Posts made by zerenia

@my4mainecoons I do what I suggested you do - every year I threaten to leave and they keep my deal intact. You have to have a bonafide competitive deal, which is not hard to get quoted. One year, about 10 years ago, Comcast declined to honor my deal, so I went ahead and switched to AT&T. When I called Comcast back to discontinue, then they wanted to give me a great deal, but I told them it was too late and they needed to educate the agent I spoke with previously as they could have easily kept me as a customer.

I get Comcast through my HOA for the past five years, but I have add-ons so I still call but the new threat is to drop the add-ons (voice, extra channels, extra TV sets in the house). They try to raise the rates every year. I’ve never heard of a guaranteed-for-life rate except for AT&T DSL a long time ago - but you know about that one!

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@my4mainecoons Looks like you have options. From where I stand, you would be paying an extra $16 per month for a service you would not use just to have the ability to use that service. You could buy a 3rd year of Comcast for that extra $16 per month over two years.

ISPs have a retention department. About 30 days before your contract is up you call customer service and tell them that you have a competing offer that is better than what your rate is going to increase to, but if they continue your contract at the current price, you will stay. If you are polite and friendly, they will typically keep your rate steady. BUT, you have to make the same phone call every year unless you can convince them to keep the rate steady for multiple years.

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@my4mainecoons said in Can you have 2 ISP's?:

I got a FW HD in 1999: DSL from what was AT&T for $13.99/month for life. There was a price increase at some point in the past 21 years, maybe when AT&T dissolved. It’s now Fairpoint. I’ve been paying $15.99/month for a few years. Of course it’s slow. I don’t mind it but I have a regular Zoom meeting and it’s problematic for that. Sometimes I have to go to e.g. Panera to do things because my speed is too slow (3-7 mbps) but TBH it bothers the Zoom people not me.

It looks like I can get Xfinity for $29.99/month for 2 years. Since that’s cable, could I keep the DSL? I would use Xfinity until the Zoom meetings end then go back to the DSL. I hate to give up my grandfathered rate and the fact that it’s for life.

Your basic premise is that Zoom meetings are going away. I have a strong belief that they are here to stay. Even if we don’t have a pandemic or major crisis, the pandemic accelerated what was happening already - less in-person meeting and more remote meeting activity.

Be careful - AT&T discontinued new DSL connections a year ago, and will not make changes to existing plans, so if you want to keep your DSL, don’t make any changes to your account. Unless the matter is one of finances, I suggest that switching to a faster Internet service will give you access to other potentially beneficial products, like streaming video.

To answer your original question, yes, you can have two ISPs as long as they both don’t want to use the same physical wire to connect to your house. You will have two different routers and networks inside your home and you ought to be able to switch back and forth between them with little effort.

FWIW, depending on the Comcast speed, $30 per month is very reasonable for cable internet capability. If you have a financial hardship, Comcast has a $10 per month deal they don’t discuss openly.

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@ctujackbauer said in Get Two (2) Chick-Fil-A Peppermint Chip Milkshake Coupons - FREE - exp 12/13/21:

Got one of mine in the mail today (USPS Informed Delivery said I should have gotten two…)

Should be addressed from “The Whoopsery”

The coupon has a scan code on the back so you can present the card to the cashier, or you can add it to the Chick Fil A app and then redeem it. The coupon expires 12/31/2021.

Got both of them, about a week apart. Gave them away - I won’t do business at Chick-Fil-A but folks at work eat there all the time.

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@phat200 said in The PCs on my network can no longer see each other:

@zerenia said in The PCs on my network can no longer see each other:

@phat200 SO… I get your replies. If you want to reset the WIn 7 networking, uninstall the VPN, reboot, and then follow the instructions in this 2.5 minute video. The procedure will leave you with your adapter clean and looking for an address from a DHCP server, which is probably built into your Internet router. Write down or keep all of the settings from the IPCONFIG/all that you redacted just in case you have to key them all back in if this fails and you then can’t get onto the Internet.

https://youtu.be/jF1u_YyXTUw

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I am going to put this off until the X’mas weekend. I’ll backup both my PCs before I do any reset. Is it better to do a backup or make a disk image?

I’ll try reset the ip/winsock first. I’ll uninstall the VPN then print out the ipconfig /all for both PCs. To make matter worse, I noticed that my VM can’t see the local drives either.

If the above reset doesn’t work, then I’ll try resetting the network.

Question: should I do these resets – ip and network – on both PC? OR just the PC I think is causing the problem? And if I do both PCs, is there any order that I should do in – e.g. Win7 first or Win10 first?

TIA

Try the PC that you think is the problem first. If one is working OK, or you think it’s working OK, leave it alone.

Backup vs. Disk Image - you have to be able to restore the disk image somehow. If you backup, make sure you include the registry and system files/folders or else all you have is data and application files. Not sure either one is really necessary if you capture the system state by creating restore points that you can later apply, but I think in an earlier post you indicated that you know how to do that. If not, some instructions here:

Win 10: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-system-restore-a5ae3ed9-07c4-fd56-45ee-096777ecd14e

Win 7: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-create-restore-point-in-windows-7/740f0902-1b13-4a0a-b428-ee58a9233e61

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@phat200 SO… I get your replies. If you want to reset the WIn 7 networking, uninstall the VPN, reboot, and then follow the instructions in this 2.5 minute video. The procedure will leave you with your adapter clean and looking for an address from a DHCP server, which is probably built into your Internet router. Write down or keep all of the settings from the IPCONFIG/all that you redacted just in case you have to key them all back in if this fails and you then can’t get onto the Internet.

https://youtu.be/jF1u_YyXTUw

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@Phat200 Why does the Win10 have a bunch of Hyper-V adapters?

Not sure how much you know about networking, but I have a basic question because you snipped some of the information.

Win 7 - Intel 82579LM Adapter - IP address is 192.x.y.z
Win 10 - Hyper-V Virtual Adapter #3 - IP address is 192.x.y.z

For those two adapters, are “x” and “y” the same numbers? If not, then the machines probably can’t ping each other and the tracerts will fail. Do they both have the same IP address for the DHCP server and default gateway? If x and y are not the same, that is likely your problem. But then that brings up the question of how you have two DHCP servers on the network, so I’m betting that x and y are the same on both machines.

If yes to all of these questions, can you disable all other adapters except for the ones that have the 192.x.y.x addresses? If you can disable all of the other adapters, try pinging again, and if still fail, then disable the windows firewall on both machines and try pinging again. If ping works, then you are likely most of the way home. Turn the VPN adapters back on and leave all of the other adapters disabled and see if your problem is gone.

If all else fails, and if you’re able to reinstall the VPN client on the Win10 machine, you can try resetting the network settings completely to default. Click the Start button and type “network reset” without the quotation marks, and you will be prompted to default the physical adapter to out-of-box settings and the adapter will pick up an IP address from the DHCP server and that might solve your problem. If you are prompted to allow network discovery, or something like that, you have to say “yes” so exceptions are made in the Windows firewall to allow the machines to communicate.

Good luck!

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@phat200 Can you post the Win 10 ipconfig/all, please?

Also, did you try pinging each other machine’s IP addresses? Not the machine names, but the local area adapter IP address? If so, and it did not work, try a tracert from one IP address to the other and report what happened. This is what I would be doing if I was sitting in front of the machines.

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@phat200 What happens if you turn off the firewall on both pc’s? Can they see each other then?

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@angryeyebrows Love the categoies… “Domestic Suspense”.

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@ctgolfer Link does not go to the coupon. After clicking the link, clear the search, select the Dairy icon and the coupon is in the dairy list.

Thanks, @ctgolfer

@vegasvegan said in PhatWallet needs your permission to activate desktop notifications:

@dangeruss Old Firefox. I’ll try in a different browser and if it doesn’t happen there I guess it must be that.

Edit: Yea it must be old FF. Doesn’t come back in new FF
Not a big deal just posted in case it was a glitch from a site upgrade or something.

Latest FireFox on Win10 - getting the notification.

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Only free for Kindle Unlimited participants. $3.99 and up for everyone else.

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@marvomatic Now $4.49 + FS for Prime.

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@mrvietnam I got the $9.14 in PayPal as well.

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@angryeyebrows Yep. I’m going to stop looking. Luckily there are other Prime benefits, so this one doesn’t really matter much to me.

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@pitcherswife If it’s wireless, why does it have a 3mm audio connector?

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@angryeyebrows said in Amazon First Reads June- Prime Members Choose 2 Kindle Books from Select Titles- Claim by 7/1:

Login w/ Prime

Amazon First Reads

Sorry Z, same old thing.

@AngryEyebrows Indeed. Some interesting author names, though:

Precious Brady-Davis
Brittainy Cherry (not a typo)
E.J. Mellow

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@ctgolfer Bought one a couple of years ago when on sale. Works great, easy to clean. Very satisfied customer!

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@ctgolfer Now $0.99.

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@pitcherswife

From the website:

“Do I have to be a spray tan pro to get a free sample?
YES. This offer is for spray tan pros only that are based in the USA. All orders will be verified and limited to 1 per business.”

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@sonofzeus Looks like it’s identical to Aleve - naproxen sodium 230mg.

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@marvomatic I got it but it requires using Shipt. So same day delivery or you have to pick up. No online or in-store.

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@angryeyebrows said in Amazon First Reads May- Prime Members Choose 1 Kindle Edition from Select Titles-Claim by 6/1:

https://www.amazon.com/firstreads?tag=phtwllt-20

Sorry Z, standard offerings

Yep. I like how they try to use different categories. “Domestic thriller” was particularly creative……

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