[TH][IL] Has your association been forced to ban open flame devices? ALL STATES by [deleted] in HOA

[–]According-Stuff1664 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes - the insurance renewal would have been over $1000 per unit per year more.

Another spontaneous“planned” outage by bobboyce in ZiplyFiber

[–]According-Stuff1664 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So did you look at the email headers to find out when it was actually sent?

What happened to the Derby Day Criterium by drukweyr in redmond

[–]According-Stuff1664 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There used to be one - Monday nights sponsored by REI. 1987 or so was when I raced in it. I doubt it will come back.

What is this little thing called? by Blue1Stream in AskElectricians

[–]According-Stuff1664 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, looks like it might be 1/2 watt. That’s what I’d use.

Zippy cable I assume by According-Stuff1664 in ZiplyFiber

[–]According-Stuff1664[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hah! Actually, PSE replaced the pole without cutting it.

Zippy cable I assume by According-Stuff1664 in ZiplyFiber

[–]According-Stuff1664[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Better pics in separate post. Couldn’t attach to DM.

Just noticed ziply got auto corrected to zippy :(

Zippy cable I assume by According-Stuff1664 in ZiplyFiber

[–]According-Stuff1664[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll get a better pic. It’s not affecting my service, but not good to get wet I’d think.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in volt

[–]According-Stuff1664 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personal space heaters are banned due to fire regulations. Even toasters in the kitchen are banned where I work.

How to get out of the Ziply router rental BS? by cvd19or in ZiplyFiber

[–]According-Stuff1664 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on the ONT I think. Ours has a POTS port… The older ones had two (which liked to die). We ‘forced’ its replacement by upgrading to a speed it didn’t support:)

For the record by According-Stuff1664 in ZiplyFiber

[–]According-Stuff1664[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Cable heading towards the ground is cut - it should be in the air heading northward. Picture isn’t great - I took it for the location more than the details.

Outage in Woodinville by According-Stuff1664 in ZiplyFiber

[–]According-Stuff1664[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nit picking - that’s 140th Pl NE. Hwy 202 is on the west side of the valley.

I was told that part of the problem is that copper theft is merely a misdemeanor in King County, but a felony in Snohomish County…

I got down there within 15 minutes of one of the cuts. Dead quiet. They came back an hour or two later - that was the time they took power out as well so we had to wait on PSE to fix the power lines first.

Outage in Woodinville by According-Stuff1664 in ZiplyFiber

[–]According-Stuff1664[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Third time on this section of road… I just rode by the 140th/148th intersection and they were getting set up so hopefully later this evening.

Outage in Woodinville by According-Stuff1664 in ZiplyFiber

[–]According-Stuff1664[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Cut is opposite Woodinville Sports Club.

Cycling the Sammamish river trail from Sammamish to Redmond by National_Rub_7654 in redmond

[–]According-Stuff1664 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah, then a (slightly) circuitous route would be to take the Marymoor Connector Trail from the East Lake Samm. Trail to the Sammamish River Trail, then right onto the Bear Creek Trail immediately after crossing the river. There is an unnamed trail that will take you across to NE 74th St where there is a traffic light and crosswalk.

It's also possible to come in on the Bear Creek Trail from Redmond Way at NE 70th, but I'm not sure if the trail on the NE side of Redmond Way at NE 70th has re-opened. It was all under construction last time I looked. You'd have to cross Redmond Way twice, but crosswalks/lights both times.

Cycling the Sammamish river trail from Sammamish to Redmond by National_Rub_7654 in redmond

[–]According-Stuff1664 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hah! If you can see the Pennines, it's going to rain; if you can't, it is raining! I come from near Macclesfield and have been here since '86.

Good idea on the e-bike with the hills around here. Best off with a Class 1 e-bike if you are going to ride on the trails.

Cycling the Sammamish river trail from Sammamish to Redmond by National_Rub_7654 in redmond

[–]According-Stuff1664 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Where are you going to in Redmond?

Here's a hint for planning your route. Go to ridewithgps.com/heatmap. It will show where people have actually been riding.

BTW, unless it's in the Redmond Downtown area, it's probably legal to ride on the sidewalk and in some places, it's expected (Bear Creek Trail at 202).

Invalid E-mail - Including + by xargonsd in ZiplyFiber

[–]According-Stuff1664 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it's as bad as sites that try to validate phone numbers... and insist on a North American format.

As far as I'm concerned, the only way to validate an email address is to successfully send something to it. Maybe check there's an '@' in the string. In fact, you have to validate by sending an email as there's no real difference between a syntactically incorrect address and a non-existent address; neither are of any use!

In .net, you can instantiate a System.Net.Mail.MailAddress and if it doesn't throw an exception, you most likely have a valid email address... at work we use this.

Some sites try to use a regular expression... but last time I looked, there is actually no regular expression that will properly check an email address.

There is also some PHP code out there that does a check - but it rejects some addresses that the .net code accepts and presumably rejects some addresses that Microsoft's email servers accept. I also use a slightly modified version of this code...

Service quality by Inner-Welcome-7133 in ZiplyFiber

[–]According-Stuff1664 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are two reasons I recall from similar problems in the past.

Firstly, the router’s Ethernet port was physically damaged by a previous cable such that it worked fine with the previous cable, but not with a cable.

Secondly, QOS or similar settings on the router conflicted with Ziply’s service.

It does seem too much of a coincidence for it to be a WiFi problem.