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What is Spectrum, or Charter Spectrum?

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 08 May 2017 11:00:30 +0000

What is Spectrum? Charter Spectrum, or simply Spectrum, is a new name to many parts of the country. Spectrum is the brand name for cable, Internet and phone service from Charter Communications. Although Charter started using the Spectrum name prior

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Spectrum bought by AT&T? Not quite.

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 12:00:25 +0000

Was Time Warner Cable or Charter Spectrum bought by AT&T? No it wasn’t, but I understand why some people are thinking that right now. It now turns out that both Charter Communications and AT&T have a history with Time Warner,

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Blu Studio One review

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 11:00:17 +0000

I needed a phone in a hurry the other day when my wife’s Moto E started acting up. We turned to the Blu Studio One, specifically model# S0110UU. This is my Blu Studio One review. It’s an inexpensive midrange phone for

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How I set up office hours in Google Voice

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 11:00:37 +0000

If you have a side business, you need to offer customer service, but it’s also perfectly reasonable to not want your phone to ring at 3 a.m. You can fix that if you set up office hours in Google Voice. Fortunately

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Does a POTS phone use the same wiring as U-Verse VOIP?

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 11:00:12 +0000

A friend asked me a good question: Does a POTS phone use the same wiring as U-Verse VOIP? The answer is, it depends. Outside your house, no it doesn’t. But that’s not your problem. Outside, that’s AT&T’s problem. Inside is where

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Why you can’t get to Google and Facebook on AT&T U-Verse

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 11:00:14 +0000

If you have AT&T U-Verse, from time to time you may have issues with Facebook or Google sites like Youtube not working, while the rest of the Internet works fine. The solution is simple but non-obvious: Disable IPv6. IPv6 is a

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Does AT&T U-Verse drop connections like DSL?

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 11:00:39 +0000

I got this question anonymously, but it’s a fair question: Does AT&T U-Verse drop connections like DSL? In my experience, over the 3½ years I’ve had it, sometimes. But not nearly as often. I can think of two times this year I’ve seen my

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How to size your Internet connection

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 04 May 2015 11:00:04 +0000

So I understand ISPs are upselling connection speeds saying it’ll make Netflix work better. That’s a nice theory. But if you’re already over 10 megabits, there’s a decent chance your connection speed won’t do much for Netflix at all. Here’s how

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How to ensure you never get another Windows tech support scam call again

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 11:00:18 +0000

I haven’t received a fake Windows tech support call in a very long time. A couple of the operations doing this have been shut down, but based on the continued popularity of the things I’ve written about them, I wonder if

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Net neutrality is not Marxism

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:00:52 +0000

There is a fear campaign going on, suggesting that net neutrality is Marxism, or a plot for the government to take over the Internet. That’s name calling. There’s actually something very different going on. I’m not going to resort to

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