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codo27 posted:Thats what frustrates me most about amazon, well, aside from literally all of their business practices. But the website itself is loving trash. You should be able to narrow down results by category to the finest degree, but its a crap shoot. The weird part is that the Canadian website is in fact worse in every way than even the American .com one. You'd think that would be the minimum standard, but MAN would you be loving wrong.
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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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Mister Facetious posted:The weird part is that the Canadian website is in fact worse in every way than even the American .com one. Nothing weird at all about it. That's just how everything is.
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Methanar posted:Nothing weird at all about it. That's just how everything is. It's just that the audible sites are basically exactly the same, so I don't understand what's holding Amazon back from being competent.
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mewse posted:This is an IT company that's branched out into consumer tech retail? Lol I'm almost certain that branch of the company is for the owner's hobbies so he can write it off for tax purposes, since it encompasses 3D printing services and supplies, foldable kayaks, those single wheel scooters, and bone conducting headphones. The 3D stuff seems to be really working out for them though. On top of retail, they can also do scanning and making print files for one-off parts on request; pricey, but often ends up being cheaper than a whole new part in a lot of circumstances. When I visited and was given the tour, a Hutterite family showed up and they spent half an hour talking about 3D printing. Apparently they get a lot of business from the colonies due to them being super into fabricating their own parts both for repairs and for fun, while tying into being self-sufficient. Related to that, if you have any friends or in-laws from a colony who can do you a solid, I'm told a couple of them around the province have waterjets you might be able to get some time on for small jobs like that. Barring that, Brunswick Steel over in Transcona can do those kinds of small-scale jobs, although I'm not sure what the cost would be - that same machinist friend who told me about Metal Supermarket suggested them to me.
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Mister Facetious posted:It's just that the audible sites are basically exactly the same, so I don't understand what's holding Amazon back from being competent. Honestly probably churn. From everything I've heard their a complete dumpster fire of a company to be a software developer. Doesn't shock me that they've been riding the boon from being "first to market" as a big online realtor
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Anyone with Shaw and the new offwhite modems ever have problems with them losing connection and need to be rebooted? Seems like every couple weeks the light on top is red with no internet service. I toggle the power and it comes back fine. Debating just contacting support to see if I can get it swapped out.
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The XB7 modem? That's more likely to be a signal issue before anything hardware related. You can check this without having to call in now by clicking Gateway>Connection>Shaw Network and scrolling down to the bottom. I can't remember exactly what the tolerance values were or even if they're the same these days, but I think you want the downstream SnR on all channels to be above 26dB, and power level between -7 and +7 dBmV (It might be -14/+14, I'm pretty sure it was at least a multiple of 7). At the very bottom is the count of cable modem error codewords, which should be a very low percentage of the unerrored codewords if not zero. Even if the modem is bridged, you can still log in at 10.0.0.1.
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Oh that's useful info! What are the Index values, are those the different channels? It looks like perhaps some of them are not really great, with power levels ranging from -4 to -17. SNR is mostly around 40dB dropping to 28 for the last channel. One of the indexes for the error codewords has a lot but the rest are near zero. Bad cable/splitter possibly? Or just contact support?
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Yep, downstream and upstream channels. I think the ones you want to be focused on are the ones labeled QAM under modulation, I have one that's labelled OFDM for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing but since it's on a much different frequency than the rest I'm wondering if it's used for admin stuff. While technically in spec (e: that -17 seems a bit out, especially if it's more than a few QAM channels. What frequencies?) your values seems a bit inconsistent so it might be worth checking the signal path and then calling in if there isn't any change. All of my downstream SnR values including the OFDM one are from 38-41dB, and power is at -4.2 to -6.2 dBmV (32 channels from 303-489MHz, 4 from 639-657MHz, and 740.8MHz on the OFDM one). All of my Correctables and Uncorrectables are at zero, except for the last column which you can probably ignore (3735936685 is 0xDEADDEAD in hex, that and 559030611 are some kind of developer stop codes in case something breaks I think, I'm not really a programmer so I don't know for sure other than those probably aren't real values). Basically check all the coax connections from the modem to where the signal enters the house by disconnecting and reconnecting to make sure. If there are any splitters you can try swapping them if you have spares or bypassing to see if they're causing the wider variation you're seeing. Best of all is to check it the next time you see the internet go out, ideally as soon as it happens; if you can still log in to the modem and check those values see if anything is really out of whack because that's your most likely culprit and a service tech will be better equipped at that point to find out what's going on with a proper signal analyzer. If you see any huge fluctuations write down the values and time and depending on the rep's knowledge level they should be able to use that to look at the modem history or even see if neighbours are seeing the same thing. Coxswain Balls fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Sep 3, 2022 |
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Lo friggin massive L at bell buying up distributel. That means start.ca goes to Rogers in a month and videotron gobbles up primus by the new year. Maybe Shaw can exhume and ingest the dry bones of Look to further bungle their Rogers merger.
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The real question is when is Teksavvy going to get acquired. I just cancelled today after 15 years of mostly good service. This is why I cancelled: 
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Bell upsold you in to an Internet2 link. noice.
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Canadian internet is good now actually
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EngineerJoe posted:The real question is when is Teksavvy going to get acquired. I just cancelled today after 15 years of mostly good service. Never, because they don’t own any last mile infrastructure and there’s no reason for any of the big 3 to care about them.
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DariusLikewise posted:Canadian internet is good now actually Brother, can you spare a cup of internet? Just fifty mbps in both directions is all I ask!
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 I'm just happy that you can get 100 up on Shaw now, although I think I had to go with the 750 plan to get it the last time my contract was up. I think you can get 100 up with the 300Mbps down plan now, and I don't think I do anything where the jump from 300 to 750 is even noticeable. Upload is where the fun is for self-hosted stuff and sharing live feeds of my wild animal cams, and I'd jump on a symmetrical 500Mbps plan for that.
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Is there an affordable unmanaged, 8 port switch that can do more than 1gbps per port? Something under $200
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EngineerJoe posted:Is there an affordable unmanaged, 8 port switch that can do more than 1gbps per port? Something under $200 How about 2.5gbps https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0995T34K...0NsaWNrPXRydWU= Methanar fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Sep 3, 2022 |
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Methanar posted:How about 2.5gbps yah that works... time to add this to 3 camels and wait for a deal
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shadow puppet of a posted:Lo friggin massive L at bell buying up distributel. That means start.ca goes to Rogers in a month and videotron gobbles up primus by the new year. I love that the announcement was released quietly at 4pm on Friday of a long weekend. Wonder if there will be any anticompetition grumbles.
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lol what a loving racket. I'm checking Bell and Rogers availability at my mom's place in Guelph. Bell has 10Mbit, your choice of unlimited or 100GB a month, no TV package. Rogers has either Gigabit or 10Mbit, nothing in-between. TekSavvy cable of course has a range of internet speeds for your budget.
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Everything sucks until Rogers or Bell bring fiber to your door
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Chris Knight posted:lol what a loving racket. I'm checking Bell and Rogers availability at my mom's place in Guelph. Bell has 10Mbit, your choice of unlimited or 100GB a month, no TV package. Rogers has either Gigabit or 10Mbit, nothing in-between. And they call it 10mb but I've never seen anyone get above 8 around here with that cursed old DSL. Seen many get well below 5, some less than 1. And then people told me how when they complained about it, Bell told them they were "bumping them up to ultimate" when there was literally nothing that they could have done to improve that poo poo. God drat loving bastards. Even at 10mb, its not suited for todays needs. They shouldn't be allowed to charge money for it in tyool 2022
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EngineerJoe posted:Everything sucks until Rogers or Bell bring fiber to your door Why just those two?
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Nitr0 posted:Why just those two?
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Telus (not Shaw because as far as I know they’re 100% docsis)
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Evis posted:Telus (not Shaw because as far as I know they’re 100% docsis) They have some areas that are fiber to the premise, but they slowed that way down when they realized they could milk RF for a little bit longer with DOCSIS upgrades.
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Chris Knight posted:Who else is doing last mile rollouts to single family homes? Telus, Sasktel, Videotron, CityWest, Teksavvy, O-net, Xplornet, Canadian Fibre Optics, Vianet, Moby, Novus, Cogeco, etc etc. Nitr0 fucked around with this message at 06:12 on Sep 5, 2022 |
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Just received my first Bell FTTH bill and, of course, there's an error on it. They're charging my $7/mo for the modem rental when my agreement says it's supposed to be free. Also, only got hooked up on the 2nd and they're already billing me for the month. That's kinda weird.
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CRTC OTHER TARIFF NOTICES [CRTC Tariff Notice] Telus TN 0573 – Introduce a Credit Card Processing Fee • Telus proposed a new credit card processing fee of 1.5% of the payment amount. • Telus noted that in 2018, a class action lawsuit resulted in Visa and Mastercard agreeing to modify their No-Surcharge Rules, allowing merchants to surcharge customers up to a cap starting October 6, 2022 • In a letter to Telus dated August 15, 2022, the Commission wrote that, having received many interventions opposing this tariff, the Commission will not grant interim approval of this tariff. See! Things do happen when people actually take notice of what's happening. That's some scummy poo poo, how many other companies are going to throw on a credit card surcharge after October 6.
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Cool, now Telus will appeal and they'll approve it on a Friday
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EngineerJoe posted:Cool, now Telus will appeal and they'll approve it on a Friday The System works!
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   Of course the truth is right here: Nitr0 posted:
"We won't grant interim approval but we will happily grant you full approval when no one is looking anymore."
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Tagra posted:
We need another form letter, even more sternly worded
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What's the deal with modems? It seems my ~8 y/o Thompson DCM476 is dying, or something. It cycles like, once an hour and is a real headache. Nothing else seems to be wrong. Teksavvy only lists the CODA-45 as compatible, but I understand there are problems with those chipsets. But I can't actually find anything else. I guess I'm stuck? Any thoughts? PS: no fiber in my houses diet
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I thought there was something off with my TekSavvy modem; I had to reboot it once a day for several weeks. I was being a tad lazy about contacting support. And then mysteriously after that Rogers outage, I've never needed to reboot it since.
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