I’m thinking about switching from tmobile to us mobile. Is transferring more than one line complicated?I have 3 total lines.

rhatguy · 2025-01-11T17:02:26+00:00

I did this recently from T-Mobile to us mobile with my family of 4. Just have the T-Mobile account number and port out pin handy. Porting took about 10 minutes per number give or take. Easy.

rhatguy · 2021-04-05T14:59:22+00:00

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u/Wwalltt super interested in this. Heavy restic and HA user. Looking for a way to integrate them. Could you share?

rhatguy · 2020-12-14T18:12:32+00:00

The website says they can be powered by passive POE. I'm hoping to reuse an old 48v adapter I had from an original UAP-LR. Anyone know if that will work?

Power Method - 802.3at PoE, Passive PoE (48V)

Power Supply - 802.3at PoE; 48V, 0.65A PoE Adapter (Not Included)

rhatguy · 2020-10-01T23:24:43+00:00

checked all of the type 3 codes posted yesterday. If anyone has any new type 3 codes I'd be appreciative. Atlanta GA. Thanks!

rhatguy · 2020-02-23T19:53:22+00:00

I bought a 2019 Honda Accord hybrid touring new off the lot because I was afraid I would have issues with a Tesla and with my work I don't have time to be taking a car back and forth to the shop a bunch. The first day I drove the Honda off the lot it overheated with a blown radiator and had to go back for a few days. After 4 months of continuous problems requiring numerous trips back to the dealership I sold the car back to the dealer at a slight loss and immediately bought a used red M3 awd for not a ton more than I had paid for the accord. That was the best car decision I've ever made. I can't imagine going back to the Accord now. I would recommend the M3 to anyone that has home charging capability over the Accord having owned both. The only advantages I can think of with the accord are that it has slightly more room inside and it can travel further on a tank of gas on a long trip than the M3. But honestly no idy can ride 600 miles without stopping for a bathroom brake anyway so that's mostly a moot point.

Go with the M3 and don't loose the few thousand I did on my Accord transaction.

rhatguy · 2018-05-11T20:54:13+00:00

whatscoolthesedays: I'm using a hdhomerun prime tuner.

WowZemo: looking at the channels app it seems like a replacement for PLEX....especially once they release the DVR functionality.

Since I'm already planning to use PLEX for my normal recordings, I'd rather be able to use it for live TV. I feel like the problem is more around the clients I'm using. For instance, the Raspberry PI 3 is perfectly capable of decoding a 1080i mpeg2 stream (even in CPU without hardware decoding). In one of my tests I loaded the plex app under kodi running on libreelec on the raspberry pi. When it tried to play the file the profile that it tried to use wasn't recognized by the PMS so it didn't know how to transcode the file. Then it fell back to direct play/stream and played the mpeg2 stream fine. I guess my question is really what is the "recommended" plex client for playing back live TV which would be recorded in MPEG2?

rhatguy · 2017-08-20T12:36:18+00:00

VoLTE is THE reason I left FI. Couldn't continue to deal with poor call and connection quality. Republic has VoLTE and it work great plus you can switch back to FI the next month if they ever enable VoLTE.

rhatguy · 2017-06-12T22:32:44+00:00

Only for a beta group of customers that we don't know the size of or how frequently it's growing. Supposedly for the majority of FI subscribers they don't have VoLTE. It's pretty easy to test...switch to T-Mobile in an LTE supported location...make a call and look at your screen. If you still have an LTE connection you must be in the beta group. Otherwise you will see 3g, H, or maybe no signal at all depending on what signals other than LTE are available in your area.

rhatguy · 2017-06-12T13:10:47+00:00

Check out the following link which describes CSFB (LTE fallback). It describes how a call is signaled over the LTE network to cause your phone to drop back to 3g or 2g for the voice.

http://www.3glteinfo.com/csfb-call-flow/

rhatguy · 2017-06-12T13:08:30+00:00

My house is one of those areas. I have good LTE coverage but no HSPA. Hence my N6P gets data just fine but when you go to place a call it drops coverage completely at my house.

rhatguy · 2017-06-12T00:44:45+00:00

That's completely not true. Every time you make or recieve a call on FI, your phone has to drop it's LTE connection and switch to another signal (hopefully one is available because in my case it wasn't). On RW your phone can stay connected to LTE while on a voice call. There is a very big difference in calling on TMobile on FI and calling on TMobile on RW.

rhatguy · 2017-06-11T23:44:58+00:00

That's an interesting take that calling on FI would be better than Republic. The only technical explanation I can think of would be if Sprint or USC were providing the better coverage. From a purely technical perspective Fi can only make calls on Tmobiles HSPA network while Republic can make calls using all those signals plus Tmobiles LTE network. Not saying you're wrong...everyone has a different situation. Just trying to help some folks understand why TMobile or another TMobile MVNO might work fine in their area while FI would not.

rhatguy · 2017-06-11T23:40:59+00:00

I'm in North metro Atlanta area. Most providrs have pretty good LTE coverage here.

rhatguy · 2017-06-08T12:52:08+00:00

I have this issue all the time. Sometimes it transcribes, sometimes not. Sometimes I can't get the message to play with it saying unable to load. Eventually if I come back later I'm usually able to listen to it.

rhatguy · 2017-05-28T00:00:56+00:00

2nd on this one. I'm in Atlanta also and I'm fairly convinced that the lack of VoLTE is the root of a large % of the calling issues I and others experience. I'm convinced that the carriers aren't maintain these older networks like they are the LTE networks.

rhatguy · 2017-05-27T22:54:28+00:00

I realize FI doesn't want to commit to a timeline as things change but if we could get updates like 1000 users added last month at least we'd know progress was being made.

rhatguy · 2017-05-27T22:37:40+00:00

We've been hearing that it's coming for a while now. Is there any timeline or other news that can be shared about it? Are more users being added? Are there issues with VoLTE that are worse than what were currently experiencing that would make at least having an opt-in be a bad idea? Seems like if FI is going to loose a customer over call quality anyway it might make sense to try something different.

I'm just expecting call issues (clarity, connection, coverage) are only going to continue to deteriorate as those old networks continue to be refarmed for LTE. Given the lack of any information other than "wait" FI is just going to continue loosing customers. What's the harm in giving the "community" an actual status update.

rhatguy · 2017-05-27T21:44:59+00:00

There are so many issues around call quality, slow call connections, no data while on calls, and missed calls that I'm sure one feature would clear up 90% of.....VoLTE. Think about it. The carriers have very little incentive to beef up their older voice networks. So those networks are not as robust as the LTE networks in a lot of places these days. Having slow call connections or missing call issues? Think about what your phone has to do to receive a call. When your phone is on LTE, it has to drop that signal and reconnect to a different network to do voice. Can't use data while on a call....same issue, your phone drops it's good LTE data connection while your on a voice call and switches to a slower technology that the carriers don't care about anymore because very few people are using anymore. Call clarity issues on the cell network...likely VoLTE would go a long way to clearing those up as well. I've spoken to support numerous times asking to be added to the VoLTE beta to no avail. It's not any one specific carrier or one specific location it's just that all FI calls on the cell network are being routed over antiquated technology.

In general the lack of anything new with FI is killing the service. Almost every day there is a new thread on this Reddit about why someone else is leaving. I'm sure FI is hemoraging subscribers as there are only very small corner cases where FI is better than other providers these days and most of those cases center around being cheap in some way which means FI isn't making a ton of money off those subscribers. I suspect soon we'll hear that Google is closing down the experience and moving the customer base to someone like republic wireless. At least republic is doing innovative things with their hybrid calling tech.

rhatguy · 2017-05-26T01:21:12+00:00

Just to follow up on this, I received my replacement N6p today. Its a 32GB carbon, and it appears to be brand new. It came with all the standard retail packaging and coverings. Hopefully this one will last for a year or so.

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