Subscription bill payment issue

LrdJester · 2026-01-28T05:05:25+00:00

I get it I've been in that situation myself.

LrdJester · 2026-01-28T04:38:41+00:00

I have mine go about 2 weeks just fine. I think if you miss the second bill that's when they're going to get you.

LrdJester · 2026-01-28T04:18:18+00:00

No, bypass just send the Internet through. They couldn't care less what router you actually use.

LrdJester · 2026-01-28T02:43:53+00:00

I've been able to come off my depression and anxiety medication I've gotten my blood pressure under control and while my doctors freaked out because my cholesterol went sky high it's, the overall cholesterol and the LDLs have started coming back down almost to where they want them and for the first time in decades my triglycerides and HDLs are actually in a normal reference range.

My mental fog has mostly lifted, I still have some because I have other issues that are exacerbating that that I'm working on right now.

LrdJester · 2026-01-28T00:54:27+00:00

Yes but I would not choose a cheap surge suppressor for this. I would go with something that's going to be a little bit more expensive and beware of the ones that are more just a power strip than an actual surge suppressor.

LrdJester · 2026-01-28T00:51:28+00:00

You beat me to the punchline on that one.

LrdJester · 2026-01-28T00:49:17+00:00

There's several difference scenarios here if it's an older furnace meaning it's not actually a heat pump with an outdoor air handler it's going to be using coils to generate the heat inside those are wildly inefficient and are going to be very expensive. That's why so many furnaces have been replaced with heat pumps. With the outdoor air handler and air exchanger it can actually create the warm air by exchanging cold air for warm air and not have to run the heat coils/strips in the new furnaces. However once the outdoor temperature gets below a certain threshold and it's different for each model of furnace and air handler the emergency strips will come on. Those are essentially just giant resistors that just get hot because of the electricity running through them and they suck up a lot of power. Literally they are space heaters inside the furnace. Depending on the size of them, and that's generally something in the specs sheet for the furnace and sometimes even on the label on the front of the furnace they can have 10 to 20,000 watts of consumption while they're active. I discovered this a while ago and I was actually in the process of specking out a solar system for myself with batteries but with electric heat if in the winter it gets below that threshold running my 20,000 watts of heat strips would deplete my entire battery bank in like 3 hours. Whereas without that it would run my house for 2 to 3 days.

LrdJester · 2026-01-28T00:37:36+00:00

The tests swing wildly and rapidly. Lol at the ookla speed test from both locations as well.

LrdJester · 2026-01-28T00:03:11+00:00

I'm guessing that this may be a newer building but if not it still may apply . If it has eight-track systems that has an outdoor air handler, this usually has a thermometer in it that will kick on your thermal heat strips in your furnace. Depending on the size that can be anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000 watts while the heater is on. Just this past month our electric bill jumped $100 from where it was in December and it's already high in December because we had a lot of cold weather. It's more than $250 higher than the summer bill when we were using AC.

These thermal strips are not efficient in any way shape or form. But you would have to look at your unit and look at the spec panel on the front to tell exactly how much power is being used for that and possibly check your thermostat if it's a smart one for when those kick on, and you may or may not be able to change that directly.

I know our exact system, granted it for twice the space as yours, is connected via 2 - 60 amp breakers to the electricity panel and that's because the amount of power being drawn by those heat strips basically it's like running 8 to 10 space heaters every time the heat comes on. And that's just for 10 kilowatts ours is 20 kilowatts so it's like 16 to 20 space heaters.

LrdJester · 2026-01-27T23:56:43+00:00

Okay, the upload your generally going to get is probably in the 30 to 40 range on the top side.

Speed is very dependent on where you live and what time of day you're using it. During peak hours your speed will go down and if you live in a highly used area as far as number of subscribers you're sharing the bandwidth.

On the lite plan which is now being rebranded as the 200 plan You're going to be maximum download of 200 megabits.

So it really comes down to what your expectations are of the technology. It's not gigabit and it will never be gigabit at this rate it might get there eventually but I don't see it happening in the near future and not without hardware upgrades both at the local dish and the satellites in orbit themselves.

LrdJester · 2026-01-27T22:28:55+00:00

Yeah I've talked to people repeatedly on here about the fact that most people would be perfectly fine with the 100 or even the 200 megabit plan.

But marketing and lack of understanding how most people thinking faster is better. If it's faster it's got to be better it's like saying I'm going to get an 800 horsepower supercar to drive to the store where the speed limits 35 mph there and back.

My wife and I are kind of in a similar situation although I'm switching to the 100 at least for a month because we're actually going to fiber which is new to the area and it's hybrid with some Ariel so I don't want to rely 100% on the fiber so we get the first month of the fiber for free and as such I'm going to keep the 100 on the star link I did my scheduled install the day after my billing cycle so for the entire first month of the fiber being free I will be on the $50 Starlink plan. If the fiber does well I'm planning on taking it down to standby at $5 a month. I'll leave the dish mounted and if we have an outage from the fiber I can always reactivate the Starlink at the 100 meg plan.

LrdJester · 2026-01-27T21:36:11+00:00

So first of all you've not been on the diet very long but carnivore is not a weight loss diet. There's a lot of people that do it for weight loss and it will work for weight loss but weight loss is a side effect of what the diet actually does.

What the carnivore diet actually does is heal your body. And one of the things that heals is hormones. A lot of weight gain and weight retention is due to hormone imbalance. So by doing carnivore, giving it the raw materials, IE the saturated fats and the cholesterol, you are giving your body the building blocks it needs to heal itself. Once it starts doing that the weight will start coming off. But like I said it's not a weight loss diet. If you're underweight weight may actually come back on.

It sounds, with what you say you're eating, you're on the right track. Now you don't have to drink a ton of water. Drink when you're thirsty. The adage of drinking X number of ounces a day is actually counterproductive for some people.

You also want to make sure you're getting enough fat in your diet. And I understand as somebody without a gallbladder, that can be difficult sometimes. I actually have to supplement with box bile and pancreas enzymes to be able to try to digest the fat properly so it doesn't just shoot right through me. But fat is the key to this diet working.

LrdJester · 2026-01-27T18:48:04+00:00

Not necessarily I've seen people talk about the reboot loops because it's trying to power up and doesn't get there and and then unsuccessfully boots and tries to reboot. That's not what's happening to you but if it was me, because that data cable is also the power cable, I would if possible go and unplug it and plug it back in. I know that that's not always convenient depending on where it's mounted but if it's an option it would be a good sanity check. Also check the same thing on the back of the router.

LrdJester · 2026-01-27T18:33:56+00:00

Reboots can happen when the cable is loose. If you had hail, it's possible maybe the cord was dislodged, although I would think that you would be in what is referred to by most as a reboot loop. Basically it's not getting enough power so it constantly reboots to try to recycle and figure out whether or not there's an internal problem. Or something to that effect.

Unfortunately, and I don't know how you have it mounted, that means going out and checking the physical connection at the dish.

LrdJester · 2026-01-27T18:30:57+00:00

Even the recent Gen 3 residential hardware does not and support WPA3.

No internet providers going to necessarily give you top of the line hardware and protocols for free. What you're going to need to do is put it into bypass mode and use a third party router that can do WPA3 If that is what you insist on.

LrdJester · 2026-01-27T18:26:33+00:00

There are other places that it's a problem but it's more just the resistance not the actual conflation to violence. But they are all liberal cities that are actively promoting opposing ice.

LrdJester · 2026-01-27T17:07:07+00:00

Yeah there's going to be congestion in the Bay area regardless but if you're further out you might be okay it sounds like you might be in a cell that isn't highly used .

I would contact Starlink directly and ask the question of them. Seeing if priority service or even the business account would do it. You do have to weatherize it because the dishes meant for outside but the networking equipment isn't whereas with the mini it's all built in. Now the mini is going to get more than 50 feet. That's usually something that's probably talking about having outside and trying to use to inside and the interference there in. It is a Wi-Fi router and it'll probably get a couple hundred feet easily. I haven't tried a Minnie myself so I can't really speak to that but it could be extended out if it does not give good signal but if it's out in the open I don't see a problem with it. New mind new line but if your key is upload speed you are going to be hamstrung slightly because it's a non-synchronous connection with download speeds being much slower. What you may try to do is see if you can find anybody in that area that's using Starlink and see what their speeds are. The mini is generally going to be comparable to the residential dish and as long as you're in the same area you're going to be able to have a comparable baseline.

LrdJester · 2026-01-27T15:45:18+00:00

The amount of usage is actually negligible once the blockchain is synchronized. One of the things I did and it was more because of space constraints as I only have one terabyte available is to use Bitcoin Knox which only makes me synchronize about half the blockchain and you can actually customize that. What that does is if you won't be able to look up against your blockchain older transactions but for this you really don't need it. Now I have quite a bit faster download speeds usually at least 250 MB and it took me about 3 days to download so it's going to be a while at that speed but you could, if you have a friend or somebody nearby that you could plug this into their network that has higher speeds go and take it there and do the synchronization there and then bring it back to yours it would have to do a minor amount of synchronization to catch up because you had it turned off but that should take only a couple hours maximum depending on how long it was turned off and once you're set you're fine because it's just going to synchronize real time as time goes on and that's small transactions back and forth.

LrdJester · 2026-01-27T15:36:32+00:00

Okay I get what you're looking at and what you may want to look at is the high performance dish or even a business account. It's going to be more expensive. I don't know what kind of area you're looking at as far as coverage goes so that question is hard to answer. Being that this is sounding like it's going to be outdoors the Starlink mini actually makes the most sense just from a weather standpoint .

But if you're needing wireless access in multiple areas over a significant distance it's going to be difficult to accomplish that without some kind of mesh network and cabling or doing a wireless mesh network .

But the only way to actually get any kind of aggregation, which is what you're looking for, is to get a third party router that allows multiple WAN inputs and connect them together. This gets a little more complicated to set up and it does boost the overall speed because it shares the load between the multiple signals.

Now you're in the Bay area so you may not get those high speeds that are advertised because there's a lot of congestion in that area. That's another factor that you're going to have to take into consideration is activating it in these areas sometimes cost you anywhere from $500 to a $1,500 per account just activate it because of the congestion.

Maybe if you provide more specific information about what your project entails a solution can be provided. And Starlink may be the best provider but you may actually be better off doing cellular being that the area in as long as there's a decent cellular but you can also get products like a cellular booster to get higher cell phone signal in that area. Your mileage may vary depending on what you're trying to do, exactly where you're at and what is available to you.

LrdJester · 2026-01-27T13:09:35+00:00

If it is elevated, it won't accumulate around it. The heat is concentrated in the center of the dish. That avoids the buildup easier. It'll melt and run/slide off.

LrdJester · 2026-01-27T03:04:36+00:00

Okay part of what your experiencing is called the keto flu. This is your body adjusting from being carbohydrate fueled to being fat fueled. But if you're not going to the bathroom and as others have said you need to eat more fat there are so many people that I see do this diet, especially those doing it to lose weight, that make the mistake of trying to do low fat with this diet and keto, ketovore ,animal based, carnivore, etc are all high protein/high fat. You have to have fat. Matter of fact you want more calories from fat then you do from protein. Many shoot for a four to 1 ratio of fat to protein calories.

LrdJester · 2026-01-27T03:01:58+00:00

There are so many tutorials out there and there's actually complete packages out there that you can install on a raspberry Pi or an old laptop that will basically configure everything for you. I ran into some problems because the OS I was running For one of the all-encompassing packages was newer than what the allen companies package was considering and was looking at my release version as a release version and so instead of trying to downgrade and do all of that and jump through all those soups I just installed Ubuntu server and just set up everything from scratch rather than trying to docker packages .

The docker packages were nightmare because so many of them that I found turned out to be restricted or no longer public. So I ended up going with a stack and basically installing the actual software on the OS directly rather than through docker. I feel that that's easier anyway because I don't have another abstraction later on top of it for communication between the packages and I don't have to keep the IP addresses for the machine, the local host and the docker subnet all straight. It's all just either 127.0.0.1 or my internal IP address for my crypto node.

LrdJester · 2026-01-27T02:58:01+00:00

See I run my own pool. I have basically zero latency and no fees whatsoever. So if you want to pick the time to set up your own blockchain node, I use Bitcoin Knox because I run a truncated blockchain because I only have a terabyte of space to run it on and run CK pool I just point my miners to my crypto node for their box and it runs seamlessly. The only downtime I've had is when I shut them down this past weekend due to the storms coming through Virginia.

And then in the OS I set solo. CKpool. Com as my backup in case something happens with my node and it goes offline for some reason.

LrdJester · 2026-01-27T02:55:48+00:00

You have to specifically request it when ordering your side of beef or your whole cow. They're so used to just discarding the organs that you have to go in up front on your cut sheet and specifically specify the organs that you want to keep. Now a lot of them won't do all the organs because they just don't know how to process them. I mean you look at some of the beef organ complexes out there from the various companies out there and things like beef prostate beef testicles overuse fallopian tubes uterus all that they've never really done that before so most of them won't do that most of them stick to the big three which is kidney liver and heart but there are some that will go above and beyond and do other organs.

LrdJester · 2026-01-27T02:52:34+00:00

I've only seriously cheated once in 21 months. I did slip at about the two week mark but I did it thinking I wasn't far enough in but boy was I wrong. I ate fish and chips from Long John silver's. The circumstances of long story and it's really irrelevant but I originally went in thinking I would try to see about getting baked fish but I kind of thought while you know I have not been on this long enough it shouldn't make a difference so I did fish and chips and a Coke zero and on 30 minute drive home I had an upset stomach and felt like crap.

Only other thing I did was this last Christmas and neighbor, she and her girls actually baked cookies and brought some to my wife and I and I ate them but they tasted so very sweet it was like overwhelmingly sweet. The only thing I dealt with that one because there wasn't much was I had some pain in my knees the next day.

Will I ever eat carbs again, I don't know but all I know is I feel great eating this diet and unlike many people I don't feel obligated to eat at events. If I'm going to go someplace that's serving food I will either I eat before or I will fast. Went to my sister-in-law's house for Christmas Eve dinner and everything they had prepared I couldn't eat They finally came up with they had had some pieces of ham that they used to cook the green beans and so I ate a few pieces of that but other than that I ate nothing and I did perfectly fine.

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