Re: AT&T Fiber and Router Questions
On Jul 13, 2023, at 8:37 AM, Beth Phillips <beth.phillips@...> wrote: Based on your recommendations we may give the AT&T equipment a try first, then go from there if we feel it’s not giving us the signal strength or speed expected.
That’s what I did. The only reason I changed was the WiFi didn’t give a good signal out on the deck and at the farthest side of the master bedroom where we have a TV+Roku.
AT&T gave me a rebranded Arris BGW210 router. The box is annoyingly large, probably because it supports both Ethernet and POTS. (We don’t have POTS.) ?My son got a different, smaller, nicer, POTS-less Arris when he signed up for AT&T fiber a couple of years ago.
Our router is old enough that they no longer push out updates, so if we do end up needing one, it’s probably time to upgrade. That’s reason enough to get an upgrade. Old routers are a juicy target for malefactors setting up botnets, and many of the older ones had terribly insecure firmware.
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Re: AT&T Fiber and Router Questions
Thanks Jonathan and Lee!
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Based on your recommendations we may give the AT&T equipment a try first, then go from there if we feel it’s not giving us the signal strength or speed expected.
Our router is old enough that they no longer push out updates, so if we do end up needing one, it’s probably time to upgrade.
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Re: AT&T Fiber and Router Questions
On Jul 12, 2023, at 2:43 PM, Beth Phillips <beth.phillips@...> wrote: I'm not much on networking, so looking for some advice. Our neighborhood recently gained access to AT&T fiber service and we are wanting to upgrade. With our current AT&T service we have their modem/router and then we have a separate Linksys router set to bridge mode that we use to handle all our devices. It has several nice features that allow me to map/identify all our devices, do port forwarding and it supports both 2G and 5G networks as well as a Guest network. The router is old so I'm sure it won't support the new fiber network speeds. Just wondering, do we even need a separate router behind the one provided with AT&T Fiber these days? Any advice/info from anyone using AT&T fiber is appreciated.?
I’ve had AT&T fiber for several years. They unfortunately require that you use their gateway/router, which is actually not a bad device. The one I have is really an Arris BGW210 stamped with the AT&T logo. AT&T doesn’t give you much information, but you can learn its fine points by downloading the manual from Arris.?
When I first got it, I used it as my router and WiFi source. It worked fine, but I found the WiFi was actually pretty weak, so I switched to a Synology DS220+ router downstream from the Arris, which is set in dumb pass through mode.
I consistently get up and down speeds exceeding 900 Mb/s over Ethernet with this combination. Here’s what I saw a couple of minutes ago. (It might actually be a little faster, but my wife is streaming a movie upstairs.)
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Re: AT&T Fiber and Router Questions
Beth, you can totally get away with just using AT&T’s modem/router/wifi access point. If you have a router that you really like, though, you can do the same thing you are already doing to take more control of your local network. The only thing your router would need is to be able to handle gigabit speeds on the WAN port. It wouldn’t hurt to give it a try and see if it throttled your speed or not. Then you can decide whether you want to get a new router or just the AT&T one. I would highly recommend the AT&T gigabit service. It is awesome. Jonathan On Jul 12, 2023, at 2:43 PM, Beth Phillips <beth.phillips@...> wrote:
I'm not much on networking, so looking for some advice. Our neighborhood recently gained access to AT&T fiber service and we are wanting to upgrade. With our current AT&T service we have their modem/router and then we have a separate Linksys router set to bridge mode that we use to handle all our devices. It has several nice features that allow me to map/identify all our devices, do port forwarding and it supports both 2G and 5G networks as well as a Guest network. The router is old so I'm sure it won't support the new fiber network speeds. Just wondering, do we even need a separate router behind the one provided with AT&T Fiber these days? Any advice/info from anyone using AT&T fiber is appreciated.
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AT&T Fiber and Router Questions
I'm not much on networking, so looking for some advice. Our neighborhood recently gained access to AT&T fiber service and we are wanting to upgrade. With our current AT&T service we have their modem/router and then we have a separate Linksys router set to bridge mode that we use to handle all our devices. It has several nice features that allow me to map/identify all our devices, do port forwarding and it supports both 2G and 5G networks as well as a Guest network. The router is old so I'm sure it won't support the new fiber network speeds. Just wondering, do we even need a separate router behind the one provided with AT&T Fiber these days? Any advice/info from anyone using AT&T fiber is appreciated.?
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Scrambled email addresses
Any way to make email addresses not scrambled using gmail in Safari. OS 13.4.1
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On Jul 4, 2023, at 5:49 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <hejb44@...> wrote: Perhaps the developers of the other mail programs you use will be doing similar things to make their programs compatible.?
This is what SmallCubed says about MailSuite and their future plans.
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Hey Lee and Macusers. I emailed the developer of SpamSieve asking what he plans to do to make SpamSieve compatible with Sonoma. His response is below.? Lee, Perhaps the developers of the other mail programs you use will be doing similar things to make their programs compatible.?
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Date: July 4, 2023 at 5:18:10 PM EDT
To: Harry Jacobson-Beyer <hejb44@...>
Subject: Re: Apple Sonoma
? Hi Harry,Yes, there is more information about this here: ???https://forum.c-command.com/t/spamsieve-public-beta-and-macos-14-sonoma/15077--Michael-- Michael TsaiC-Command SoftwareOn Jul 4, 2023, at 4:08 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <hejb44@...> wrote:
Please see https://c-command.com/spamsieve/help/what-information-should for what information to include in your e-mail.
I am using SpamSieve 2.9.52 on macOS Ventura 13.4.1
I understand when MacOS 14 (Sonoma) is released plugin programs for Apple Mail will not work anymore because ?Apple is removing extension suppor from mail.
Is SpamSieve developing a version to work with Sonoma?
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Most likely I’m the only person experiencing this, we currently live in an apartment complex. ??
One TV in the living room, one in my office. ?Every so often I’ll come into the office to find my TV on, strange.
Then last night around 1:00 A.M., I’m working and see my TV turn on and a woman’s name and her digit passcode to begin viewing what she wants on my TV.?
I looked it up, and the explanation is below, I’ll change my Apple TV names and set up the Password, each day I learn something.
Have a great 4th.
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My neighbour access to my apple tv!Hello,
I'll try to make this as clear as possible (sorry for the potential mistakes, english is just a 2nd language).
I own an Apple TV 4. I am connected to my own network, ISP being Orange (french one).
My neighbour, at the 3rd floor (I live at the 4th floor), also owns an Apple TV 4. He is connected to Internet through another ISP, Numericable (also french one). When he tries to connect from his iPad to his Apple TV, he also sees mine (which on a different network) and when, by mistake, he tries to connect to mine and not his, it turns on my TV! Then, I see a screen with 4 boxes where a passcode is required. But I see the name of his iPad, or his iPhone.
Why that? How can he see my AppleTv and succeed to turn it on?!
How can I keep him for doing so? (and everyone else to access to my device in fact...)
thank you! Olivier Mac OS X (10.5.6) Posted on Nov 12, 2016 6:29 AM You could be encountering peer to peer AirPlay which allows others that are in close proximity to AirPlay to an Apple TV without having to be logged onto your wifi network. In flats and apartments this can also include neighbours. Whilst it won’t stop others trying to AirPlay to your Apple TV, to cover the possibility that it may be being done by accident, you may wish to think whether the name of your Apple TV is sufficient to deter accidentally trying to connect. You can change the name of your Apple TV at Settings > General > About > Name. You can also set your AirPlay security settings to avoid those you don’t want being able to AirPlay to your Apple TV or ensure that the message you have seen stops. There are two types of password protection for AirPlay. The first is an on-screen passcode, in which the Apple TV will display a four number password on screen, which you must enter into your mobile device before AirPlay can be enabled. This is typically to ensure that users are in the room where the TV is, before enabling AirPlay. This typically protects against disruptive behaviour from someone somewhere else while someone is trying to use AirPlay. The second is a hidden password password which needs to be remembered by all users who will have access to AirPlay, unless you share this password with others. This method doesn’t lend itself well to use by guests unless you tell them your password but it does mean that accidental attempts from others don’t disturb you. You can turn either type of protection on or off by navigating to Settings > AirPlay. Posted on Nov 12, 2016 2:24 PM
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Attached is a pdf of an email Apple has sent out regarding “My Photo Stream.”
I am clueless. I use the photos app on my iPhone and on my computer and occasionally check photos in iCloud. I’m not sure how that applies to “My Photo Stream.” Or how “My Photo Stream” applies to Photos in the Photos app on my iPhone and computer and iCloud.
Please, my friends, illuminate and elucidate me!
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Re: How to get rid of these pest?
Lee,
This was an app I did not know about. If you find a replacement for it when Sonoma comes out, please share on this list. Thanks.
Harry
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On Jun 29, 2023, at 2:31 PM, Lee Larson via groups.io <leelarson@...> wrote:
On Jun 29, 2023, at 12:25 PM, Jonathan Fletcher <lists@...> wrote:
What are your favorite features in MailSuite, Lee? I was using it for Send Later, but that was added recently to Apple Mail, so I didn’t need it any more. I had to think about this reply because I’ve grown so used to Act-On it seems like part of Apple’s mail. It was tricky to remember what’s in the mail program and what’s been grafted on by Act-On.
I organize my mail with MailTags instead of having a myriad confusing mail folders. Most of my saved mail ends up in a few folders which I can search using tags.
Lots of special Act-On keystrokes are programmed do all sorts of things like set up mail templates, magically file and tag messages, automatically forward mail, address to groups and other such things. It really streamlines things when handling lots of mail or doing repetitive tasks. For example, I have a special address to which students submit assignments. Act-On is used to acknowledge receipt, tag and file the messages, and format the reply after I’ve graded the submission.
SigPro customizes signatures depending on the address from which my reply is being sent. I regularly use four different accounts and have custom signatures for each one. It also handles the random quotations you see at the bottom of some of my emails.
There are numerous other pieces of MailSuite I don’t use. Maybe Bill can fill in a few more uses.
Some of this stuff can be duplicated with scripting, but I’m not sure how scriptable the new mail will be because of the lack of scripting for mail, or much of anything, in iOS.
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Re: How to get rid of these pest?
On Jun 29, 2023, at 14:31, Lee Larson via groups.io <leelarson@...> wrote:
On Jun 29, 2023, at 12:25 PM, Jonathan Fletcher <lists@...> wrote:
What are your favorite features in MailSuite, Lee? I was using it for Send Later, but that was added recently to Apple Mail, so I didn’t need it any more. I had to think about this reply because I’ve grown so used to Act-On it seems like part of Apple’s mail. It was tricky to remember what’s in the mail program and what’s been grafted on by Act-On.
I organize my mail with MailTags instead of having a myriad confusing mail folders. Most of my saved mail ends up in a few folders which I can search using tags.
Lots of special Act-On keystrokes are programmed do all sorts of things like set up mail templates, magically file and tag messages, automatically forward mail, address to groups and other such things. It really streamlines things when handling lots of mail or doing repetitive tasks. For example, I have a special address to which students submit assignments. Act-On is used to acknowledge receipt, tag and file the messages, and format the reply after I’ve graded the submission.
SigPro customizes signatures depending on the address from which my reply is being sent. I regularly use four different accounts and have custom signatures for each one. It also handles the random quotations you see at the bottom of some of my emails.
There are numerous other pieces of MailSuite I don’t use. Maybe Bill can fill in a few more uses. Not really. I kept all my work email in one big folder and used MailTags to organize things ... which is way easier than folders, because multiple tags on one mail is the equivalent of the mail being in multiple folders at once. Also, the place I worked at had a strange home-built way of filing email into virtual folders for everyone to see, and MailTags (plus scripts) allowed me to quickly move the email to the company server in the right place. Finally, there can be more complicated rules (as Lee pointed out) which make life simpler for complicated but repetitive tasks. I, too, have to think about which features are in Apple Mail and which are in MailTags. I hope Lee is wrong (but bet he's not) about everything moving to a single codebase for iOS and macOS. This would really make me want to use my computer even less, because the thing I don't like about using my phone for anything serious and the reason I've never gotten a tablet is that the mobile OSes are just to useless to me. All that good effort that went into making the Mac into a really nice useful interface ends up fading into the mishmash of a mobile OS. Bill
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Re: How to get rid of these pest?
Thanks for taking the time, Lee. That’s a good list. Jonathan On Jun 29, 2023, at 2:31 PM, Lee Larson via groups.io <leelarson@...> wrote:
On Jun 29, 2023, at 12:25 PM, Jonathan Fletcher <lists@...> wrote:
What are your favorite features in MailSuite, Lee? I was using it for Send Later, but that was added recently to Apple Mail, so I didn’t need it any more. I had to think about this reply because I’ve grown so used to Act-On it seems like part of Apple’s mail. It was tricky to remember what’s in the mail program and what’s been grafted on by Act-On.
I organize my mail with MailTags instead of having a myriad confusing mail folders. Most of my saved mail ends up in a few folders which I can search using tags.
Lots of special Act-On keystrokes are programmed do all sorts of things like set up mail templates, magically file and tag messages, automatically forward mail, address to groups and other such things. It really streamlines things when handling lots of mail or doing repetitive tasks. For example, I have a special address to which students submit assignments. Act-On is used to acknowledge receipt, tag and file the messages, and format the reply after I’ve graded the submission.
SigPro customizes signatures depending on the address from which my reply is being sent. I regularly use four different accounts and have custom signatures for each one. It also handles the random quotations you see at the bottom of some of my emails.
There are numerous other pieces of MailSuite I don’t use. Maybe Bill can fill in a few more uses.
Some of this stuff can be duplicated with scripting, but I’m not sure how scriptable the new mail will be because of the lack of scripting for mail, or much of anything, in iOS.
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Re: How to get rid of these pest?
On Jun 29, 2023, at 12:25 PM, Jonathan Fletcher <lists@...> wrote: What are your favorite features in MailSuite, Lee? I was using it for Send Later, but that was added recently to Apple Mail, so I didn’t need it any more.?
I had to think about this reply because I’ve grown so used to Act-On it seems like part of Apple’s mail. It was tricky to remember what’s in the mail program and what’s been grafted on by Act-On.
I organize my mail with MailTags instead of having a myriad confusing mail folders. Most of my saved mail ends up in a few folders which I can search using tags.
Lots of special Act-On keystrokes are programmed do all sorts of things like set up mail templates, magically file and tag messages, automatically forward mail, address to groups and other such things. It really streamlines things when handling lots of mail or doing repetitive tasks. For example, I have a special address to which students submit assignments. Act-On is used to acknowledge receipt, tag and file the messages, and format the reply after I’ve graded the submission.
SigPro customizes signatures depending on the address from which my reply is being sent. I regularly use four different accounts and have custom signatures for each one. It also handles the random quotations you see at the bottom of some of my emails.
There are numerous other pieces of MailSuite I don’t use. Maybe Bill can fill in a few more uses.
Some of this stuff can be duplicated with scripting, but I’m not sure how scriptable the new mail will be because of the lack of scripting for mail, or much of anything, in iOS.
L^2
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Re: How to get rid of these pest?
On Jun 29, 2023, at 1:24 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <hejb44@...> wrote: Lee, do you know why Apple is removing extension support from mail?
All I’ve read for sure is … mumble … mumble … security … mumble …
My guess is they are trying to use the same code base on iOS and MacOS. Since iOS mail has not allowed plugins, they’ve decreed none of their mail programs shall have plugins.
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Re: How to get rid of these pest?
I would ask what MailSuite is/does but since it is going away it’s not important. :-)
Lee, do you know why Apple is removing extension support from mail?
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Apple giveth and Apple taketh away.
::-(
What are your favorite features in MailSuite, Lee? I was using it for Send Later, but that was added recently to Apple Mail, so I didn’t need it any more.
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On Jun 28, 2023, at 9:28 PM, Lee Larson via groups.io <leelarson@...> wrote:
On Jun 27, 2023, at 5:29 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <hejb44@...> wrote:
I don’t have the abundance of junk mail you do but about every 1-2 weeks I empty my junk mail folder.
I also use spam sieve which installs a “spam” folder in mail and it catches a ton of stuff - don’t even bother to look at. I also empty that folder regularly. The spam folder collects a lot more spam / junk than the junk mail folder.
What’s going to happen to SpamSieve when Sonoma (MacOS 14) is released? The plugin programs for Apple’s mail are not going to work any more because Apple is removing extension suppor from mail.
For example, SmallCubed has already announced that MailSuite won’t work any more. I’m trying to figure out what I’m going to do without it because I use various parts of it a lot.
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Re: How to get rid of these pest?
Apple giveth and Apple taketh away. ::-( What are your favorite features in MailSuite, Lee? I was using it for Send Later, but that was added recently to Apple Mail, so I didn’t need it any more. Jonathan On Jun 28, 2023, at 9:28 PM, Lee Larson via groups.io <leelarson@...> wrote:
On Jun 27, 2023, at 5:29 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <hejb44@...> wrote:
I don’t have the abundance of junk mail you do but about every 1-2 weeks I empty my junk mail folder.
I also use spam sieve which installs a “spam” folder in mail and it catches a ton of stuff - don’t even bother to look at. I also empty that folder regularly. The spam folder collects a lot more spam / junk than the junk mail folder.
What’s going to happen to SpamSieve when Sonoma (MacOS 14) is released? The plugin programs for Apple’s mail are not going to work any more because Apple is removing extension suppor from mail.
For example, SmallCubed has already announced that MailSuite won’t work any more. I’m trying to figure out what I’m going to do without it because I use various parts of it a lot.
L^2
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On Jun 27, 2023, at 5:29 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <hejb44@...> wrote: I don’t have the abundance of junk mail you do but about every 1-2 weeks I empty my junk mail folder.
I also use spam sieve which installs a “spam” folder in mail and it catches a ton of stuff - don’t even bother to look at. I also empty that folder regularly. The spam folder collects a lot more spam / junk than the junk mail folder.
What’s going to happen to SpamSieve when Sonoma (MacOS 14) is released? The plugin programs for Apple’s mail are not going to work any more because Apple is removing extension suppor from mail.
For example, SmallCubed has already announced that MailSuite won’t work any more. I’m trying to figure out what I’m going to do without it because I use various parts of it a lot.
L^2
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