Re: LG Smart TV Connectivity Issue (Wired)

From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	aus.computers, aus.tv
Subject	Re: LG Smart TV Connectivity Issue (Wired)
Date	2017-04-06 04:30 +1000
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BruceS <bruces42@hotmail.com> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> BruceS <bruces42@hotmail.com> wrote
>>> felix wrote
>>>> Rod Speed wrote

>>>>> How long did it take to get the phone number ported ?  Took Paul 
>>>>> weeks.

>>>> I didn't port. TPG gave me a new number

>>> To me, that would be a major hassle.  Everyone who has your old number 
>>> needs to get your new one, and you need to remember the new number.

>> Yeah, and the other problem is the lack of an entry in the phone book.

> True, though I don't worry about that.  Anyone who needs to look me up in 
> the book, I probably don't want to talk to.

I've found the opposite. I have had a call from someone
who had everything stolen in egypt as a tourist and
needed to get me to tell them the numbers to call to
have their cards cancelled. Sure, a well prepared person
wouldn’t need to, but most arent that well prepared.

The cops called me one Saturday to say I could come and pick
up the stuff some stupid kids had been caught with. They were
caught quite literally with a wheel barrow, helping themselves
to stuff out of cars they could get into. I had been out to a pissup
the night before, had got some grog in the drive thru bottleshop
and had managed to forget to lock the passengers door again
after that, in a 73 golf which doesn’t have central locking.

Sure, doesn’t happen that often.

>>> I effectively only have two choices of ISP here,

>> I don’t believe that. There are dozens that can provide a service to 
>> anyone.

I'd forgotten you arent in this country.

> There are other providers, but no really viable ones.

> I found a list of 15 in the area.  Several require optical fiber, which 
> hasn't reached our neighborhood, so that's out.  Others are line-of-sight 
> wireless, at substantially higher prices than the two big players,  and 
> the hilly terrain makes that problematic.  We're really down to the phone 
> company with its DSL or the cable company.

Weird how primitive your system is. Your mobile system too.

>>> both pushing phone service (and TV and even home security) as well.

>> Just because they push it doesn’t mean you cant just say no to that 
>> stuff.

> Exactly.  I don't even bother to reply to their repeated attempts to get 
> me to "bundle" with services I don't need.

Just had a mate of mine have an optarse sales arsehole
tell him that while optarse does have no contract plans,
that he knows nothing about them and wont sell him one.

Presumably his commission is much higher on the contract plans.

> I get TV over the air, don't need their phone service since I switched to 
> Ooma, and am not nearly paranoid enough to want a monitored security 
> system.

I don’t actually know anyone who has one so I
don’t know how well that works in practice anyway.

I'm actually the 'monitored security system' for my next door
neighbour and it only costs him free oranges, he's a fruit grower.

And I don’t actually bother with oranges anyway.

>>> I got tired of porting the phone, and went to an independent VOIP 
>>> option, Ooma.

>> Mine, MyNetFone can't port my number. I was planning to do that instead 
>> of porting it to MyRepublic but discovered that they cant port my number. 
>> And the MNF Whirlpool offer has no fixed monthly charge at all, so is 
>> much better value than Ooma.

> The basic Ooma has no fixed monthly charge.  Our (U.S.) federal and state 
> governments charge taxes for phone service (unless you're a social 
> parasite, in which case they provide it free!), and phone service 
> providers pass those taxes along.  I like the blacklists enough, and I 
> think there was something else included, that the $10/month is acceptable 
> to me.

Yeah, your system is quite different with you paying for incoming
calls from mobiles. We don’t, so don’t need blacklists.

>>> Now I just get Internet service from whichever provider has the best 
>>> deal at the time, and should never have to port my number or deal with 
>>> the hassle of telling everyone my new number, unless Ooma fails.

>> But pay significantly more for that.

> I'm not sure what you mean.

$10 per month is a lot more than $0 per month.

> I pay a lot less than what I used to for phone service through the phone 
> or cable companies,

I pay a little less for FTTN than I paid
for a phone service and adsl2+ service
and get that voip service for free.

Only viable for incoming calls for free tho,
but its only $10/month for unlimited calls
to landlines and $20/month for unlimited
calls to landlines and mobiles and $30/month
for unlimited calls to 40 international countrys.

Our line rent for a landline is well over $35/month now.

> even though their service was essentially the same, minus the blacklists.

>>> Basic phone service with them is free, just buy the device and pay the 
>>> taxes.  Of course they push other services, and I use their
>>> $10USD/month phone service, with blacklists and other features.

>> I do use MNF for all outgoing calls to landlines. I use the mobile for 
>> calls to mobiles and when out of the house.

> I rarely use my mobile,

I use it a lot now that we coordinate the opening
times of the garage/yard sales on our mobiles.

> so I have a very cheap service that works best with infrequent use.

I do too, no fixed monthly charge, short calls cost me 12c

I don’t usually spend more than $10/month for calls, texts and data.

> It's a prepaid

Mine is post paid.

> with no monthly charge, just a charge for any day I use it

Mine doesn’t have that.

> plus a per-minute charge.  I could switch to get rid of the daily charge 
> and have a higher per-minute, but my pattern of use is typically long 
> stretches of no use, then moderate use while on
> a trip.  And now I'm thinking about the cost of the mobile, about 
> $100/year, plus the cost of the Ooma, $120/year, and wondering just what I 
> could get for $220/year...

I don’t spend as much as that, $120 a year or so for the mobile,
nothing like that for the voip calls, wouldn’t even be $30 a year
at 10c a call, regardless of the length of the call.

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