrated on home usage, In general, downtime is less than 45min (15 in reality), if it is that mission critical, spend more and go with a small office or enterprise system.
20. As of right now that is correct, WB is planning on it in the future (WB1?)
21. From what I hear, neither is great.
22. Reality check, until WB came out they had canned it and were going all TV, Now they need it to compete, amazing
All that really did was point out minor details, Again, back to my original point, Overall, I can live with WB, Not Hnet, We make more money selling Hnet, but we sell a ton more WB. We have 150+ WB customers, as of last check 4 canceled after they were installed (1 was that the customers wife didn't like the dish no matter where it was and pulled it down a day later, another canceled 2 days after it was put in because Vonage wasn't working, reactivated 2 weeks later and finally canceled 4 months down the road due to money problems, another because he couldn't deal with the lag of satellite (was expecting cable type speeds), and the last because they only ordered it for a 7 day festival). Pretty good stats if you ask me.
WTT
P.S. I have only had one transponder change take less than 1 hour total (from the time I called on the phone to the time the system runs through the final registration) and that was done in 15min total, Every other time it has been at least 15 - 30 mins on the phone, 30 min to 1 hour for the noc to get it set and another 10 to run through the registration again. The last 2 times I had to do it (about 1 month ago and about a week before that) It took 2 hours (given, they changed satellites the day before) and 1 hour 15 mins. If it generally takes less for you, awesome, maybe it is just my luck
Dway doesn't inspect jobs, half the jobs I have done service calls on for other installers were not grounded, dishes were not solidly mounted, sloppy cable runs, etc. WB inspects jobs and they will call you back to fix them and drop you if you don't (We've had it happen to at least 2 companies/installers in this area alone). My comment still stands. As to the crosspol, if the pole is level and you set the skew on the dish to the area it needs to be in and peak it out with the birdog or any other decent meter, you will pass as is 90% of the time (and by pass I mean solid pass, nothing low). The other 10% of the time it should take less than 10 min. using the OPI. Even on this one.
As I said, WO time doesn't matter. Customer could care less.
1. Already covered in last post
2. Matters why??? We were talking about end user performance.
3. See 2
4. Last Post
5. Last Post
6. Last I checked, WB 5, Hughes 3?, WB has them in Riverside CA, Cheyenne, WY, Laredo, TX, Syracuse, NY, and Winnipeg, Canada
7. Matters why??? EU performance again
8. Maybe but clarification, WB covers the whole US although there are some areas installers don't cover (Distance/Certification/Lack of installers in the area)
9. Agree with you here
10. I'll argue this one by stating $300 vs $600, if you can't afford the $300 up front then how will you afford $99 a month over 12 (15?) months
11. Is that why it is sooo slow?
12. WB uses Docsis (? Spelling, fairly common standard I would think (cable)) Who is using the more compatable protocal?
13. That may be the official stance but I can tell you that we are doing service calls for people 8 - 12 months later that WB is still covering. Still, Dway wins this one.
14. Wrong comparison, correct comparison would be out of warranty to out of warranty, WB = Standard Service Call ($59 - $99 depending on distance), Hnet = $59 - $99 depending on distance.
15. Yes, but if you need to download a 600 meg file, Hnet = Dial up for a long time, WB = normal speeds all the way through (assuming you are under your monthly limit, which you should be)
16. The 30 days applies period as far as I know, It is in the agreement, there shouldn't be any dealers that won't honor it, if there are then you should be talking to WB. As for the charge to come take it down, Gas and time to run out the 50 - 100 miles, yes, someone better be paying for it.
17. I would agree with this one but for normal usage 25mb is plenty (my verizon account is 10mb and I havn't had a problem yet), If it is really an issue i'll send you a gmail invite
18. Wrong #s, WBs pro pak is 17Gb a month, Select is 12Gb, Value is 7.5Gb, That being said see point 15 for the main point, Hughes is 8 hours or 4 hours, in point 15 you state 8, here you state 4???. Minor detail so don't worry about it too much, bottom line is that if you spread your useage out, neither fap should matter, Hughes has more theoretical usage, but if you need that 600mb file now, WB wins
19. Covered in the last post, WB is concentrated on home usage, In general, downtime is less than 45min (15 in reality), if it is that mission critical, spend more and go with a small office or enterprise system.
20. As of right now that is correct, WB is planning on it in the future (WB1?)
21. From what I hear, neither is great.
22. Reality check, until WB came out they had canned it and were going all TV, Now they need it to compete, amazing
All that really did was point out minor details, Again, back to my original point, Overall, I can live with WB, Not Hnet, We make more money selling Hnet, but we sell a ton more WB. We have 150+ WB customers, as of last check 4 canceled after they were installed (1 was that the customers wife didn't like the dish no matter where it was and pulled it down a day later, another canceled 2 days after it was put in because Vonage wasn't working, reactivated 2 weeks later and finally canceled 4 months down the road due to money problems, another because he couldn't deal with the lag of satellite (was expecting cable type speeds), and the last because they only ordered it for a 7 day festival). Pretty good stats if you ask me.
WTT
P.S. I have only had one transponder change take less than 1 hour total (from the time I called on the phone to the time the system runs through the final registration) and that was done in 15min total, Every other time it has been at least 15 - 30 mins on the phone, 30 min to 1 hour for the noc to get it set and another 10 to run through the registration again. The last 2 times I had to do it (about 1 month ago and about a week before that) It took 2 hours (given, they changed satellites the day before) and 1 hour 15 mins. If it generally takes less for you, awesome, maybe it is just my luck
WTT0001 said:Been a while since I checked on beams shut down, still not half the country but 6 is more than the 2 I had heard last. Your point
Dway doesn't inspect jobs, half the jobs I have done service calls on for other installers were not grounded, dishes were not solidly mounted, sloppy cable runs, etc. WB inspects jobs and they will call you back to fix them and drop you if you don't (We've had it happen to at least 2 companies/installers in this area alone). My comment still stands. As to the crosspol, if the pole is level and you set the skew on the dish to the area it needs to be in and peak it out with the birdog or any other decent meter, you will pass as is 90% of the time (and by pass I mean solid pass, nothing low). The other 10% of the time it should take less than 10 min. using the OPI. Even on this one.
As I said, WO time doesn't matter. Customer could care less.
1. Already covered in last post
2. Matters why??? We were talking about end user performance.
3. See 2
4. Last Post
5. Last Post
6. Last I checked, WB 5, Hughes 3?, WB has them in Riverside CA, Cheyenne, WY, Laredo, TX, Syracuse, NY, and Winnipeg, Canada
7. Matters why??? EU performance again
8. Maybe but clarification, WB covers the whole US although there are some areas installers don't cover (Distance/Certification/Lack of installers in the area)
9. Agree with you here
10. I'll argue this one by stating $300 vs $600, if you can't afford the $300 up front then how will you afford $99 a month over 12 (15?) months
11. Is that why it is sooo slow?
12. WB uses Docsis (? Spelling, fairly common standard I would think (cable)) Who is using the more compatable protocal?
13. That may be the official stance but I can tell you that we are doing service calls for people 8 - 12 months later that WB is still covering. Still, Dway wins this one.
14. Wrong comparison, correct comparison would be out of warranty to out of warranty, WB = Standard Service Call ($59 - $99 depending on distance), Hnet = $59 - $99 depending on distance.
15. Yes, but if you need to download a 600 meg file, Hnet = Dial up for a long time, WB = normal speeds all the way through (assuming you are under your monthly limit, which you should be)
16. The 30 days applies period as far as I know, It is in the agreement, there shouldn't be any dealers that won't honor it, if there are then you should be talking to WB. As for the charge to come take it down, Gas and time to run out the 50 - 100 miles, yes, someone better be paying for it.
17. I would agree with this one but for normal usage 25mb is plenty (my verizon account is 10mb and I havn't had a problem yet), If it is really an issue i'll send you a gmail invite
18. Wrong #s, WBs pro pak is 17Gb a month, Select is 12Gb, Value is 7.5Gb, That being said see point 15 for the main point, Hughes is 8 hours or 4 hours, in point 15 you state 8, here you state 4???. Minor detail so don't worry about it too much, bottom line is that if you spread your useage out, neither fap should matter, Hughes has more theoretical usage, but if you need that 600mb file now, WB wins
19. Covered in the last post, WB is concentrated on home usage, In general, downtime is less than 45min (15 in reality), if it is that mission critical, spend more and go with a small office or enterprise system.
20. As of right now that is correct, WB is planning on it in the future (WB1?)
21. From what I hear, neither is great.
22. Reality check, until WB came out they had canned it and were going all TV, Now they need it to compete, amazing
All that really did was point out minor details, Again, back to my original point, Overall, I can live with WB, Not Hnet, We make more money selling Hnet, but we sell a ton more WB. We have 150+ WB customers, as of last check 4 canceled after they were installed (1 was that the customers wife didn't like the dish no matter where it was and pulled it down a day later, another canceled 2 days after it was put in because Vonage wasn't working, reactivated 2 weeks later and finally canceled 4 months down the road due to money problems, another because he couldn't deal with the lag of satellite (was expecting cable type speeds), and the last because they only ordered it for a 7 day festival). Pretty good stats if you ask me.
WTT
P.S. I have only had one transponder change take less than 1 hour total (from the time I called on the phone to the time the system runs through the final registration) and that was done in 15min total, Every other time it has been at least 15 - 30 mins on the phone, 30 min to 1 hour for the noc to get it set and another 10 to run through the registration again. The last 2 times I had to do it (about 1 month ago and about a week before that) It took 2 hours (given, they changed satellites the day before) and 1 hour 15 mins. If it generally takes less for you, awesome, maybe it is just my luck
Piss match Piss match!!!! Its nice to argue with someone who is civil.
After this post lets take this were it needs to be in the satellite internet forum so we can have more comments. These people looking for a pole price could care less about this. If you look at the map I posted below that shows the population density of the US its and of the one with the beams shut down it is clear that 50 percent of the population right now is down.
The birdog does not help on the cross poll, it only shows you if you have found the bird or not. Some satellites even if you set the skew right it still can be a pain in the ass to get a passing score. Hor 1, AMC 3, and sometimes IA8 are hard to pass here. Sometimes like on Hor 1 we will have to put a spacer in the skew plate to make it pass.
Hughes does check jobs also. We are a retailer but we also have a contract with P10 and our jobs are checked often.
2. Hughes has the technology to produce equipment while WB relies on a third party houses. I know Hughes has recently started sending out dishes made by Raven and I will say "they suck"
4. 5. Hughes supplies service to major corporations. "Chevron, McDonald's, Dollar Tree, Cendent Corp (Days Inn, Ramada Inn, Super 8, etc.)" also the US government. Basically if you see a VSat on top of a building its Hughes.
6. As far as I can tell you are right on the NOC issue.
8. There are some spot were WB beams cannot reach.
10. Hughes gives an incentive if you finace the equipment, about 75% of people do this.
12. IPoS the only one approved by TIA, ETSI, and ITU standards.
15. Just like the Email issue, you can use a file manager that can pause the download. When do you download anything over 100 MB that is not a movie?
16. A non-refundable $79.95 uninstall fee will apply at the time of termination. Our 30-Day satisfaction guarantee is offered by participating retailers only.
End Date: The first 30 days after installation of the WildBlue service. http://www.wildblue.com/legal/disclaimer.jsp#retailer
18. I was comparing the plan that is the same price and same speed.
19. As you know WB uses Ka band which is more sustainable to rain fade. Anything over 11 GHz has a great potential to rain fade the higher the more. Ka band 18 to 40 GHz, KU band 12 to 18 GHz. C band is 4 to 6 GHz and is rarely affected by rainfade. That is the reason why you are not suppose to touch the reflector on a WB dish and a SW dish.
21. I have no experience with the 7740 so that's all I can say.
22. Hughes did not can the first two Spaceway satellites. Directv had the option for Spaceway 1 and 2 because they owned a great deal of Hughes stock and jumped on the bandwagon so they could offer HD Lil. There are a total of 3 Spaceway birds going up for sure and Hughes has the option for a 4th.
You say you have 150 customers on WB. We do about 150 Dway installs per week.
On the Ping issue, what are you really going to do with anything over 500 anyway? It does not really matter if its 600 or 900.
Also with a WB system you cannot travel. A Hughes allows you to go from place to place which can help in Emergency situations. www.groundcontrol.com
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Picked up a sweet directv dish, mount, twin lnbs and a short cable.
Has anyone converted one to FTA? A Frankenstein of sorts...
Has anyone converted one to FTA? A Frankenstein of sorts...
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Many of us have used a universal LNBF mount (or get creative with L brackets and plumbers tape - perforated metal strapping). Use a few inches of aluminum tube (or a piece of 1x2" lumber) to extend the support arm (replacing the plastic mount used by DirecTV and Dish) to place the LNBF throat opening at the correct distance from the reflector, the correct height and at the correct angle. Nothing magical... simply place the new linear LNBF in the center at the same distance, height and angle as the current combo.
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To add: 101W Ku seems to be (one of if not the) strongest for me, and if I only had Ku I definitely want 101W for the music mux, it's robust FEC and strong signal help a lot. I've thought about using a used Dish/DirectTV dish at my Dads to supplement his OTA (mainly for my benefit when I visit 
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Brief 60 minute clip about next gem autonomous fighters - not remote controlled, but rather collaborating with controllers and aircraft in the theater.
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We've literally got a movie already about this
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Agents need appropriate context to make what would be understood as the correct read in a situation like that, and that Gemini answer was a clear miss on that front.
That said, we've also seen Musk (and/or his team) put his thumb on the scale (or just release a very poor product) with his own deployed AI since:
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In the end, it's all a tool. Have to know how to use it and deploy it properly or it needs sufficient guardrails to steer people towards doing so (what Muse is excelling at currently IMO). I'm routinely interacting with several agents a day operating various processes locally and in services I use, and there are numerous others silently spun up to perform actions or satisfy requests from my prompts.
Related to earlier discussion in the thread on leveraging local inference: this kind of analysis happening behind the scenes is something everyone will have built into Windows, IMO. Most people won't see all of this, just the results, unless they want to dig into how the fix was chosen. Stuff like this will be standard as agents get local system access baked in, and more of the inference itself moves on-device.
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Ok, I'm bored .... actually - to be more precise - I'm bored of eating the same rotation of 9 or 10 meals that are currently my "go-to" meals. My wife works the long hours - I work from home as and when i feel like it ... which means i generally do most of the cooking ... and so by default - i also make out the shopping list ...
We cook at home 5 or even 6 nights a week - but we always seem to fall back on the same old tried and tested "quick and easy but tastes ok" meals. Week in week out.
Pot Roast - mash and Peas.
Spaghetti
Chicken Pasta in cheese sauce.
Curry & rice
(these are some of mine)
Now it's not that I'm not adventurous in the kitchen ... I'll try anything once or twice ... but we all do it. Unless your name is Martha Stewart or Rachel Ray .. we all eventually fall back on our 8-10 favorite "meals"
So i thought - if we shared some of our own go-to meals with each other ... we might be able to add a few "new" ones to our own arsenal of meals.
So again - I ask you ...
What's for dinner tonight ?
Please give me something new to add to my rotation ... its our weekly shop tomorrow - so i want to pull together a few idea's and try and eat a meal each day next week that I've never had before .. or at least something that is not on my current "go-to" meal plan.
What meal do you always seem to fall back on in your house ? Maybe its something that I've never tried or not had in a while. I need inspiration !! I've got a blank shopping list in front of me - and nothing sounds good .. HELP !
We cook at home 5 or even 6 nights a week - but we always seem to fall back on the same old tried and tested "quick and easy but tastes ok" meals. Week in week out.
Pot Roast - mash and Peas.
Spaghetti
Chicken Pasta in cheese sauce.
Curry & rice
(these are some of mine)
Now it's not that I'm not adventurous in the kitchen ... I'll try anything once or twice ... but we all do it. Unless your name is Martha Stewart or Rachel Ray .. we all eventually fall back on our 8-10 favorite "meals"
So i thought - if we shared some of our own go-to meals with each other ... we might be able to add a few "new" ones to our own arsenal of meals.
So again - I ask you ...
What's for dinner tonight ?
Please give me something new to add to my rotation ... its our weekly shop tomorrow - so i want to pull together a few idea's and try and eat a meal each day next week that I've never had before .. or at least something that is not on my current "go-to" meal plan.
What meal do you always seem to fall back on in your house ? Maybe its something that I've never tried or not had in a while. I need inspiration !! I've got a blank shopping list in front of me - and nothing sounds good .. HELP !
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Smoked some salmon on the grill while enjoying some Blue Moon beer. Kinda cool tonight so I fired up the heaters. Here in FL, we fire up heaters once the temps get below 60 
As for the salmon, I seared them first, then flipped them off to the side not over the coals and brushed on some lemon pepper marinade followed by some salmon seasoning. Threw some hickory chips on the coals and then closed the vents to about 10% airflow. Yum.
As for the salmon, I seared them first, then flipped them off to the side not over the coals and brushed on some lemon pepper marinade followed by some salmon seasoning. Threw some hickory chips on the coals and then closed the vents to about 10% airflow. Yum.