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RE: Nook-Kindle
Look at it this way....DW has read 34 "free" books since she got her fire. At $5.00 per book, that's $170. she has saved. Net cost of the fire to date is $29.00 If she keeps going the fire will have paid her before a new model comes out. Take the Wal*Mart deal and start saving. Life it too short to always be waiting.
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brobox
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02/09/12 05:45pm |
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RE: satellite
We updated from a dome to the Traveler roof mount a couple a years ago for HD. One of the best upgrades we have done, it works flawlessly. Before setting up in a campsite I check Sat finder on my smartphone to see if we have a clear shot. If not move forward or backwards until we do, or change campsites. At a couple of state parks there were too many tree, but there was enough channels on the bat wing that we didn't mind. The speed of locking on the Sats with the traveler is 3 times faster than my old dome.
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brobox
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02/07/12 08:52am |
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RE: DISH technical issues
What is the problem? Maybe one of us has had the same problem and can help. For one thing the Winegard Traveler is NOT an in-motion system. I hope you are not trying to use it that way.
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brobox
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02/07/12 07:11am |
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RE: Sprint vs. Verizon vs. AT&T
Just my reasoning....Like others have said the iPhone is not 4G yet. I just switch from AT&T to Verizon due to coverage problem with AT&T including my home area. I elected to go with a Motorola Droid Razr because it is 4G and can be tethered to my laptop at no additional charge. For an additional $20. the Razr can become a wi-fi hotspot for up to 5 wi-fi units. That was the selling point for me. After 15 years with AT&T I am much happier with the coverage of Verizon.
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brobox
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02/06/12 02:58pm |
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RE: Nook Tablet vs Kindle Fire
Nook...Kindle...back and forth. Simple solution. Apple iPad
An iPad just to read a book :B :B
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brobox
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02/06/12 12:44pm |
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RE: Droid monitor
I just did a search for a lapdock for your phone and it looks like the Droid 2 might be a little outdated for that. Those are the closest to what you were looking for in something in a portable DVD player type screen. The newer phones will plug into anything that has an HDMI port, but the older phone are limited with the mini USB only port.
Lapdock
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brobox
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02/06/12 12:33pm |
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RE: DISH Pay-as-You-Go
My PM clearly says he had to get a factory upgrade on his VuQube 1000 to go from a two satellite auto mode to a four satellite auto motde in order to get full Dish HD programming. I've seen other threads here recently that do not make that distinction. Apparently older VuQube 1000 models are obsolete for Dish HD programming, but neither King Controls nor Dish have pointed that out on their web sites.
All of us that had very expensive domes on top of our RV's have had to upgrade for HD. Most of the dome manufactures also did not post on their web sites until recently that the domes did not receive HD.
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brobox
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02/06/12 06:07am |
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RE: DISH Pay-as-You-Go
Isn't technology great? In the old days we could point an antenna in the right direction and have TV. Now you have to know what equipment MATCHES for what you want to view. Tech reps are like the IRS...a different answer every time you call. In most cases you had better know the answer before you call.
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brobox
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02/06/12 05:54am |
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RE: Droid monitor
What model phone do you have? Not all smartphones are created equal. Some can connect to a wide screen TV others can't. Some have docking stations they can connect to, others don't. Tell us your model and I am sure the answers will appear.
Example of a lapdock for a Razr
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brobox
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02/06/12 05:33am |
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RE: Nook Tablet vs Kindle Fire
ReadyToGo,
"I go to two sources for my Kindle books which have over 400 free books available NEW each day"
Where might the rest of us find those sites? Thanks
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brobox
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02/05/12 08:14am |
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RE: Straight Talk (again!)
1775 was mostly right on.
I switched from AT&T that I had been with since they went into the wireless business when they bought Cingular. My phone was a GSM phone with 240 contacts.
I left AT&T as I found the more we traveled the worse the coverage was. My home area starting getting more dead spots than ever before. Calls to AT&T were answered with "we are working on it". After months of the same answer I switched to Verizon.
The switch was painless. I bought our phones at Costco where the agent took my old GSM phone and transferred all of my contacts to my new CDMA smartphone with their computer. As for "free mobile to mobile" after asking my long distance friends...I found most of them had switch a long time ago to Verizon. I had been calling them on my AT&T phone all of these years thinking it was free when actually I never went over my minutes, so I didn't know they had switched.
I couldn't be happier with the switch to Verizon and I can now drop my $60. a month aircard when we travel as the smartphone does that for the $30. a month data package.
Any "pay as you go" cell phones are going to be cheaper, but along with that comes your limitations.
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brobox
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02/05/12 06:27am |
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RE: phone app. storm warning
Are your referring to a smartphone? Android or iPhone? On the Android I am using an app from the Market...Raindar. Live radar, but I would have to check on the alarm ability. Great program for watching live radar as you travel down the highway.
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brobox
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02/04/12 05:58pm |
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RE: Straight Talk (again!)
AT&T is changing over to GSM. Seems GSM is used world wide and CDMA is on a downward trend. Even in the rural areas of Wyoming AT&T switched over to GSM when they bought out Alltel.
Sorry, but that information is 100% incorrect. AT&T has been on GSM since they entered the wireless market many years ago. CDMA is now the largest 4G LTE type phones in use in the US today. Hardly on a downward trend. Both of the new high dollar Motorola and Samsung phones are both CDMA phones.
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brobox
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02/04/12 03:32pm |
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RE: Nook Tablet vs Kindle Fire
My DW decide on the Kindle Fire for the one touch dictionary. Touch a word while you are reading and the definition pops up instantly. On the Nook is was a two click process, which was kind of a pain. Kindle fire won for that single reason. All of the authors she likes have their books on Kindle as well as Nook format on the library's web site, so the format has not been a problem at all.
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brobox
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02/04/12 03:22pm |
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RE: Android travelled through the washing machine!
Ebay refurbished $150. and $200.
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brobox
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02/02/12 06:19pm |
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RE: Upgrading Verizon aircard, porting # from ATT, Droid Razr
Congratulation! on the Razr. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I have mine. I learn more things it can do everyday.
I had a problem getting the discount "new customer" rate at Costco because I had a month to month aircard with Verizon last summer. Believe me Costco phone sales people are about as dumb as they come. I was also porting a number from AT&T, but use an aircard from Verizon for 2 months and Costco said no new customer discount. Put the phone in DW's name, got the discount, then went to Verizon a week later and had the phone put in my mane and applied for the military discount. Simple, but Costco had to make it hard.
Enjoy the Razr!
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brobox
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01/24/12 06:06pm |
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RE: Is there a safe way to remotely manage a home router?
We had this problem two years ago and solved it by putting the DSL modem and router on a timer. Every morning at 3:00 it turns the power off and then on to reboot and no more problems.
There is where the problem lies....if the router goes off anything connected to the router by wi-fi has to be reconfigured (reconnect) to work wireless again. That is why I haven't been to excited about connecting a slingbox to my Dish network...I live in the power outage capitol of the world and we travel for the 3 months at a time. Power is interrupted about once a week where I live, so the slingbox would probably not be working a week after we left, unless they reconfigure automatically. From what the OP said, it sounds like they do not once they loose the signal.
I am watching this post in hopes there is an answer as I would have the same problem as the OP's connecting a slingbox.
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brobox
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01/24/12 04:38am |
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RE: Directv
Call the campground office and see if they get NBC over the air signal in the park. If so, crank up the batwing...end of problem.
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brobox
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01/23/12 06:53pm |
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RE: New Droid Razr can tether without PDANet. UPDATE
Razr related .. New Razr MAXX on the way and more.. Read here.
It's that same phone just with a larger and thicker battery. It seems the kids that play games all day can't get a full days use out of their Razr batteries. I use my Razr quite a bit all day, checking news, weather, GPS and a few phone calls and finish the day with 60-70% battery remaining. For the heavy smartphone user the Maxx will be nice, For the normal user the thin, lighter weight Razr might be more to their liking.
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brobox
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01/22/12 06:37am |
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RE: Confession of a new Smartphone user
I also started with a Coby Droid Tablet that I rooted. As much as I liked it, I still couldn't do the travel things I learned I could do once I had the Droid tablet. Like the live radar app while traveling, satellite and TV finder, finding restaurants with the best ratings in a strange town since my tablet didn't have GPS. What is amazing with the phone is being able to take a picture or speak a question and get the history about where I am standing instantly. The big step up from my tablet is.....I am now the wi-fi instead of always looking for wi-fi to be able to do what I need right then. The tablet did open my eyes to the Droid Market and it was fun, but the smartphone is now 100% and for that, I am very pleased.
This post was sure not meant to intimidate anybody that is on a limited fixed
income, if it did I do apologize. I only wanted to express how pleasantly surprised I am with a smartphone after fighting getting one for so long.
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brobox
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01/22/12 06:23am |
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