I haven't had a land line for almost 20 years now, but I have always had home internet, first an ADSL connection from our phone company (that is via regular copper phone lines) and since February 2017 I had a fiber connections. At first I think only 100 Mbps download and 10 or 20 Mbps upload were available as the maximum, but by now the regional provider which put in the infrastructure here in our small town is offering Gigabit speed, but I don't think they yet offer speeds beyond that. As it's just my wife and I, there is no need for us to even have Gigabit speed, why pay more for something we don't need; it's not like any music or movie streaming works better once you get past a certain speed and I really don't care if I download a 1 Gb Audible book whether it takes 5 seconds or 15 seconds.
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Vicky Collins Sent: Friday, August 30, 2024 10:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Light Detector app gone? Oh, thanks much for the Seeing A I reminder! I had forgotten about that. I really will use that app quite often to tell whether the lights are on or off here in my apartment. I've been with AT&T forever it seems, but when I moved back to Kentucky to be near the rest of my family after retiring from work, I found that they did not have internet service here, so I just went with the two cell phone lines but no home phone number or cable or internet. If I ever decide I want to change things and get home internet, although I'll likely not get another landline phone, Spectrum does provide high-speed internet service here. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 30, 2024, at 11:22 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: I can't speak for the Light Detector app, but you could just use the Seeing AI app which has a Light Detector channel and of course it has all the other stuff. May I ask why you choose to have 2 iPhones or actually 3 from the sound of it, but no Wi-Fi? Is there no fiber or cable internet service available where you live? I have family who live in a very remote location of Northern British Columbia and for many years they used their phones and the hotspot feature to connect to the internet with laptop and so on, but they now all have Starlink because in my opinion you never get as seemless of an experience using an iPhone as a hotspot as you do if you have a high speed internet connection and a good router which can support both wired and wireless connections. And of course if you ever want to use things like an Apple TV or home automation devices like door locks, doorbell or security cameras, Wi-Fi enabled thermostats, switches etc. Wi-Fi is pretty much a requirement. I honestly could never even remotely see myself not wanting to have a fast fiber internet connection and a good router, in my case we use a Netgear Orby mesh router with 1 satellite and even though I bought it in October of 2018, almost 6 years ago, it has never failed or let me down. All my Sonos speakers and home automation devices are connected and are stable and rock solid. I have it set to do automatic firmware updates and probably only ever log into it a couple of times a year for whatever reason. Same applies to my business where I have the same router but the Pro/business model, also bought just about at the same time. It just works as Steve Jobs used to say. Take care, Sieghard From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 30, 2024 7:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Light Detector app gone? Have any of you tried to download the Light Detector app lately? With me here in the United States, I’m no longer able to get it from the app store, although I am still able to use it on two of my three iPhones. When I couldn’t get any service on my iPhone 13 Mini on Tuesday, but I could get service on the 12 Mini, I somehow thought the problem was on my end and erased the 13 Mini and then restored it using the quick startup feature with my still working iPhone 12 Mini. Since all of my iPhones are set to be as much alike as their software will allow, I could do that. And while I still had no service on that iPhone after the first restore, I erased and tried again. And by that time, apparently AT&T had resolved the issue and I once again had service, but the Light Detector app just wasn’t available to me anymore. I was kind of surprised, though, as the app had indeed been available when I set up my iPhone 15 Pro in early June, but I was now told that the app was no longer available in the app store. A couple of side notes here, just because. I still thought the problem was with my 13 Mini until I got a text message from AT&T today saying I would get a credit because of the outage on Tuesday. I then went and looked on the web and saw the story about the network issues on Tuesday. Also, although I’m still using my two iPhone Mini phones right now, my iPhone 15 Pro is all set up and ready to go once my iPhone 12 Mini battery gets to 80% and I send it back to Apple for an Apple gift card. 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