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Re: Does Internet Price Go Up If You No Longer Have A Cell Phone?
From all the pricing I've seen, you definitely get a substantial discount if you have >1 service. Getting by without basic texting/mobile-access is quite difficult these days, IME, you need a way to get 2FA texts for some things and a way to run a MFA Authenticator app for others. You can use a security key (such as a Yubi key, one example) but the support is still somewhat limited, at this point. You can run Authentication apps on most tablet devices, using home internet data, certainly, but again support is limited and sometimes requires a text to configure, or as a fallback. Not having 2FA of some sort on your "critical" stuff, such as email, mobile-account, financials, and a few others is pretty sketchy; if someone compromises it (which is almost a "when instead of if" at this point, if you have a simple credential for login), not only will you lose control of that account and whatever's associated with it, but you'll have a VERY difficult time regaining control. I'd suggest just getting a low-cost prepaid plan or something and combining that with Home Internet, simple, cheap, and covers all the bases.11Visto1like0ComentariosRe: Turn off Wifi?
Pentiumii wrote: Thank you so much. with the combined information I have been able to turn off the radios and fairly confident that I can turn them back on. I purchased the flint to invoke failover with two data inputs. I have a ton to learn about the flint, but I believe it will be awesome once I can get vpn working. I had so many radios on from the two sources, the flint, and then my orbi that I was gettin a ton of interference. Yeah, in general you want one "system" of radios, with multiple APs like that. Ideally, they should be the same vendor so that roaming works, between them, and tuned for signal strength, such that they only overlap at about 60 or dBm. Not having them set up this way will cause strange client behavior, as your client devices try to sort out which of the many concurrent signals are the best one, which can be a series of failures, basically, if there are overlapping strong signals. You'll want to tune both the 2.4 and 5GHz radios, separately/per-AP, for the best possible performance. There are many great YT videos on AP tuning, for reference.29Visto1like0ComentariosRe: any one else not receiving texts randomly
There was an RCS deployment problem a couple of months ago (around 2/24 for core Android 14 on current Pixel devices), with regards to a specific Android 14 build-update. This may be just now trickling down to firmware releases on TMo phones, maybe, possibly (only a tech with access could verify this). Has anyone tried flushing the app cache for Messages, and Play Services, assuming an Android device(s) here? This often allows messages blocked by a singular cache problem to be received, in the above scenario. Disabling and re-enabling RCS (under Settings, in the Messages app) can also help trigger the push. As far as I know, this affected users across all/most carriers, it was just that the updates were deployed at different times, so it looked like it was one carrier experiencing it at once, say if a deployment updated a bunch of S23-series devices (just as an example).11Visto1like0Comentarios