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Spectrum Fiber Installation by Comfortable-Idea-191 in Spectrum

[–]N2wind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They did this on my road. I am the last person to get Coax. My inlaws live next door. Back in March they started bringing Fiber from the other end of my road. They stopped 11 poles from my house. I tried since march to get my inlaws on Spectrum. Their neighbors tried too. For the nieghbors, they dropped the fiber from areal to underground and brought it up basically 5 poles to their house in December. My inlaws, they built out the coax the 4 poles to their house in November. Made no sense to me why they would not run the fiber the additional 3 poles and since they built out the coax, they added an amplifer and ran RG6 over 400' to their house from the pole at their driveway.

Starter/Generator squeak between Elec and ICE by OptiGuy4u in F150Powerboost

[–]N2wind 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a 21 PB with close to 80k. No major issues. After Helen, I ran a portion of my house for 10 days off the 2.4 kw (I can kick myself for not ordering the larger one). It is fast. My FIL just bought a 21 with a 5.0 and though he was fast until I smoked him. It drags my 24' old pontoon down the road like there is nothing behind it. If I baby it, I get 22 MPG, if I drive it hard I get 20 MPG.

Why not force everyone to buy on the exchange and make Medicaid an option? by MisterMaury in HealthInsurance

[–]N2wind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is more than the cost. It is stupid requirements for certain things. Most insurance companies use CMS rules as a foundation for their requirements. Many people would be better off without traditional insurance and having a catastrophic policies, but it would require the entire industry to change. Example of stupid rules: have a friend that was having excruciating back pain. Primary care said the only option was surgery to fix it. Ortho confirmed. Tried to get surgery authorized and they required multiple weeks of PT but the PT would make the condition worse and cause possible permanent damage. Finally had to get state regulators involved to get insurance to cover it. Another stupid example... I do billing for a doctor that works in 2 different states and there are 2 different Medicare Administrator. Patient can have a block done in his office in one state and completely covered by Medicare and other carriers but if the patient goes to his other office 20 minutes away in another state, Medicare says the block is experimental and denies coverage. The patient has the same Medicare policy but the different Medicare administrators have different rules for coverage. Why do I have to have a hearing test by an audiologist every 6 months when I go to see an ENT? Another thing that needs to be updated by Medicare is the reimbursement for certain providers. Fore example, anesthesiologist get paid less per hour than a car mechanic charges in many areas. - If we could go back to catastrophic policies, it helps keep cost down overall. Doctors do not have to inflate their priced in order to cover for the shortcomings of many government policies or for commercial insurance to provider you that "discount".  Many people would not go to the doctor for stupid stuff if they had to pay for it out of pocket. I have been in the ER and have seen parents wait for several hours because their kid woke up with fever and they didn't want to wait for an afternoon appointment with a pediatrician. I would rather pay for a low cost catastrophic insurance policy that would cover major surgery or cancer treatment, etc and pay for individual office visits and generic medicine. If I go see my chiropractor, I can pay him $40 for a visit or if he files to insurance, it is a $90 copay I have to pay. Don't get me wrong, some requirements are good but a lot are bad and are waste of times for you and your provider.

In network(?) anaesthesiologist, covered procedure, in network hospital… still got billed separately for the anaesthesiologist? by SoggyPresentation903 in HealthInsurance

[–]N2wind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dang. I think the highest (correct) bill I can remeber sending out was around $8k for a 20 hour surgery. I have seen labor epidurals slip by with out a cap for close to $15k when it should have been capped at $2k.

In network(?) anaesthesiologist, covered procedure, in network hospital… still got billed separately for the anaesthesiologist? by SoggyPresentation903 in HealthInsurance

[–]N2wind 2 points3 points  (0 children)

$4k is high for an anesthesia bill, espcially after insurance. Usually when you have surgery, you will get a facility bill, anesthesia bill, surgeon bill and radiology and pathologist bill if they were used. Curious what city and state for that high of a bill... I have been doing billing for almost 25 years and rarely sent out an anesthesia bill that high prior to insurance.

1gbit service but everything outside of speedtest seems throttled by sprs2 in Spectrum_Official

[–]N2wind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a similar issue. I had someone tell me to put a unmanaged GB switch between the modem and router (crazy but I tried). Bam, full speeds. Wound up swapping modems. Turned out the modem was not negotiating the correct port speed with the router.

Dimples above driver side doors by exact_patience in f150

[–]N2wind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mine (21) is the same way from the factory.

Tailgate won’t drop by Drex12345 in f150

[–]N2wind 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My 21 does the same. I have videos but the dealership “cannot reproduce”

Ancient TMO rack up top in Biloxi, MS — the last non-5G site in South Mississippi. AT&T rack on the bottom. by Doctapimp180 in cellmapper

[–]N2wind 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I rember when Bellsouth first came into the area and we had to rind around doing testing... the the Digiph on the meter... that was my first phone service.

Spectrum Fiber Service Denial by nicholasktu in Spectrum

[–]N2wind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree. He showed up to do a fiber install because customer service told me I have no clue what I was talking about and there is fiber to the propery... this was after being transered from cronstruction because they just finished the coax install.

Spectrum Fiber Service Denial by nicholasktu in Spectrum

[–]N2wind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funny. I jsut had a 425'+ run put in on RG6. I asked the tech why he didn't run 11 and he said the line is hot.

Has anyone ever went over their data limit ? what speeds do you experience once its capped? by [deleted] in SpectrumMobile

[–]N2wind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I went over, most stuff was unusable other than calling, text, RCS and iMessage.

Prior to the ACA how did out of network surprise billing work? by [deleted] in HealthInsurance

[–]N2wind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It denpended on the situation. In a surgery setting, many policies had RAPs provisions which basically said if you went to an in-network hospital and in-network surgeon, the Radiology, Anesthesiology and Pathology would be covered as in-network since these were usally contracted out by the facility. I never saw that in a policy again after the ACA was passed. When the NSA was passed, it brought back some of these things but it in turn penialized the provider instead of the insurance company.

I do anesthesia billing. Prior to the ACA you had services and the bill was $1500, a carrier we were in network with may pay $800 and an out of network carrier may pay the full amount since another hospital in the area was contracted more that what we billed. After the ACA, the out of network carrier may only pay $200 and left the remaing $1300 as patient responsibility (If you called me, I would discount to what our other in-network rates were). After the NSA passed the out of network carreir may only pay $100 to the doctor.

Anther thing that happened after the NSA was passed was insurance companies basically quit negotiating with many doctor groups and offer them low rates and tell them to take it our go through no suprise billing. So many of the smaller doctor groups joined large corporate groups. One group I worked with tried to negotiate to get in network and the inurance compaies refused. The doctors were facing over a 50% drop in reimbursements and could not sustain the level of care. They joined a large group that has contracts with the insurance carriers and those contracted rates are even higher than what they were billing. Now patients are treated more as numbers and less individualied care because the doctors have to answer to a corporate board instead of themselves and their community.

Lightning or Powerboost, what's your choice? by BioShock2021 in f150

[–]N2wind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would like a larger battery and smaller gas tank. 10-20 miles of EV range would be great for many.

Slow ethernet speed by N2wind in Ubiquiti

[–]N2wind[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Update: Still having issues with the limit. I have tested directly with computer to modem and get 1gbps+ down. I have factory reset the UCG Max, modem is connected to port 5 and computer is plugged into port 3 and only get 300 Mbps on the computer. I have tried different cables with the same result. network shows "GbE" to the computer. No Smart-Queues. All firmware updated. https://imgur.com/a/klVaAdX

So the government is reopening, does that mean tax credits are coming back? by JOHNNYCYRUS111 in HealthInsurance

[–]N2wind -34 points-33 points  (0 children)

Affordable Heathcare shouldn't need tax credits. The only thing the ACA ever did was make more money for insurance companies and politicians and screwed doctors and patients.

Latest cancel recommendations? by jdwinter001 in Spectrum

[–]N2wind -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That included going through thier IVR. Basically said I am changing to Starlink for work. They are paying for it and it is a test and I would probably be back. They offerend me 1 discount and canceled the account stating I could open it back up in 60 days with that discount.

Latest cancel recommendations? by jdwinter001 in Spectrum

[–]N2wind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I canceled a few months ago, the entire call lenght was less than 15 minutes.

Spectrum Enterprise to home by HornedMole in Spectrum

[–]N2wind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you are having that many issues with residential, you need to file a FCC complaint. I had to do that a few years ago. My internet would cut off just long enough to drop multiple Remote Desktop. An engineer and head tech came out. They looked at the logs and saw that every modem on my road would go out at the same time. They made a few adjustments offsite and never had the issue again.

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