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Re: TMobile Money is not available Quicken Users...
Basically, I wouldn't mind giving T-Mobile my banking business. Except that the lack of Quicken integration, of any kind, is a show-stopper. Period. Quicken has, basically, three ways of operating: Simplest: Download .csv files or similar (there's an interchange format) that allows dumping transactions into the register. Bit more complex: There's a Web-Connect that does the same thing, but it can be initiated by the user, so that multiple accounts at multiple financial institutions can get transactions downloaded. Direct Connect: Highly secure, Quicken's servers talk to the financial institution's servers. Faster than web-connect. As an added bonus, those banks that pay for the privilege can also pay bills this way, avoiding the ad-laden, cookie-laden, privacy-stealing method of paying for bills directly on a financial institution's own web site. Thing is: It's not just banks that do this. So do major mutual funds, brokerage houses, and other financial institutions. Heck, the 401K plan at work has Quicken integration! T-Mobile's banking attempt, as currently constituted, high interest rates or no, show that they're running a tricycle in a Indy 500 race car world. Catch up, T-Mobile! Dig out that spokes lady of yours that used to run around on her motorcycle!4Visto5likes0ComentariosRe: Home internet modem keeps powering down and restarting
Um. I'm an electrical engineer. I troubleshoot hardware for a living, at least until recently when I retired. Brand new T-Mobile Gateway, the tall, square in cross-section one. Started seeing $RANDOM dropouts, once every couple of hours, as soon as the thing was put in use. On day, happened to be in the office upstairs where the thing was placed, down went the internet. Looked over, screen says, "Powering Up". There had been no power outages whatsoever. When it came back up, so did the internet. Four hours later, lather, rinse, repeat. Called T-Mobile support. After the usual five minute wait, talked to a nice service rep. Se said it was clearly a problem with the gateway. AND that that particular brand (the tall one) was known to have this problem. Drop shipped me a new one on a Friday, got it on this last Monday. Opened the box: Same rough shape (square in cross-section) but shorter than the original. Set it up. No more drop-outs. Did have to swap the SIM card from the intermittent one to the new one, but that was it, beyond the usual setup follies. Could be the power brick. But, speaking as a troubleshooter: I've seen hardware that does stuff like this. A fair number of reasons. Overtemperature on some device that causes excessive current draw; reset sensor whose voltage thresholds are too high/too low, so it causes a reset; bad parts in manufacturing that short out intermittently; and so on. I note that it took a while before it started doing this in my case, at least four or five hours. Most factories power up their equipment, sometimes in a heat tent, with the intent of detecting early failures. So this looks like a factory escapee: Should have been caught during testing, but worked long enough to ship. There's this general idea: One can do a lot of testing when one builds a product. Testing the circuit board, lot testing individual components, testing the assembled board before putting it in the box, testing the complete box after assembly (functional test), and, of course, heat tank testing. If one is getting 99%+ yields at a particular test step and there's decent fault coverage, it's often cost-effective to skip some tests and use others. This works if one's suppliers provide low-fault batches of hardware; one pays more for that, but then gets to skip hiring people and mounting test stations, so it's an interesting balance for the manufacturing engineer. But there are pointy-haired bosses who just love skipping testing steps in the interests of low costs.. and this smells of that.16Visto1like0Comentarios