I dont like replying to ACs, however I second that. The wireless service with other people using it as guests was too unstable for my taste. Disabled the darn thing.
They must have had addressed it, because the roaming authentication app asked me to install an iOS profile in my iPhone, and if I am not mistaken, a certificate was installed with it. Will have to check the profile better.
In Portugal ZON also offers FON. Pity is that as far I am aware, you can roam in other countries, but I may be wrong. The whole thing is very interesting but connections a bit flaky, as you can routinely jump from one "hotspot" ZON to another. At home, since I disabled FON in our home router, things have improved, and since I disabled our own FON ssid, the stability was better until I disabled everything all together and installed a 5GHz wireless router. I also had routinely crashes of the modem/wifi router when streaming things to my apple TV, and also normally 3 or 4 permanent "guests" which probably use passwords of friends or family, and as little as they used, they were a burden for the rather limited hardware resources of the device.
In addition, from DOCSIS 2.0 onwards, the modem can and does reserves bandwidth for specific use. So in theory, the bandwidth of the roaming users do not eat any of your capabilities. The part I would not vouch is for the hardware capabilities of the modem/router provided by default. I disabled ours and put it in bridging mode only.
I also forget to add that when you do have the roaming SSID (FON) open, it is not that unusual to have 2 or 3 "roaming" users connecting to you. Many people lend their passwords to friends or family for them not to buy Internet.
You are way better with your own wifi router. The hardware of the operator normally has limited capabilities and their DNS proxying/NAT slows down your Internet experience, and besides if you use your wifi to stream movies for the TV, the operator router wont take it and freeze once in a while. In the plus side you are also more in control of your network, specially if you know a little of what you are doing. Is is Telcom, or are you talking about the infamous Telkom in SA?
We have here a similar service with a former incumbent operator, which wonders of wonders has almost a virtual monopoly of cables services. The service itself is very useful and allow us to roam in most of locations without paying anything extra. Apparently it is a roaming authentication setup where you can authenticate in the modem of another customer, in a different VLAN/network and at limited speeds. (whilst at home you have 100 Mbps, roaming speeds appear to be on the range 5 to 2 Mbps). There are no dangers of someone knocking in the door of the other because of hacking/porn/whatever, all remote usage is linked to your account due to you logging with your id/password. The downside of this setup is that the 2.4GHz band is overcrowded, with most of the neighbours taking 2 (B)SSIDs. Often this situation compromises the quality of the service itself, both for the proper customer, and to the roaming service is equipment is providing. The situation has gotten so bad, I know of people installing repeaters at home, and I myself had to migrate to a new router in the 5GHz band to be able to work properly. I also disable the operator equipment and it works only in bridging mode, as the CPU capabilities are weak, and I don not trust the security if brings to my own network. There are also some persons who piggyback on the credentials and the family/friends, and use this service permanently with a (very) reduced Internet capacity. (As a side note, in both of my 2 houses in two different cities I can count as much as 40 BSSIDs when walking around the house)
The problem is that most vegetarians also avoid processed foods, if you get my gist. Manufactured foods are not kosher for many vegetarians, like for instance india with an astonishing 90% of population being vegetarian.
Vegetarians searching for products that taste like meat is more a western thing for ex-meat eaters, and many dont too; after 2 decades without eating meat, I too dont like even the smell of it. There have been vegetarians in India for thousand years, the first cow in Japan soil was killed in WWII by americans, and tofu has been made for 3 thousands years, without nobody caring if their food tastes like meat. Actually there also proofs Samurais were strictly vegetarians, the roman gladiators where mostly vegetarian (due to cost of meat and logistics of scale feeding large populations), and roman soldiers carried vegetarian alternatives as combat rations - spelt cakes for instance (because meat and fish would rot).
My late godfather and myself went into it because we believe it is a far sane way, and then there are others who proclaim their body is a temple. Of course it helps going without meat for decades for the yuck factor to kick in. I definitively am not into yet because of the animals, and I am not alone.
Who would want it? Die hard long time vegetarians (like me) abhor fake meats as much as real meats - they are disgusting the (almost) the same way. Even fake cheese smells like wet socks... Then everything that matters is price, and I seriously doubt any commercial venture of fake chicken, no matter how good, will be able to compete in price with an inhuman industry that cuts so many corners to be profitable. And even then, where would the eggs come from? PETA is too crazy and bordering fanaticism in my book.
Court battles are costly and lengthy. You have to pay your lawyers and judges also dont see in a favourable light people who doesnt want to accept out-of-court agreements when they are offered. I also accepted one agreement in the past when I was quite sure I had a solid case, and the case of the adversary was a joke. Actually I knew if I went ahead it would be a completely circus...but then read what I wrote above.
Far more than ridiculous, non-specialised IT magazines are B-O-R-I-N-G. Bigger hard disk, bigger RAM, faster processor, new anti-virus, how to clean your PC from anti-virus, rinse, repeat.
Not only fish finings, for red and port wine they also used bones/meat to give more "body" to the wine. I first read about fish finings for beers, however most of our national beers here in Portugal are pasteurised, or so do say. http://www.barnivore.com/beer
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Finaly a sane comment...If the poster doesnt like what they do, he can browse the email/banking at home or via his mobile. Their network, their rules.
Why wait? Sell the darn thing and change now. Life it too short to waste time in things we hate.
I dont like replying to ACs, however I second that. The wireless service with other people using it as guests was too unstable for my taste. Disabled the darn thing.
They must have had addressed it, because the roaming authentication app asked me to install an iOS profile in my iPhone, and if I am not mistaken, a certificate was installed with it. Will have to check the profile better.
In Portugal ZON also offers FON. Pity is that as far I am aware, you can roam in other countries, but I may be wrong. The whole thing is very interesting but connections a bit flaky, as you can routinely jump from one "hotspot" ZON to another. At home, since I disabled FON in our home router, things have improved, and since I disabled our own FON ssid, the stability was better until I disabled everything all together and installed a 5GHz wireless router. I also had routinely crashes of the modem/wifi router when streaming things to my apple TV, and also normally 3 or 4 permanent "guests" which probably use passwords of friends or family, and as little as they used, they were a burden for the rather limited hardware resources of the device.
In addition, from DOCSIS 2.0 onwards, the modem can and does reserves bandwidth for specific use. So in theory, the bandwidth of the roaming users do not eat any of your capabilities. The part I would not vouch is for the hardware capabilities of the modem/router provided by default. I disabled ours and put it in bridging mode only.
I also forget to add that when you do have the roaming SSID (FON) open, it is not that unusual to have 2 or 3 "roaming" users connecting to you. Many people lend their passwords to friends or family for them not to buy Internet.
You are way better with your own wifi router. The hardware of the operator normally has limited capabilities and their DNS proxying/NAT slows down your Internet experience, and besides if you use your wifi to stream movies for the TV, the operator router wont take it and freeze once in a while. In the plus side you are also more in control of your network, specially if you know a little of what you are doing. Is is Telcom, or are you talking about the infamous Telkom in SA?
I second this. I put the crappy cable modem in bridge mode, disable the wifi, and put a Time Capsule dealing with the traffic/wifi.
We have here a similar service with a former incumbent operator, which wonders of wonders has almost a virtual monopoly of cables services. The service itself is very useful and allow us to roam in most of locations without paying anything extra. Apparently it is a roaming authentication setup where you can authenticate in the modem of another customer, in a different VLAN/network and at limited speeds. (whilst at home you have 100 Mbps, roaming speeds appear to be on the range 5 to 2 Mbps). There are no dangers of someone knocking in the door of the other because of hacking/porn/whatever, all remote usage is linked to your account due to you logging with your id/password. The downside of this setup is that the 2.4GHz band is overcrowded, with most of the neighbours taking 2 (B)SSIDs. Often this situation compromises the quality of the service itself, both for the proper customer, and to the roaming service is equipment is providing. The situation has gotten so bad, I know of people installing repeaters at home, and I myself had to migrate to a new router in the 5GHz band to be able to work properly. I also disable the operator equipment and it works only in bridging mode, as the CPU capabilities are weak, and I don not trust the security if brings to my own network. There are also some persons who piggyback on the credentials and the family/friends, and use this service permanently with a (very) reduced Internet capacity. (As a side note, in both of my 2 houses in two different cities I can count as much as 40 BSSIDs when walking around the house)
Nah, we also have a similar service here. Any outside usage is linked to your customer login.
The problem is that most vegetarians also avoid processed foods, if you get my gist. Manufactured foods are not kosher for many vegetarians, like for instance india with an astonishing 90% of population being vegetarian.
Vegetarians searching for products that taste like meat is more a western thing for ex-meat eaters, and many dont too; after 2 decades without eating meat, I too dont like even the smell of it. There have been vegetarians in India for thousand years, the first cow in Japan soil was killed in WWII by americans, and tofu has been made for 3 thousands years, without nobody caring if their food tastes like meat. Actually there also proofs Samurais were strictly vegetarians, the roman gladiators where mostly vegetarian (due to cost of meat and logistics of scale feeding large populations), and roman soldiers carried vegetarian alternatives as combat rations - spelt cakes for instance (because meat and fish would rot).
My late godfather and myself went into it because we believe it is a far sane way, and then there are others who proclaim their body is a temple. Of course it helps going without meat for decades for the yuck factor to kick in. I definitively am not into yet because of the animals, and I am not alone.
Think is Nespresso tried to sue generic pod makers and lost, so there is already a precedent...
Would a dog qualify instead of a civet? Hmmm....coffee of dog poop...
You dont go to a coffee shop outside only for the coffee, but for the environment, and for a walk. Some even go there for the wifi.
Who would want it? Die hard long time vegetarians (like me) abhor fake meats as much as real meats - they are disgusting the (almost) the same way. Even fake cheese smells like wet socks... Then everything that matters is price, and I seriously doubt any commercial venture of fake chicken, no matter how good, will be able to compete in price with an inhuman industry that cuts so many corners to be profitable. And even then, where would the eggs come from? PETA is too crazy and bordering fanaticism in my book.
So nothing changed until now in putting incompetents in charge of Europe...
Are you naive or just trying to be funny? Human nature being what it is, it wouldnt make much of a difference.
It is not taxing the local business, it is yet another hidden tax that trickles down on you...
My favourite google ad is/was a gif at the bottom of your screen that shows a "facebook mailbox" with a "new message" to read.
Court battles are costly and lengthy. You have to pay your lawyers and judges also dont see in a favourable light people who doesnt want to accept out-of-court agreements when they are offered. I also accepted one agreement in the past when I was quite sure I had a solid case, and the case of the adversary was a joke. Actually I knew if I went ahead it would be a completely circus...but then read what I wrote above.
Far more than ridiculous, non-specialised IT magazines are B-O-R-I-N-G. Bigger hard disk, bigger RAM, faster processor, new anti-virus, how to clean your PC from anti-virus, rinse, repeat.
Not only fish finings, for red and port wine they also used bones/meat to give more "body" to the wine. I first read about fish finings for beers, however most of our national beers here in Portugal are pasteurised, or so do say. http://www.barnivore.com/beer