Simple backup option non-techy person

In article , Arlen Holder
wrote:


Maybe I don't understand your situation well enough to help you?

as is always the case.

"Ken Springer" wrote

| Maybe I don't want one for daily use??? That never seems to occur to
| people. Wow! You're weird, you don't want a ball and chain to
| constantly bother you?
|

What if your friend just fell down a well. And your
number is the only one he can remember. But you're
out working in the garden. So he dies. Some friend
you are.

On 5/5/20 11:51 AM, Arlen Holder wrote:
In response to what Ken Springer wrote :

o Do you not have a router to plug the femtocell into?

Maybe I don't want one for daily use??? That never seems to occur to
people. Wow! You're weird, you don't want a ball and chain to
constantly bother you?

OK.

I was just informing you (and everyone) that as long as they have Internet,
they can have fantastic cellular signal throughout their house.

For free.

However, if you don't _want_ cellular signal, that's a different story.

I already knew about the femtocell from the earlier thread. But, it has
it's limitations too.

I've got a friend who visits once in a while. The first time she was
here, her phone did not work, of course. She complained about that. A
couple trips later, I looked at her phone, and connected it to my
router. Now, she complains it keeps bothering her!

Guess I can't win. LOL


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Ken
MacOS 10.14.6
Firefox 70.0.1
Thunderbird 60.9
"My brain is like lightning, a quick flash
and it's gone!"

In article , Mayayana
wrote:

| Maybe I don't want one for daily use??? That never seems to occur to
| people. Wow! You're weird, you don't want a ball and chain to
| constantly bother you?
|

What if your friend just fell down a well. And your
number is the only one he can remember. But you're
out working in the garden. So he dies. Some friend
you are.

he should call 911 or equivalent, not his friends.

In article , Ken Springer
wrote:


I've got a friend who visits once in a while. The first time she was
here, her phone did not work, of course. She complained about that. A
couple trips later, I looked at her phone, and connected it to my
router. Now, she complains it keeps bothering her!

Guess I can't win. LOL

if you mean connect to your router's wifi, that won't help with phone
calls, and there is also no reason why her phone would continue to
bother her about the connection when she is not within range.

On 5/5/20 12:14 PM, Mayayana wrote:
"Ken Springer" wrote

| Maybe I don't want one for daily use??? That never seems to occur to
| people. Wow! You're weird, you don't want a ball and chain to
| constantly bother you?
|

What if your friend just fell down a well. And your
number is the only one he can remember. But you're
out working in the garden. So he dies. Some friend
you are.

There's no guarantee the cell phone didn't get broken, is there?

Where's the guarantee the signal would reach anything from the bottom of
the well?

How many wells are there that you can actually fall into? Most are 4"
or 6" steel casings, these days.

What if that happened 30 years ago?

Why didn't my friend take some responsibility in what (s)he was doing so
they did not fall into the well?

What if your car rolled over due to a flat tire, and you're 50 miles
from any cell service?

We can come up with a thousand of these what if scenarios, that are
highly unlikely to happen.

Life is not utopia, there will always be risks. But you can't afford
utopia at all costs.

If you don't want risks, stay home in your chair. Don't fly in an
airplane. Don't book a trip into outer space. Don't be an astronaut.
Deep sea diver. Don't be a submariner. :-)




--
Ken
MacOS 10.14.6
Firefox 70.0.1
Thunderbird 60.9
"My brain is like lightning, a quick flash
and it's gone!"

On 5/5/20 12:08 PM, Mike Easter wrote:
Ken Springer wrote:
Mike Easter wrote:
Ken Springer wrote:

snip

As a Mac and Windows and linux user, one must get into the 'Mac is not
Win is not linux' mindset. Each has their strengths and weaknesses and
differences.

That's my basic core answer when I'm asked which system is the best.

snip


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Ken
MacOS 10.14.6
Firefox 70.0.1
Thunderbird 60.9
"My brain is like lightning, a quick flash
and it's gone!"

In response to what nospam wrote :

Maybe I don't understand your situation well enough to help you?

as is always the case.

What's odd about you nospam is you never miss a chance...
o To prove you play your always fifth-grade always childish games...

Anyway, to always strive to add adult value to any thread I post to...
1. If you have Internet, a femtocell attached to the router gives you
cellular signal that is pretty damn good throughout the house.

2. If you have less than about -100 decibels of cellular signal, then even
without Internet, a cellular repeater in your upstairs window will give you
a cellular signal inside the house that's usable.

3. If you have an Android phone, you can walk around the house to see
exactly what those cellular signal strengths are, where you can see exactly
which micro cell tower your cell phone is connecting to any given time.

4. If you're on iOS, then you'll have to ask nospam for a debugging
solution, since he'll just make one up on the fly for you any time he wants
to (I think he makes up this functionality because he hates that iOS
doesn't have it).
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