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mom and dad fight a lot posted:Oh man I can't wait to see the mental gymnastics that the big three are going to spout to try and convince us that this is a bad idea. The nice thing is they don't have much power to block satellite internet because it doesn't rely on lines in ground, the bad thing is that satellite internet really sucks for latency
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Randalor posted:For goons in the Manitoba area, how good is Shaw internet and home phone services? Internet service is way better than MTS. Teksavvy uses the shaw network if you check out their plans
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The competition bureau did diddly squat when Bell swallowed up MTS
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I was on a black friday plan with shaw for 300 mbit / $60/mo - the 2yr valueplan ended and the price shot up from $60 to $104.. so I switched to teksavvy 150 mbit for $80/mo. While cancelling Shaw yesterday via web chat they offered $70 for the 300 plan, which would have been useful before I had switched.
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I was pretty irked. I'll try to remember this for down the road to tell them I'm about to cancel via web chat and see what happens. Has anyone heard stuff about star link in rural areas? I have a colleague out in the sticks who says she's hearing it's better than xplornet radio/satellite e: $800 equipment fee apparently?!
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Dell has their own refurbished store for selling off-lease machines: https://www.dellrefurbished.ca/ They have sales pretty often, their email newsletter is handy to snap up deals early in a sale. I was impressed when I ordered a laptop from them a few years ago it was immaculately clean and they bundled a brand new power adapter. e: and memory express has some refurb machines on sale on their front page right now
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Nitr0 posted:You Canadians sure are serious about your boxes of ram and fans and poo poo. Try living somewhere where the warmth from your PC's exhaust fans is literally the only thing keeping you alive
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During the outage (thankfully I wasn't affected) I saw local police + RCMP both send out facebook messages saying use something other than rogers if you have to call 911. I think best case scenario we can hope out of this is the shaw merger gets scuttled. I don't really see this affecting the status quo - if the liberals act like they're going to take a hard stance on it I doubt we'll see anything substantive, the next conservative govt will cozy up to the telcos like always. Remember when the united states broke up Bell and the company reformed itself like the T-1000? Good times
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Amazon's niche is kinda semi-brick n mortar, ie. you order from them with prime shipping and you'll receive the item *fast*. Not as fast as if you got off your rear end and bought it at real brick n mortar, but basically as fast as possible from a website. For my 3d printing hobby I get better parts, cheaper from aliexpress. I get filament from amazon because of cheap shipping. I'll get some parts (8mm steel rod) from amazon because I need it fast and it's generic enough the quality isn't terrible. I just ordered brake calipers for my car, they were on amazon and ebay from the same seller for the same (ludicrously cheap) price and I chose to order from ebay because I read something saying if you get a non-working item you can report it to ebay as "item not as described" and the seller is on the hook for return shipping cost.
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Coxswain Balls posted:If you're still in the same place as when you lent me those tools I broke, Digikey is based in Thief River Falls down highway 59. I've placed orders with them over the phone at 3am and have had my parcel arrive later that day. Shipping is usually around $8 which is pretty decent for same-day delivery with FedEx. Ha. I usually think of 59 as going north to brokenhead/south beach casino. quote:For stuff like bar stock, steel plate or angle iron, Metal Supermarket has been great whenever I need something for whatever project I'm working on, especially if it's just a small piece and I don't want to buy an entire unit of material. They've just let me wander around to find something that works and if it's not complicated they cut stuff to size using their industrial equipment at no extra cost, which ends up saving me a ton of time compared to online ordering. Admittedly my metal working area isn't that great, but even if it was it probably wouldn't hold a candle to a hydraulic press the size of a bus. I wish my machinist friend told me about the place sooner. I've wondered about finding a local place that could cut a custom plate for a mechanical keyboard, I think 1.2mm thick aluminum, know anywhere local that has a waterjet or something and is hobbyist friendly? quote:Do you know anything about alpha@play? It opened near me where a tabletop games place used to be, and I think it's an extension of the upstairs business owner's 3D printing hobby. It seems neat as a local place I can get stuff 3D scanned and printed without having to bug a friend and take up their printer time, but I have no frame of reference for if their filament prices and selection are good or overpriced or what. A friend's husband works there so if it's not a ripoff I wouldn't mind tossing some business their way. Haven't heard about this place until now. Looks like a fair price on an ender 3 v2.. the PETG seems to have small markup vs amazon (like $27-28 vs <$25). This is an IT company that's branched out into consumer tech retail? Lol
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Perplx posted:I'll do it, I just a need a billion to get started, maybe 100 mill if the oligopoly lets me roam for cheap (lol never gonna happen). *five minutes later* i am being purchased by rogers
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Tagra posted:We've been having a weird DNS issue with Telus gigabit. We were having random outages where the DNS just wouldn't resolve anything, so I switched the machines over to an open DNS and it was completely resolved. We built new PCs as our Christmas present and were in an online game with a friend when we lost connection to the game, but not Discord. Our friend never lost connection, so we assumed it was something between us and the game, until about 10 minutes later when our computers both came up as "Connected: No Internet" and we realized the DNS had dropped out again and our new computers weren't set to an open DNS. Changed the setting and it's been fine again. If your local machines are picking up the router's IP for dns when the problem occurs (like it's 192.168.x.x address), then it could be the router screwing up the dns queries. If it's providing the public internet addresses of telus dns servers to your local machines.. something else is probably going on. I think there is a weird thing related to the "connected: no internet" message you described, where if windows can't resolve anything for some reason it takes down the entire network stack on that machine. I can't remember details just that I saw something like that before. Googling it brings up this crap where the first suggestion is to manually specify dns servers. Probably worth calling telus. Any router you buy should let you specify whatever dns servers you want to provide to the local network. I don't know if you'd put the telus router in bridge mode or unplug it or whatever, with bellMTS business fiber here we can unplug their HomeHub router and use our own firewall.
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Vintersorg posted:So in my area outside Winnipeg all we can really get is Bell MTS Fibre - which has been fine I guess - 500/500 and "good" tv. $150 w/ taxes. Huh. They just put fiber into my neighbourhood near the west perimeter in Wpg and I was considering switching because gigabit fiber is really appealing, but if they're gonna gently caress around with renewal prices like that I'll just take a shaw renewal offer.
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Promo online now for my same plan but $10 less and the "better" tv package.
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Grog posted:I can understand the "gently caress Bell" sentiment, and kind of MTS by extension. We still have 6.7 down/0.7 up DSL from Bell MTS where we are, which is the same speed we had when we lived in Winnipeg 20 years ago, and Bell seems to have no desire to invest in the infrastructure here. RFNow was supposed to install fiber last year but then pushed it back until the ground froze, and a rep from Valley Fiber dropped off ads in our neighbourhood last week with better prices than RFNow is offering. Hopefully we can actually get something decent out here once things thaw. Have you looked into Starlink?
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Squibbles posted:A friend of mine in Halifax got Starlink and said he ended up not being able to use it for work. It was too unstable for him to maintain a proper vpn or video conference for remote work. Not sure if it was his particular setup or something with starlink in particular causing the issues Interesting. I've heard nothing but raves from coworkers/colleagues in rural manitoba.
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got the email from rogers saying they own my shaw internet service now. great.. t-thanks?
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Tagra posted:Is it possible to activate the other ports on the Telus white Nokia ONT? Or buy a retail replacement that will work that has other ports I can use? That's really frustrating. Path of least resistance might be to get a cabler to do another run between bedroom and basement so the only port isn't taken up by the stupid ISP equipment. I was going to say just install the switch like you mentioned but IDK what it would do if you put it in front of the wifi hub, I think the ISP equipment is supposed to have the wifi hub exclusively plugged into the nokia transceiver e: why not move the wifi hub upstairs to be in the same room as the nokia box? You'd get better wifi reception getting it out of the basement and it should have additional ports to plug in someone in the bedroom. Put a network switch in the basement. mewse fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Oct 11, 2023 |
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Tagra posted:Ah, I see what you're saying... Yeah I could troubleshoot this in person but I have no idea what you're looking at
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Facebook Aunt posted:LOL my 2 year value plan from telus expired so I looked around and shaw/rogers had a good 2 year value plan for $70/month. Then the website says there is a problem with my account and to message them. I had an old inactive account that was causing trouble apparently so a rep has to reactivate it. Then he tells me the plan I selected is $95 a month. I think I've cancelled Shaw and received a new account number after like 2 months before - I remember I was paying attention because I was only supposed to get the promo if I hadn't been a customer in the previous 90 days.
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I've still got the advertised offer open in another tab and paste it into the window. Oh no, that's only for new customers, because I'm a returning customer the price is 95 bucks.
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Squibbles posted:Canadian ISP's in a nutshell. Look at our new higher price! Hell yeah
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Vintersorg posted:I checked in with my neighbor and he's easily getting it - so something about the modem or my desktop PC. If the Dell laptop gets it I'll know for a fact. Those numbers make it incredibly suspicious that your network link negotiated to 100MB instead of 1GB e: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF b
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Vintersorg posted:Hope it sticks! Some friends complained about plex hitching and this prob was it!! The cable matters. Cat 6 is better than Cat 5e is better than Cat 5. It will be printed on the side of the cable.
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Precambrian Video Games posted:Rogers and Bell started offering fibre* internet in my building after Rally did. Bell's best deal is slightly slower, $15/mo more than Rally and on a 2-year term during which they say they can raise prices whenever. Rogers is even more expensive and only 50mbit up. Doesn't rogers just call their plans "ignite" now rather than the misleading "fibre+" or whatever?
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