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Chrisj CMA
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« on: July 30, 2020, 01:38:47 PM » |
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So the TV turns on but all it says is NO SIGNAL. The internet opens but so jittery you can’t stand to look at it. After checking resetting, disconnecting and reconnecting restarting and two trips to the COX store, two trips to Walmart and three calls to the COX help line I finally got the TV/computer area fully functional again.
I would have rather done three rear wheels than this mess. Ok at least it’s Valkyrie related now.
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Patrick
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« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2020, 02:08:21 PM » |
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I think all the cable companies are a PITA. But, I guess today they are a necessary evil. [ I refuse to hang a dish on the house]. We pay them a fortune and have to fix their crap ourselves, quite a scam they have going on.
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Serk
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« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2020, 02:21:24 PM » |
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Heh, wish you were local to me, I'd fix your TV and computer problems if you dealt with my Valks!  |
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Never ask a geek 'Why?',just nod your head and slowly back away...  IBA# 22107 VRCC# 7976 VRCCDS# 226 1998 Valkyrie Standard 2008 Gold Wing Taxation is theft. μολὼν λαβέ |
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Jess from VA
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« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2020, 02:33:31 PM » |
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When I had Cox Cable (many years) I lost signal all the time; just about every time it rained (all old wires on poles, not underground). It got so bad, I started deducting all down time on my monthly bills, and they didn't like it, but they didn't cancel me.
Now with Verizon buried fiber optic, on the rare occasions I have a problem, it's mostly inside my house. Yesterday I had to reboot my router for the computer, the TV was fine.
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Chrisj CMA
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« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2020, 02:33:51 PM » |
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Heh, wish you were local to me, I'd fix your TV and computer problems if you dealt with my Valks! Move to north west Florida and it’s a deal  |
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« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2020, 02:47:35 PM » |
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I'm on an antenna. Got Really Tired of the crap from the sat outfits. All that money every danged month and the sat stuff bout as messy as my antenna is BUT the antenna is free. Free is good. And storms affected my sat and storms affect my antenna. Course there Are days I wanna throw the whole shootin match in file 13. RIDE SAFE.
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Today is the tommorow you worried about yesterday. If at first you don't succeed screw it-save it for nite check. 1964 1968 U S Navy. Two cruises off Nam.
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Farside
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« Reply #6 on: July 30, 2020, 03:32:43 PM » |
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Quote:Chrisj I would have rather done three rear wheels than this mess. Ok at least it’s Valkyrie related now. [/quote]  Wow 3 rear wheels  It wasn't that bad was it  |
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Chrisj CMA
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« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2020, 03:41:14 PM » |
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Quote:Chrisj
I would have rather done three rear wheels than this mess. Ok at least it’s Valkyrie related now.
Wow 3 rear wheels It wasn't that bad was it [/quote] Lol. It was for me. I’m not a computer geek. I’d much rather be physically tired doing something I know than be mentally exhausted sorting through the spaghetti noodles of wiring I don’t understand that well. |
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Bighead
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« Reply #8 on: July 30, 2020, 03:51:58 PM » |
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I cut the cable about 7-8 yrs ago and started useing sling tv less than half the price for cable. Use a roku stick and have plenty of free stuff on there as well. Also have a very small round antenna for local channels which I get 23 stations on.
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« Reply #9 on: July 30, 2020, 05:30:21 PM » |
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I cut the cable about 7-8 yrs ago and started useing sling tv less than half the price for cable. Use a roku stick and have plenty of free stuff on there as well. Also have a very small round antenna for local channels which I get 23 stations on.
a lot of people are doing that more and more and do not blame them. I am paying 85 bucks discounted per month for fricking dish network top 200 (15 bucks off per month for 2 year committment) and that is a lot of dough we are spending on the 6-7 stations we actually like to watch between the 2 of us. You flip thru 100 stations to get maybe 1 or 2 stations on that are worth watching. PLus we only watch TV from say 5 p.m to midnight and maybe 1/2 the days on weekends. Add that 85 up per hour we watch TV and is tad bit too high IMO. WE do record a lot of shows though on the DISH DVR recorder which is nice our 2TB harddrive capacity is 85% full.... |
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John Schmidt
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« Reply #10 on: July 30, 2020, 07:36:02 PM » |
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I cut the cable about 7-8 yrs ago and started useing sling tv less than half the price for cable. Use a roku stick and have plenty of free stuff on there as well. Also have a very small round antenna for local channels which I get 23 stations on.
I have Spectrum cable and have it all set up using Roku, but still costs an arm and a leg. How do you get stuff without a cable service like you mentioned? I'm like most others, don't watch more than maybe 10 or so channels out of the hundreds they have available. |
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Bighead
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« Reply #11 on: July 30, 2020, 08:05:12 PM » |
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John you stream it over the Internet. The Roku stick is set through the WiFi.
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« Reply #12 on: July 30, 2020, 08:10:49 PM » |
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Hope you at least took the Valk on your various errands.
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Chrisj CMA
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« Reply #13 on: July 31, 2020, 05:25:40 AM » |
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Hope you at least took the Valk on your various errands.
Yes I did. And that was the best part of the day |
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« Reply #14 on: July 31, 2020, 07:37:28 AM » |
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I have Spectrum (formally Charter) here in OR. When we moved here 11 years ago, we went with a Sat company which required we get Internet thru Phone company. Wow 10mps speed on good day, and they are getting 20mps speeds right now. Only took 2 winters of cleaning off dish and having to pay $75 service charge for them to come out to fix problems with their equipment to help in deciding to change to cable. Since then what ever went wrong the Spectrum equipment, they came and fixed for free. No service charge. Plus get 100 plus mps speed on internet.
Not saying I wouldn't switch to antenna, IF there were any good signals on this side of the mountain. Can get 3 station here.
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« Reply #15 on: July 31, 2020, 09:24:29 AM » |
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I cut the cable about 7-8 yrs ago and started useing sling tv less than half the price for cable. Use a roku stick and have plenty of free stuff on there as well. Also have a very small round antenna for local channels which I get 23 stations on.
I have Spectrum cable and have it all set up using Roku, but still costs an arm and a leg. How do you get stuff without a cable service like you mentioned? I'm like most others, don't watch more than maybe 10 or so channels out of the hundreds they have available. Same issue here. Some of the channels I like aren't available on Roku unless you have a cable subscription. We ended up going hybrid for that reason - I have a basic cable subscription (whatever the minimum plan was) and a cable box on one tv and Roku on all the other tv's. It did save me about $50 a month, but I'm still paying more than I'd like. -RP |
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