Yes sorry I posted before having my first coffee of the day. I said oscillator but really it would be the low/high pass filters that keep everything that shouldn't be transmitted away from the antenna. Thanks for the correction.

If the keyless entry is in the 314mhz (thrid harmonic) range then it could possibly be interference. A poorly controlled oscillator can cause this.

What upsets most people (in the western free mark world) isn't that they make a profit. It's that the companies don't reinvest some of that profit in actually increasing capacity. They (the companies) just complain about to much traffic and crank on the rates again. That and there is a complete lack of competition and almost zero ability for a new entry in the market. This makes it at best an oligopoly and at worst a monopoly in 99% of the towns and cities.

Also why do republican morons always think that the democrats/liberals are against profit?

Oh look its the big scary socialists again. They don't want anybody to own anything! See they want corporations and millionaires to pay TAXES!!!!

AC is a moron

Of course they are. Just like the telco's and long distance charges. The lines where long paid for but they just keep say that to many people are making LD calls so to help increase the number we need more money. All the while they don't actually increase capacity and just pocket the money.

How we solve this I don't know. The only thing I can think of is to move to the ISP's that aren't gouging as much as the next guy. I know that's hard. I also live in a small town and have very limited choices of ISP's.

Here's one way to try and save your self some money. Buy shares in the ISP (if public). Just like the banks. Try and get some shares so you to can get in on the profits. Yes again easier said then done. I don't have solutions for everything and everyone just ideas, and not always good ones.

The USA is a lost cause. I say we block off the boarders with them as much as possible and just let them slide off in to oblivion. Once they kill themselves off, maybe then we can let them back in to the world.

My country may not be much better but at least we have some sense when it comes to firearms.

And that's why America is now a police state.

So once we do away with all that pesky ice will we have more land to grow crops? The hardest thing to do will be to convince everyone who will be flooded out not to leave and just learn to breath underwater. So it's all win win for those of us in the middle of the continents. Less people to feed and more arid land to grow crops on.

You do realize that they supply the USA with oil and hence they really can't condemn them and don't care to even try.

After many years of begging I finally broke down and got a xbox 360 to replace the aging Wii. I got the Halo 4 version since my son loves the Halo games. The game is rated teen but him and his friends have been playing it for a couple of years now. BTW he's also 9 (turning ten early next year). Now he just has to wait until Christmas and no he doesn't know he's getting it.

Ubiquity is really awesome gear and I've used their WiFi (802.11a/b/g) stuff for a few years now.

I had thought about doing the same sort of thing in my rural area and one suggestion I would make is this... Get a FCC license for your wireless (like the 3GHz range). This way you can keep people from trying to hack your signal a bit. Yes I know determined people can and will try but being in a license part of the spectrum mitigates this a bit.

Ubiquity has this type of gear and may even have some suggestions on how to get licensed. They also where able to provide me with a map of the area which gave me a really good idea of how far my signal could go with out putting up repeaters and such.

Many kids (my parents included) spent a lot of time working on the farm when they where kids. They even managed to find time to go to school and get their diploma and then on to university and then out in to the work force. Yes this was back in the 50's and 60's but it did happen. What it did do was give them a good work ethic that they passed along to me. I wish I could work my kids like I was and my parents. Living in the city they just don't get a chance to and their work ethic suffers because of it. We try to use other ways to instill this and yes they have their chores but it's nothing like what I grew up with.

Children working is not wrong. What is wrong is children slaving away making shoes and other goods for little or no money. Working along side your family is not slavery not to mention learning skills needed to take over the operation when your parents retire. At least the kids working on the farm are usually fed and clothed and have a roof over their heads.

I live across the street from my office. Benefits of living in a small town. Use to take me over 30 minutes when I lived in the big city.

On the Beach was a great novel. Very depressing. Even the movie was really depressing for 1959. Like you I was only able to read it once then watched the movie. Not sure I would ever read it again but only because of the feeling of emptiness I had when I was done.

I cut the cord about 3 years ago now. Dropped the satellite and cable subs (except for cable internet). Our big screen now only receives OTA and we get 5 channels here (we're in western Canada) and no US broadcasts as we're to far away from the border. Just about everything we want is OTA so it's no problem. To record those OTA's I'm using a myth box with a 1TB drive, a couple of tuner cards and us the HDMI out. I do have a sub for tv listings but that's only 20 buck a year (maybe 25 I can't remember). A second myth box to stream recorded to the upstairs. For everything else we just use a wireless mount/keyboard to surf the network web sites to watch or we use the bluray player for netflix. For things we can't get any other way we get the DVD's from the library when they come out (12 bucks a year). Besides we found once we cut the cable we started reading more, going out side more, talking more. All of those things that TV zaps out of you. Do your self a favour and send the kids out side to play, and maybe go with them.