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Duckman2008 posted:To anyone on AT&T, the current trade in promo is really good. Most old smartphones that get a small trade in get rounded up to $100. So the 3GS would normally have a $30 trade in, but ATT will give you $100 for it. The craziest one so far is a HTC Hero trades for $2 but it gets rounded to $98. How does this work? I can take an old iPhone and walk out with a 100 dollar gift card, or use it to swap for a nice BT headset?
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skipdogg posted:How does this work? I can take an old iPhone and walk out with a 100 dollar gift card, or use it to swap for a nice BT headset? The rep will gladly use it towards a Bluetooth for you. FYI I recommend the Blueant Q3, although it comes down to preference.
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Is there any limit on how many per store? I see 5 per account online. I have a few old phones I'd like to do and rather not drive all over town
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Duckman2008 posted:The rep will gladly use it towards a Bluetooth for you. Always prefered my jawbones and plantronics personally. 
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Rent posted:Is there any limit on how many per store? I see 5 per account online. I have a few old phones I'd like to do and rather not drive all over town Official limit is one per store transaction, mileage will vary based on the store rep. EbolaIvory posted:Always prefered my jawbones and plantronics personally. Voyager Legend is pretty legit, although it has almost too many features. Work gave everyone at my store the Motorola Elite, and it was pretty awful (for a BT priced at $129). No one could hear me, it has a proprietary charger and it just sucked. I'll eventually cave and get a Q3, but I have a love hate relationship with Bluetooth. Duckman2008 fucked around with this message at 03:16 on May 15, 2013 |
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Duckman2008 posted:Official limit is one per store transaction, mileage will vary based on the store rep. Love my elite for music and poo poo while working. Totally useless for anything else though. My voyager pro+ is still great even if it does look retarded.
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Duckman2008 posted:Official limit is one per store transaction, mileage will vary based on the store rep. My store saw that, and decided to ignore it. So YMMV.
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Man AT&T can sometimes give me the runaround. Yesterday, my data was throttled, and when I checked my usage it was only just over 2GB. Well, my plan has 5GB, or so I thought. I had the grandfathered iPhone unlimited plan. They wouldn't fix it and I was pissed, and threatened to leave. They offered me another data plan that was $15 more a month (but 1/2 off for 12 months!) and I said screw it, and switched to TMobile last night. Today, they call me again, and now they are fine with bumping it up to the 5GB I'm supposed to have. I guess they didn't think I would just leave. So, now back to TMo to cancel everything, return my phone, and then go upgrade my i5 (I really can't stand it) to an S4. They were just throttling me hard. I'm talking almost unusable. I tried to use Siri to get me to the TMo store, and when I finally just remembered where it was it finally caught up and just told me I had arrived at my destination. Thanks.
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Let me know what you think of the S4. I'm pretty much 100% sold on it already but haven't had a chance to handle.
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Any known data problems? My dad who barely uses 200mb, has used up almost his entire 2gb plan on the first day. He has wifi everywhere he goes for the most part. He keeps having these issues over and over, a few months ago he got charged two overage fees. The guy seriously does nothing on his phone. I think he has one app installed.
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Nask26 posted:Any known data problems? My dad who barely uses 200mb, has used up almost his entire 2gb plan on the first day. He has wifi everywhere he goes for the most part. He keeps having these issues over and over, a few months ago he got charged two overage fees. The guy seriously does nothing on his phone. I think he has one app installed. What's his phone? And what apps?
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Beefstorm posted:What's his phone? And what apps? iPhone4 and last I looked at his phone he only had Angry birds installed.
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I've seen this happen to people from time to time. I'm pretty positive its some kind of firmware issue with the iphone. I even had a guy who's phone stayed connected to cellular data even when we turned it off on his phone. Its really weird.
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c0ldfuse posted:Let me know what you think of the S4. I'm pretty much 100% sold on it already but haven't had a chance to handle. I've had it for 2 days now, and I love it. I was always into jailbreaking my iPhone, but now I don't have to deal with that. Not trying to start an iPhone vs. Android thing here, but since I'm coming from years of being and iPhone user it's easier to point out what is that much better. - The screen blows away my i5's screen - The sound quality through the headset is so much better on the S4. For a bit both of my phones were working until the network caught up, and I tried a call on the i5, then the S4 and holy poo poo did the iPhone sound terrible by comparison. - The size I thought would be annoying, but it works well for me. - Some of the things you can do with gestures are gimmicky, but some can be very valuable to the right people (e.g., waving your hand over the phone to answer on speaker, just picking it up and putting it to your ear to answer, and even the "reach for the phone" gesture that will show a quick lock screen with notifications). I'd say that for someone with smaller hands it may be an issue, but not too much. Go handle one in the store. Even though they are slightly heavier than an i5 they feel lighter. Honestly I would have switched sooner but I was waiting for an Android phone with LTE. e: This is "step two" of my exodus from Apple products, the first being ditching a MBP in favor of using Linux full-time (already use it for work/school), and I'm much happier with my setup. Still have an iPad though so I anything iOS specific I won't miss out on. booshi fucked around with this message at 17:32 on May 16, 2013 |
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Nask26 posted:iPhone4 and last I looked at his phone he only had Angry birds installed. I would take it to an apple store and check it out.
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AT&T is making me switch from my serviceable old DSL to Uverse by the end of the month, how mad should I be about this? I'm afraid of change 
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We used to have U-verse and our AT&T wireless account charges all arrive on a single bill. At the end of March we closed the U-verse account when we moved. I still can't view our phone bill or any past payment history online, as it reports 'your account has recently changed from a combined bill to a standalone bill'. How many years will it take AT&T to sort this out? I kno
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Mr. Onslaught posted:AT&T is making me switch from my serviceable old DSL to Uverse by the end of the month, how mad should I be about this? I'm afraid of change If you're a twitch gamer you're probably going to be pissed.
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Mr. Onslaught posted:AT&T is making me switch from my serviceable old DSL to Uverse by the end of the month, how mad should I be about this?
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skipdogg posted:If you're a twitch gamer you're probably going to be pissed. Cool anecdote bro. I use Uverse Internet for online gaming all the time, with sub 50ms pings, with no issue.
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obeyasia posted:Cool anecdote bro. Good for you. Look I've been involved in some way shape or form with U-Verse since late 2006. Copper based U-Verse is delivered with an interleaved line which adds some latency to the connection, there is no way to turn it off. Copper based ADSL lines usually had interleaving turned off, and a very common complaint with twitch gamers going from legacy ADSL to U-Verse is a 20+ms increase in ping times. At a minimum it will be about ~12 ms increase. There are years of complaints online from hardcore twitch gamers getting pissed off about this. I have a U-Verse line here at my desk in fact. Here's an example. If I ping a demo server hosted at gameservers.com dallas location using IP 173.199.103.160 Corporate Internet: 12MS ping U-Verse: 30MS Not a big deal, but I'm in Austin Texas, pinging Dallas. 30ms pings are awesome by any reasonable standard. Let's try one in Chicago. 66.232.171.202 Corp: 36ms ping U-Verse: 56ms ping. New York: 66.55.142.64 Corp: 51ms U-Verse: 66ms 15 to 20ms difference on the U-Verse line compared to a non interleaved line. Hardcore gamers can and do bitch about those 20ms, and they bitch loudly. Odds are the person asking isn't a hardcore twitch gamer and maybe I could have put a little more information into my post but there is a demonstrable, and somewhat noticeable difference for certain users. Therefore if Mr. Onslaught is a 'hardcore twitch' gamer, he's probably going to be pissed about the extra lag.
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skipdogg posted:Good for you. Look I've been involved in some way shape or form with U-Verse since late 2006. Kids these days. Guess "twitch" gamers Dont remember quake 3. Ya know. When having a sub 200-300 ping was awesome. I'm sorry. But being a serious gamer. 15ms isn't going to piss me off. Maybe whiney xbox live brats might bitch but seriously. Sub 100 ping is good enough to top every map if you're actually the better player. I played quake 3 for years on anywhere from 300 to 35 ping. And sure 300 to 35 was a huge difference. But when I joined a server that I ended up at 80 with felt almost the same minus hitscan weapons and even then it took 1/2 a second to adjust if I even had to adjust. Most of the time it wouldn't matter unless the server itself was having problems keeping up. Guess what I'm saying is 15ms difference being a big deal to ANYONE is hyperbole. Dude getting switched. Dont worry about it. My guess is you won't even notice.
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EbolaIvory posted:Kids these days. If you have 50ms ping to your favorite server for a couple years and someone "upgrades" you and you have 65ms pings you might get pissed. You would have every right.
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Stick100 posted:If you have 50ms ping to your favorite server for a couple years and someone "upgrades" you and you have 65ms pings you might get pissed. You would have every right. I guess when I was 16. These days? Nope. I understand. But no reasonable person could tell a difference. Its all mental at those small of changes. Hell depending on the game your ping could jump 15-30 simply from server traffic. Like I get the whole higher ping is bad. But lord the whole 15ms poo poo is ridiculous.
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I currently have an discount from my employer, but we are in the process of being sold to another company. Is is possible to check to see if the new company offers an equal discount? What ends up happening when the transition is complete? Current company: Fisher Communications New company: Sinclair Broadcasting Or should I just skip over the employee discount and see if I can get one through my union? I'm a member of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW Local 45).
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diremonk posted:I currently have an discount from my employer, but we are in the process of being sold to another company. Is is possible to check to see if the new company offers an equal discount? What ends up happening when the transition is complete? Yeah just go into a store and check. I'll try and check tomorrow if I remember.
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EbolaIvory posted:I guess when I was 16. These days? Nope. This, pretty much. Sure you can split hairs to prove a point, but you're still splitting hairs. There might be a marginal to non-existent difference in service. Try it, and if it's unbearable, then switch to another provider. No big deal.
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diremonk posted:I currently have an discount from my employer, but we are in the process of being sold to another company. Is is possible to check to see if the new company offers an equal discount? What ends up happening when the transition is complete? I'll check Sinclair tomorrow. Normally I'd tell you to just stay quiet, but it sounds like the company agreement will be dissolved when you are bought out.
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skipdogg posted:Good for you. Look I've been involved in some way shape or form with U-Verse since late 2006. This just in! Corporate dedicated lines/plans are faster than home plans! But seriously, if you care that much, you a) care too much and b) are just wrong in saying that it makes any real difference. The average human reaction time is ~200ms. 15ms more will not make any difference, nor one you could even perceive. e: And every "hardcore gamer" is an idiot. booshi fucked around with this message at 05:00 on May 18, 2013 |
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obeyasia posted:I use Uverse Internet for online gaming all the time, with sub 50ms pings, with no issue. booshi posted:This just in! Fiber optics are faster than copper!
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adorai posted:that's a blanket statement that just isn't true. We have metro ethernet over copper pairs from frontier that has been just as reliable and just as fast as the fiber offerings from our other carriers. Without knowing it's copper ahead of time, there is no way I would be able to tell from the quality of the service. That is true. There are some instances where copper can win over fiber optics, depending on distance, the latency from decoding the signal in fiber optics, etc etc.
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adorai posted:You seem to be implying that anything below 50ms is good. Pulling off a deagle headshot is a lot easier with 25ms than 50ms. Nobody gives a poo poo. Deal with it, or switch providers, or whatever. Edit: speaking of things no one cares about, a warning to reps: the home security stuff is off to an extremely slow sales start. Sales are bad to say the least. I've gone to just stuffing a flyer in the bag and leaving it at that. Duckman2008 fucked around with this message at 13:04 on May 18, 2013 |
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Really? we haven't even rolled out any home security/connected home stuff in my market. The only thing thats not selling is the HTC First.
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Duckman2008 posted:Nobody gives a poo poo. Deal with it, or switch providers, or whatever. Although Digital Life is very cool, who the gently caress thinks, "I need a security system. AT&T seems like the way to go!" That and no one is going to spend nearly a grand for a system that's worth it.
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Beefstorm posted:Although Digital Life is very cool, who the gently caress thinks, "I need a security system. AT&T seems like the way to go!" That and no one is going to spend nearly a grand for a system that's worth it. Basically this. They haven't advertised it a at all either.
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Duckman2008 posted:Nobody gives a poo poo. Deal with it, or switch providers, or whatever. Seriously though, freakishly low pings are awesome. <30ms is the sweet spot.
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Duckman2008 posted:Basically this. They haven't advertised it a at all either. Although CSP claims they will starting advertising like crazy in my market next week...
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Could I get a quote? 450 minutes, 5 gigs of data, unlimited messaging, and I am a union member. I appreciate the help.
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crutt posted:Could I get a quote? 450 minutes, 5 gigs of data, unlimited messaging, and I am a union member. I appreciate the help. $40 for voice $20 for texting $50 for data Total: $110 Alternative: 4GB mobile share: unlimited call and text. $70 for base, $40 for line, $110 total. Discount goes off the base, so either the $40 or the $70. Both include tethering.
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crutt posted:Could I get a quote? 450 minutes, 5 gigs of data, unlimited messaging, and I am a union member. I appreciate the help. CWA? Helps to know which union. Unless shits changed. 39.99 = 450 min 20 = texting 50 = 5gb data. You get your discount off the 39.99 Efb
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