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JPSandi
join:2003-06-09
Beverly Hills, CA
| Satellite Outage. Satellite Outage.
Just off the phone with Earthlink Tech Support and according to the techie 117 West Frequency 970 is dead, kaput!
His Engineers are aware of it and currently screaming at Hughes to fix it (his words).
So in short, Sh!t is busted!
JP
On dialup, cruising da net @ a screaming 49333bps! | |
|  Bacchus10157
join:2003-07-06
Janesville, WI | Re: Satellite Outage. No wonder I lost service. Is there dial-up access available through the service when this happens? I just got mine and am still working through the bugs.
Brian | |
| JPSandi
join:2003-06-09
Beverly Hills, CA
| It's up again...
As for dialup, if you are using Earthlink, yes you get 20 hrs per month and once you go over that I believe it's a dollar and something each additional hour up to $23.00 (the price of unlimited monthly) then it stops and you are just billed for that month as if you have an unlimited monthly plan.
So the most you'll be billed per month is your SAT fee + $23.00.
I've maxed out my dialup last month and already this month as well due to crappy service, errors, outages and more errors galore.
On the bright side if you call and complain to Earthlink loud enough they will give you the dialup (23.00) for free. Which I did get last month, but this month I have just given up complaining as this service is IMO substandard at best and not true broadband.
I made the mistake of buying before I checked this stuff out thoroughly and did not find this place (DSLREPORTS.COM) until after my gear was installed, in fact it was my installer who put me on to this site.
I’ll be moving from the Desert into the basin within a year at max where I will quickly sign on to a cable service where I can enjoy TRUE broadband.
JP | |
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wpfranklin
Funny, It Worked Last Time
Premium
join:2002-11-13
Mattoon, IL
| Re: Satellite Outage. said by Darwin  :
So it was only the 970 transponder on SatMex5 that was affected? Odd...
Actually, the odd has become kind of normal in this mixed up DW world. It doesn't seem that uncommon for one transponder or another to have a problem while everyone else, even on the same satellite, cruises right along. There are so many technical things it "could be": bird crash landed in the dish; someone tripped over the wire; the janitor's kid's basketball hit the dish mount once too often and killed the uplink to that transponder; I've about given up trying to think in terms of normal problems like failed switches and locked up servers and now think in terms of pins falling out of voodoo dolls. It seems to cause less frustration on my part to try and imagine all the creative things that could have gone wrong.... Home Depot delivery semi blocked the transmit dish, maybe?
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