How bad is Edge?

I went to YouTube and watched a demo of Edge vs. wifi using a video as an example I was pleasantly surprised.
But I was wondering. How about just general web surfing. For example is reading the NY Times OK on Edge?
Or is it just for emergencies?
I just ordered my iPhone it is somewhere over the Pacific right now.
Of course I immediately heard 3g might be on the horizon.
Mike

You weren't--you were trying to make this person believe that those who speak negatively about EDGE have no credibility.
Oh not, not at all. I was describing experience with it in situations where I have no choice but use Edge and where I have found real world use to be adequate, much to my surprise after reading a number of dire descriptions which made me expect far worse.
I can't help what you consider to be adequate, but in the absence of wifi access, 2-3 times dialup is what Edge will generally provide (some areas are worse, a few very marginally better) and is adequate. Compared with no access it is wonderful, compared with 3G (which is nowhere near my area or much of the US) it is worse. Thus it's adequate.

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How bad can a company be?

I have 2 lines into my house. One with BT and one with Virgin Media. I placed an order with Bt to take over the Virgin Media line. So BT cancelled my existing BT line which was working perfectly and transferred the Virgin Media line onto the BT line they just cancelled. Then no broadband and no phone. I was told there was a fault on the line! There wasn't before they cancelled the line. I was told it had been fixed, I was told it hadn't been, I was told I would have phone and broadband in 24 hrs. I didn't. I was then told there was still a fault on the line despite an engineer stating unequivocally that there was no fault. I explained to BT that my son has severe learning disabilities and epilepsy and that he stops breathing when he has a seizure and we have to be able to call medics. BT told me to use my mobile phone and that he would not be regarded as a priority case!.
After another 2 hours on the phone to them today I am told that they have to put in new cables (what was wrong with the existing ones?) and that I might have phone line and broadband by June 26 - 10 days after they were just sopposed to take over a working phone line.
One would have thought that a telephone company would be able to take over a phone line - just a stretch too far for BT administration.
The Openreach engineers were very helpful and took extra time to speak to BT when at my house but to no avail.

Satellite P50T-A016. how to disable edge swipe gestures

Hello,
I have Satellite P50T-A016 laptop runing windows 8.1 and I'm attempting to turn off the charm bar. After researching various websites/forums, it appears the charm bar is hardwired into windows and Microsoft provides no option to turn it off directly.
These websites/fourms also suggest disabling edge swipes gestures will indirectly turn-off the charm bar.
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Why is edge switpes still enabled?
How to disable edge swipes?
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> I have looked at the link. It is address multifinger gestures and sensitivity. I also noticed that the link leaves the "Enable edge swipes" option selected. So I'm not sure how this link helps.
The link and the HowTO helps you to find the touchpad Synaptics settings!
It shows you where to disable or enable settings which would be also related to the touchpad edge swipes.
> Regarding the charm bar, as a desktop mode user of windows I don't use it. The only time I have used it is when I have inadvertently turn it on when I switch between mouse (default), touchpad and touschscreen. It just get in the way even when hot corners are disabled.
Well, buddy you are not alone with this opinion but this is how it works and Microsoft decided to design the Win 8/8.1 system in this way
> When the "Enable edge swipes" option deselected then right-edge gesture on the touchpad no longer triggers the charm bar opening. Great!,
Thats right and this is how it works
> However, the right-edge gesture on the touchscreen is still enabled.
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How to make Edge Animation works in HLTM5 Offline? I cache all files, but Edge didn't play.

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How bad will this hurt?

I have been considering buying a RV for a while. My boys aren't getting any younger. We currently have our house on the market. It seems like it is going to take forever to sell. My question is how bad do you think it will hurt my credit if I were to take out a small loan for approx $10,000 for a RV? My credit scores on fico 8 are around 660-670. I know waiting until after we buy a house is probably the best idea, but it just doesn't seem like it's going to sell anytime soon and I am dying to go camping and enjoy the summer with my husband and two boys.

Kyliemarie85888 wrote:
I have been considering buying a RV for a while. My boys aren't getting any younger. We currently have our house on the market. It seems like it is going to take forever to sell. My question is how bad do you think it will hurt my credit if I were to take out a small loan for approx $10,000 for a RV? My credit scores on fico 8 are around 660-670. I know waiting until after we buy a house is probably the best idea, but it just doesn't seem like it's going to sell anytime soon and I am dying to go camping and enjoy the summer with my husband and two boys.How about teaching your boys the joy of camping in a tent while hiking in the mountains or in a campground? Most boys would rather do this than hang out in a motorhome. (Motorhomes: Think retirees). I have been reading a lot about personal finance and the rule seems to be borrow only for necessities, pay cash for luxuries. Just something to think about. I know RV's can easily cost 60K - 100K or more, so I might be concerned about a 10K RV needing expensive repairs. Your boys won't be boys forever, but the important part is that you spend time with them. They don't need an RV to enjoy their parents. You could also rent a lot of nights in a nice cabin for less than 10K if you don't like sharing your bedroom space with bugs and bears.

How bad is the performance hit with RTMPT?

In a conversation with engineers recently at a CDN it was suggested to me that streaming all video over RTMPT only was a viable solution to the barriers posed by firewalls and proxies blocking port 1935. They indicated that they had seen no signifigant performance degradation with tunneling and that many of their clients were making the switch from "rollover" type connection models to connection via RTMPT only.
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I'm trying to determine the best strategy for reaching the most people with the least performance hit. A guy lays out his strategy here:
http://www.kensodev.com/2010/02/19/rtmp-being-blocked-by-firewalls-flash-media-server/
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Just how bad is this phone ? (E70 revisited)

I have actually forgotten how frustrating Nokia phones can be as I had confirmed by (then) new E70 to the bottom drawer because with the firrmware on it, it wouldn't work in my bluetooth enabled BMer.
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Next it came to the update bit. Again the process failed and again the solution was to do the little tinker with PC Suite to get past that point. In fact I got all the way to where the phone reboots, and shows the Nokia test screen. Here the phone seems to reconnect itself, but either its not fast enough or it's not connecting to the updater, because it reports that the update has failed. Sad but true.
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For those of you still here, who are in the queues for the E90, I admire your sense of endevour ! May the force be with you.

02-Oct-200705:53 PM
joevpt wrote:
You'd think... Eh!
What I found was that at various stages during the upgrade the NSU disconnects from the phone (which allows PC-Suite reconnect). When the NSU needs to reconnect, PC-Suite was holding onto the connection (because, I think, NSU only disconnects it once at the beginning... )
Regards,
Joe
Patheticlly true.

How can Adobe edge banner be used as media buy banner?

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How bad does my iPod touch battery have to be to get a replacement battery?

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Is alcohol abrasive please?
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And how bad is it to the oleophobic coating please?
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