Saved by TM -- and a cautionary tale
I synchronize my files between multiple computers using sugarsync. I just got to realize this can be dangerous. Something got screwed up on one computer (yes, a vista computer, not a mac!), and through some sequence of events, sugarsync interpreted this so that all files in my document folder had been deleted. It went ahead and deleted first all files online, and then all the files on my document folder on my Mac! This is the danger of online syncing (and I think this is not unique to sugarsync). If something goes wrong and the syncing program interprets this as file delete, it will delete the files everywhere. I thought the syncing gave me an extra layer of defense against data loss, but it actually resulted in the worse case of data loss I every experienced. Those files represent 10 years of work.
Fortunately, I had a TM backup, and I was able to restore everything from there. But not without issues. First, I tried to restore the whole document folder, and it told me I have insufficient privileges. Then I tried to 'select all' in the document folder, but again it came out with insufficient privileges. I had to select each subfolder separately and restore, and it seems that all has been restored. But this 'insufficient privileges' message is quit imprecise (what item?), and makes me a little worried not all has been restored.
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FIOS has changed my IP twice since and my home network runs without a hitch. I have a HUB set up, PS3. Non fios tv, IP phone etc etc etcMy Verizon router is not a router. Bridge only. No WAN ports used on my Actiontec. Who needs support? The only reason I would call is if my service stopped working, or slowed down to a problem. I am not most people. My router is a Linux box with a single core CPU, 512meg of RAM, 80 gig drive, and two network cards. Logs everything for 90 days.
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A cautionary tale - being a long time VZW customer in good standing gets you nowhere
Here is a cautionary tale about how being a long time VZW customer in good standing counts for nothing.
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Now in the meantime, back in 2011, my wife wanted to upgrade her phone. Either because her prior phone wasn't up for an upgrade or due to us just not paying attention, we somehow apparently "transferred" the upgrade that available for our in-laws' definitely-not-smart flip phone to my wife's phone. Now, since it was the upgrade of the $10 per-month flip phone we used to upgrade the Droid, it was the contract of the $10-per-month flip phone that got renewed into another 2-year cycle - not the Droid.
Also in the meantime, I upgraded my Samsung Rogue to a Galaxy S3. At the same time, I modified our plan to the Share Everything plan. Because of the nature of this plan, the 3rd phone, the crappy Coupe flip phone, that used to be $10 per month increased to $30 per month. When I signed my own new contract, I specifically asked at the VZW store whether it would be simple to drop the Coupe from the plan, because I was not sure how much longer our brother in law would need it. They said sure, it would not be a problem. Drop it whenever you need to, and your bill will go down $30 per month!
Now we come to the end of 2012 when my brother in law does not need this phone anymore, and in fact returned it to us. It is sitting here collecting dust. I called VZW today to remove it from our account. Can you see where this is going? Because we triggered the new contract for this phone by upgrading my wife's OTHER phone back in 2011, the Coupe is still under contract. So our choice is apparently keep paying $30 per month until June for a phone that used to only cost $10 per month and that no one is using, or pay a $150 termination fee.
I understand how this works contractually. But the big picture is that we have been good customers for many years, have been paying for 3 phones on our account for several of those years, and one of those phones is no longer being used (the usage is literally 0). But can we drop that phone from our contract now that we have been paying on it for multiple years? Nooooo. I was misled by VZW agents when I upgraded our plan to one that increased the cost of this phone from $10 per month to $30 per month that removing it would not be a problem. A cheap flip-phone phone, which is probably physically worth $5 in hardware, if that, and which itself has never been upgraded since it was purchased several years ago, cannot be removed from our account. When it's all said and done we will end up paying vastly more than the phone and its usage is actually worth because VZW "got us" with the contract shenanigans. Congratulations, Verizon Wireless, well played.
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Perhaps I muddied the water with all the history of the third phone. The distilled version is this: We have 3 phones on our account, two smart phones and one ancient flip phone. Only two of the three are still under contract, so there is one we are free to drop at any time. And we would indeed like to drop one phone from the account. It would be in VZWs best interest to have the phone we drop be the one they make the least amount of money from. That would be the flip phone. It is in our best interest to drop the phone that is no longer in use. That is the flip phone. Seems like a win-win situation to me!
But because of the the way contracts are structured, if we are to drop a phone, it needs to be the Droid, because that's the one now beyond the contract period. So we would drop the phone that VZW makes more money from, and that we still use. This is in the best interest of neither of us.
Yes, I'm trying to terminate early the contract we have on the flip phone. But on the other hand, we are willing to continue making monthly payments on a more expensive phone that is NOT under contract anymore. It seems like there's an easy fix: let us drop the flip phone, and heck, go ahead and put the Droid back onto contract for what would have been the duration of the flip phone contract. The inflexibility and inability to do something like this is what's irritating.
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Our phone line was faulty over 2 months ago, and after doing all the checks advised, we got an engineer out. We were told it would be unlikely we would be charged, but could be. I watched the engineer fix the central white box. So over 2months later on Wednesday I got a shock when I opened my bill thro email and the £129.99 is coming out of my account on Monday. The engineers report says that he worked on internal wiring, I thought that the central white box was not part of this, so I wouldn't be charged. Alas, I was wrong. I have been chastised for complaining at all-could of checked my bill online 3 days earlier and had more warning, should of known that I could be charged up to 6 months after engineer visit - who new!!! Certainly not me!!!!! Have spoken to 3 different departments and all 3 staff have been so busy telling me why I have no right to be upset a few weeks before Xmas that an extra £129.99 is coming out my account, that no one once said sorry that I am unhappy. I am so glad that I have funds to cover it. But a cautionary tale and has made me get my finger out and change to Sky which is £11 a month cheaper for me and the same broadband speed. So farewell to BT, I will not miss you.
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