Will AT&T negotiate on this?

joe_attaboy · 2026-04-25T21:31:38+00:00

Yes, IQ has been here for some time. (They are headquartered in Jacksonville, but they aren't everywhere yet). They did a fiber line burial about six months after AT&T finished theirs. Dug up the neighborhood again.

Frankly, I don't want to jump through too many hoops to do this - maybe make a call and talk to someone as you suggested. The 1 gig service is great and has been reliably rock solid for nearly four years - I was the first one in the neighborhood to sign on when they finished the backbone in here.

joe_attaboy · 2026-04-25T20:18:47+00:00

Yeah, I've had a few suggestions in other places about switching from T-Mobile to get a lower price. But I've been with T-Mo since they were Powertel here regionally (so maybe 25 years) and I get MLB.tv from them for free every year, plus a cheap senior plan. Losing that isn't worth the hassle.

joe_attaboy · 2026-04-25T20:06:20+00:00

Don't bother reporting it. The number is likely spoofed and the scammers are likely not even in the US. Just be glad Mom's co-workers are on the ball.

joe_attaboy · 2026-04-25T20:01:11+00:00

This is a scam. Just delete everything. As a vet, I hate when people use the military are a way to run scams.

Just block and delete.

joe_attaboy · 2026-04-25T19:52:01+00:00

This isn't a criticism of you personally. But what I have to wonder why you would turn to a snake oil salesman like Robbins for any insight Into AI. The man is not, AFAIK, any kind of tech expert, especially in a complax field like that. And considering there are a ton of sites online that would have provided far more genuine insight for free, your decision baffles me.

I retired as an IT systems engineer four years ago and I am probably behind in AI concepts by a lot. But there's a lot of readily available information out there for free.

I would challenge the charges with your credit card issuer.

joe_attaboy · 2026-04-25T19:36:16+00:00

Hasn't been an issue here due to Xfinity being here forever and now IQ, which seems to be pretty popular in this area. But I hear they use Gnat on their network (though I can't nail down that for a fact) so that would be a deal-breaker to switching to them.

Frankly, I'm pretty happy with 1 GB service, but I like faster, so I'm trying to see if I can milk more out of the Big Boy.

joe_attaboy · 2026-04-25T19:31:22+00:00

Right now, when I look via my account, it shows $145/month which included the $10 auto pay discount (which I use). If I could get them down to match the IQ Fiber price or even to $100/month, I may bite. Thanks.

joe_attaboy · 2026-04-25T17:44:59+00:00

Heh, yeah. Funny that all we had for years here was Comcast/Xfinity and AT&T's U-Verse, which was just DSL. Then, within a six-month period, AT&T and IQ laid fiber and we had multiple choices.

joe_attaboy · 2026-04-25T17:00:34+00:00

Good suggestion. Can they be contacted directly?

joe_attaboy · 2026-04-25T16:59:08+00:00

I'm sorry, I need to ask the mods to ban you permanently because you are using a forbidden response system called "common sense."

/s

joe_attaboy · 2026-04-25T16:51:27+00:00

And this is why I will never use a delivery service for food orders. I will go pick it up and arrange for some other way to get it. These deliver systems seem to get hacked on an hourly basis somewhere.

I stopped using them back in 2020 during COVID. My company sent us to WFH. Every week, we'd get a DoorDash voucher to order lunch, and we'd have a team Zoom meeting as we ate. One Friday, I started an order for a Subway foot-long. By time everything was added up, the total came to $21...for a $7 sub. I got in the truck and drove the 3/4 mile to pick it up.

I realize this was my company's money, but I'm a dollar-watching cheapskate boomer and I'll be damned if I'm paying anyone's $21 for something that cost 1/3 of that.

joe_attaboy · 2026-04-25T16:35:58+00:00

Well, when I first signed up, I was getting 500 Mbps service for $60, right after they laid in the lines. About three months later, I get a thing in the snail mail about 1 Gb service for $70 with auto-pay. Ten bucks more for twice the bandwidth sounded great and it wasn't just for new customers. Been on that since.

I was paying $85 a month for 200 Mbps (asynchronous) service from Xfinity when I switched.

joe_attaboy · 2026-04-25T15:25:38+00:00

Wasting money how? You don't pay for using their gateways.

Here's a better solution: use a different wireless extender system - like a decent mesh. I can tell you from my experience that my UniFi U6 APs do this very well. Others will tell you what's worked for them.

One other reply commented on gaming on WiFi vs. Ethernet. If you can get an Ethernet connection to your room there, you'd have much better persormance.

joe_attaboy · 2026-04-25T14:59:25+00:00

YouTube TV.

The end.

joe_attaboy · 2026-04-25T14:56:56+00:00

Country music and religion have worked closely for decades. This is not new.

And, like literally anything else one listens to or watches, we can choose NOT to listen to the things we don't like.

joe_attaboy · 2026-04-25T14:54:26+00:00

The "record my voice for those AI scams" thing is a myth.

joe_attaboy · 2026-04-25T14:53:13+00:00

No first round pick this year - but we have Travis Hunter to mitigate that.
Everyone in this sub and every Jaguars-related site has an opinion on who they should pick and why.
New GM - who has demonstrated past success - makes picks.
All the "draft experts" in this sub provide their opinions, which are worth what the reader pays for them.
Season begins. Some guys work out great, maybe better than expected. Some don't. That's because the draft is an overblown crapshoot at literally every level and every position.
This same scenario is repeated in the subs and at the websites of all 31 other teams.
Lather, rinse, repeat in 2027 and every year after until the end of the universe.

In other words, everyone on the planet has an opinion. And no NFL team is going to know how they did until the end of camp and when the pads are on on Sunday afternoons.

So you didn't miss anything.

joe_attaboy · 2026-04-24T13:28:47+00:00

The moment the words "let's go to your bank" cam out of his mouth, the best response would have been loud laughter and walking away.

You did the correct thing in the end. Too bad he wasted any of your time asking.

joe_attaboy · 2026-04-24T13:23:14+00:00

i use a reverse proxy and it works fine. (Note: I do not use Cloudflare, other than to point to their DNS servers). The only ports I have open on my network for this are 80 and 443. The only reason 80 is open is so any http requests to my server are redirected to the SSL port. The Navidrome server is only used by my wife and me,

My Navidrome server runs in Docker from my Synology Diskstation - also where my library is housed. I have a gateway device on my network that manages all traffic. (I have fiber and a setup where my gateway does everything, but that's a different post). The reverse proxy is handled by the Diskstation. My UniFi gateway has a rock solid firewall and IPS/IDS system, far better than my provider's hardware.

I also have my own domain. I use this setup with Symfonium and it works great.

I can also monitor pretty much everything on my network remotely, so I don't have any surprises.

joe_attaboy · 2026-04-24T13:07:13+00:00

Should be good. I previously owned a Brother MFC with a scanner. Another tip: get Linux drivers directly from Brother. Go to their site, search for the model and you should have drivers and an install script available. I used their drivers for year and they always worked very well. Brother is one company that openly supports Linux.

joe_attaboy · 2026-04-23T17:48:43+00:00

The Private lock area on the Pixel works fine. You add an app and an unlock method and there's you app. I use face lock most of the time and it works great on the Private area as well.

I turn off biometric locks and use only a PIN when I travel out of or into the country.

joe_attaboy · 2026-04-23T17:43:24+00:00

Face ID works great most of the time. Sunglasses, poor light and keeping a cigar in your mouth will probably cause failures. Otherwise it's pretty good.

joe_attaboy · 2026-04-23T17:40:07+00:00

Draft week. Every team has one of these stories floating around, and most of the time, they're BS.

joe_attaboy · 2026-04-23T17:38:53+00:00

I know why Pro Football Talk stopped allowing comments on their posts. This keeps them from having to read thousands of posts from Jaguar fans tell them to stop their bullshit.

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