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10-08-2015, 12:44 PM
So, early Saturday morning, my mailman dropped off my second SDR Dongle which, I am going to use to build myself a Trunk-Tracking Scanner for $19.99 :
https://sites.google.com/site/policescannerhowto/
One of the steps involved required that I install cygwin to my laptop; silly me, I went for the default (ALL) installation on cygwin and, it downloaded every proggie and all of their dependencies that will fit in the Cygwin terminal.
Understanding that I mistakenly ordered the whole "Buffet", I put the scanner install on hold, kicked back and watched a sporting event that was being streamed online to my home network (all clients have fixed IP addresses) while for better than an hour, my laptop sucked down data until, at less than the half way point of being completed, my Internet connection went down.........F*CK!
I spent an hour T/S and bit chasing on my end; even switched out my router to eliminate that. Everything was good on my end all the way back to the Cable gateway device; phone was on so, I knew the Internet was being piped in but, all my devices were cut off from the DNS server. It is 10:50 p.m. on Saturday night; and my head started to swim.
With full knowledge that I was going to be connected to an off-shore help desk, I had no choice but to call; I was connect to "Jasper" who of course had to get down his trouble-shooting checklist. This involved the "resetting" of the gateway, my switch and router, and restarting my computer. After all this runaround, "Jeffrey" (we spent so much time that the S.O.B. forgot who he introduced himself as at the start of the call) announced that my router was bad.........Can you say, "Bullshit!!!" ?
I disagreed with his conclusion and he disagreed with me. He said that the earliest that he could schedule a Technician was Tuesday afternoon and threaten / reminded me that there could be a service charge involved-----I was sitting there staring at the phone-----using all my willpower not to curse this fellow out--------he is virtually hold the plug to my Internet in his hands. He offers a solution; for just a mere $10.00 extra dollars a month, I can upgrade to 20Mb download speed and, he could activate my wireless signal from his end.
I told him, "No, I am on a 'Promotional Bundle' and if anything is changed, it will change the agreement."
He said, "No it will not" and that he recommends that I upgrade to have reliable service for, "a mere $10.00 extra per month."
I again say, "No", I inform him that my network was set up using Static IP addresses and request that he reauthorize and provision my service as it was before; by this time it is 12:45 a.m. Sunday morning (eyes bugged out, steam coming out of my ears and, my hair is turning grayer as the seconds tick by).
"Jamal" again makes his recommendation that I upgrade so that he can be 100% assured that I will not have anymore "technical" problems--"Can you say veiled threat"?
By 1:00 a.m. "Jabar" had forced me to relent and agree to the upgrade; he thanked me for, "Pleasantly waiting and understanding".
My network with static IP addresses in the 192.168.1.xx range did not like his DHCP server giving out 192.168.0.xx addresses.
The cygwin install only took 15 minutes on the 20 Mb D/L line. Took a good while of Sunday afternoon changing wireless passwords and DHCP settings.
This is one helluaway to build a $19.00 scanner.
.
https://sites.google.com/site/policescannerhowto/
One of the steps involved required that I install cygwin to my laptop; silly me, I went for the default (ALL) installation on cygwin and, it downloaded every proggie and all of their dependencies that will fit in the Cygwin terminal.
Understanding that I mistakenly ordered the whole "Buffet", I put the scanner install on hold, kicked back and watched a sporting event that was being streamed online to my home network (all clients have fixed IP addresses) while for better than an hour, my laptop sucked down data until, at less than the half way point of being completed, my Internet connection went down.........F*CK!
I spent an hour T/S and bit chasing on my end; even switched out my router to eliminate that. Everything was good on my end all the way back to the Cable gateway device; phone was on so, I knew the Internet was being piped in but, all my devices were cut off from the DNS server. It is 10:50 p.m. on Saturday night; and my head started to swim.
With full knowledge that I was going to be connected to an off-shore help desk, I had no choice but to call; I was connect to "Jasper" who of course had to get down his trouble-shooting checklist. This involved the "resetting" of the gateway, my switch and router, and restarting my computer. After all this runaround, "Jeffrey" (we spent so much time that the S.O.B. forgot who he introduced himself as at the start of the call) announced that my router was bad.........Can you say, "Bullshit!!!" ?
I disagreed with his conclusion and he disagreed with me. He said that the earliest that he could schedule a Technician was Tuesday afternoon and threaten / reminded me that there could be a service charge involved-----I was sitting there staring at the phone-----using all my willpower not to curse this fellow out--------he is virtually hold the plug to my Internet in his hands. He offers a solution; for just a mere $10.00 extra dollars a month, I can upgrade to 20Mb download speed and, he could activate my wireless signal from his end.
I told him, "No, I am on a 'Promotional Bundle' and if anything is changed, it will change the agreement."
He said, "No it will not" and that he recommends that I upgrade to have reliable service for, "a mere $10.00 extra per month."
I again say, "No", I inform him that my network was set up using Static IP addresses and request that he reauthorize and provision my service as it was before; by this time it is 12:45 a.m. Sunday morning (eyes bugged out, steam coming out of my ears and, my hair is turning grayer as the seconds tick by).
"Jamal" again makes his recommendation that I upgrade so that he can be 100% assured that I will not have anymore "technical" problems--"Can you say veiled threat"?
By 1:00 a.m. "Jabar" had forced me to relent and agree to the upgrade; he thanked me for, "Pleasantly waiting and understanding".
My network with static IP addresses in the 192.168.1.xx range did not like his DHCP server giving out 192.168.0.xx addresses.
The cygwin install only took 15 minutes on the 20 Mb D/L line. Took a good while of Sunday afternoon changing wireless passwords and DHCP settings.
This is one helluaway to build a $19.00 scanner.
.