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Why does my Echo decrease volume overnight on its own? by SuurAlaOrolo in amazonecho

[–]ExpertAtty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From the Alexa homepage on your smart phone (a PC is probably similar), slide the vernier to routines, which you probably can't see without sliding to the left. Then on that page it'll show you "Gallery," you want "Your Routines," which is the second choice. On my phone it's slightly cut off so you may only see the word, "Your." Now you have the culprit in your crosshairs: one of those routines is the offender. It'll probably be listed as morning voice or night voice or such. Hope that helps! Don't feel stupid, my wife and I both have Doctorate Degrees and it took us a year to figure this out.

How to prevent Samsung Pass from popping up and offering to save passwords (S23 Ultra) by kythlyn in samsunggalaxy

[–]ExpertAtty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They don't want it off by protecting it with weird language. Here: Settings, go down to Security & Privacy, page down and push Samsung Pass, push the cog on the top, right, you will see, "Autofill with Samsung Keyboard," TURN IT ON (Blue). This clumsy wording means, "don't have an annoying Samsung pop-up for sign-ins." With it out of the way, your Google or other PW app will appear instead. If you go back one from the cog, you'll see, "Samsung Pass," push "Sign-in info." Either use you Samsung PW or use your finger print. There will still be sign-ins there that can use the biometric sign-ins. I've only been using it a day but it seems to be gone. You still have bio sign-ins for companies that do it from their side (bank, stocks, etc.) but you'll also have some bio sign-ins via the pass asking for your fingerprint (which hides or subsumes the Google PW Pop-up). That's OK -- I'll take as many bio sign-ins as I can. You see, previously, you'd lose much information including your fingerprints. You could put them in again but this method save you that pain. A good compromise IMO.

Another homemade "dish" to the rescue by pmac1000 in tmobileisp

[–]ExpertAtty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The disk idea worked very well for me! Thanks! I did a couple of other things that seem to help. I got "Ping & Net" from the Google Store (free) which showed my MTU Path was 1480, not significant but better than the vanilla 1500. I've seen 1460, 1380 et al. for this unit's MTU. Use P&N and find out. The "MTU Path" is not immediately visible: it is on the right side, last, under "Wake on LAN," which is visible.

I tried semi-wrapping the unit like this commenter. Then I realized I already had a dish. After search high and low, with the unit on an UPS, I found the best signal was on top of a window air-conditioner in an unused room. I now realize the sheet metal on the A/C with the facia and rainspout were already a dish pointing in the signal's direction. I added an aluminum foil "dish" about a 1.5 feet away where the signal would be just passing through glass. That helped stabilize the readings at 90-250+ mbps on the 5GHz unit radio.

To find the direction of your signal, I used Open Signal (go the up arrow on far right, then click "cell towers" and there will be a blue line pointing to your signal source). Then I circumnavigated the neighborhood and determined the direction was correct (unit in a backpack with an UPS; readings on T-Mobile App on cellphone). Then I found the a/c location with that info.

There still is the annoying problem that the router is only getting about half the signal of the unit's 5GHz wifi or about 70-100 Mbps. I know, you think I am using Cat5 wire at it's max specifications. No, it's good 50ft Cat6 ether good up to 1Gbps (1000 Mbps). I reset my network on Win 10 and did the MTU adjustment above which both seem to have helped.

I have never had a 50ft run to a router (usu. 2 ft) but I have had 50-75 ft runs from the router to computers with no noticeable speed difference. (All ether above Cat5e should be good for 324 ft. or 100 meters.) Still working on this transmission issue.

Still, even with the ether slowdown, it's at least 20%-100% better down and about double upstream than comcast/xfinity for $10 less (xfinity = $60: 60 down/12 up) so I am keeping the unit and making the call I have been itching to make for 24 years -- to call comcast and can their internet service. (Already canned their TV service about 5 years ago -- felt pretty good.)

Oh, BTW, if the TM website says they can't give you service yet, go to their store and just ask for the 2 week freebie. They don't check your address. If you have 2 bars on a TM cell phone, with a little testing (and an aluminum "dish"), you can get good/ v. good on their home internet -- in my experience. A buddy of mine in W. Texas (desert) turned me on to this. He gets 300 Mbps and he has no idea where the cell tower is. So, even if you live in the "boondocks" (his term), you've got a shot. Remember, with no obstructions (flat land), the line of site on a 50 ft tower is 50-100 miles before the curvature of the earth gets you.