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  1. 1 hour ago, Floradude said:

    It appears that all of the surveillance cameras were taken down.  The suspect is the cartel.  There were 7 police at the Walmart intersection when I went through a short while ago (11:45).  There are two polls down that I know of.  One on the carretera at La Florest at the statue and one at Revolucion and the carretera.   Whatever, we should probably be careful.  The original information came to me by a Mexican friend.

     

    Lots of them down. One in front of Mirasol was pulled down and is blocking the entrance.

  2. If you are really concerned about being legal you can register for a "Pase de estancia temporal" online. You specify the days that the pass is good for. Here is the translation about it: "It is a free permit to circulate in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area and the medium-sized cities of Ocotlán, Tepatitlán de Morelos and Puerto Vallarta for up to 30 calendar days per semester, without the need to verify." I believe "semester" is 6 months.

    https://emisiones.jalisco.gob.mx:4443/tramites/?fbclid=IwAR1gndfw46AdjwGUJipvg2i9PYXh1sGZCBfnKNVDb2lRZx-GXC3xHk1WH5o#/estancia_temporal

     

  3. I've had a BOA credit card for many, many years. It is a no points card, but much lower interest than points cards, though I never carry a balance on it. They constantly send me "you are preapproved for ..." mail and emails. We were going to take a big trip last Sept., so I decided to respond to a "pre-approved" offer for a new card with 0% for a year and points. I have an exceptional credit rating, but after a few weeks I received a letter that they "couldn't issue me a new card at this time". No explanation other than that, but I assume that it is because I live out of the country. I do have a US mailing address.

  4. 3 hours ago, John Shrall said:

    Trying to eliminate the possibility of a hardware problem, I had a thought. Why not run the speed tests while connected to a VPN and see what happens?

    When connected to Nord and Windscribe in both the US and Mexico the download speeds were a slower which was expected, but all the upload speed test results were north of 100mb. After closing the VPNs the upload speeds dropped again to 3.

    The term throttle comes to mind.

    With the same hardware, cables and modems returning 2 different results, it appears Totalplay is fooling with the upload speeds somewhere along the way.

    Now to see if Totalplay responds. 

     

    This is odd. I used to have throttling issue with iLox, though they would never admit it. Speedtest would show the proper upload speed, but copying a large file with scp would quickly degrade and the speed would go down to almost nothing. I have never had the problem with TotalPlay.

    Have you tried another computer via ethernet? Don't see that listed here. Have you tried different ethernet ports on the TotalPlay router? I can't see them throttling ethernet and not wireless, but the VPN thing is odd. I had an iLox router that only had 2 ethernet ports. One was 1000 mbs the other 100 mbs. Just something to check though 3 is a lot less than 100 and if you get close to 500 down that wouldn't be the issue.

    Can you use FTP or command line scp to upload something? That will give you a true test of your upload speed.

  5. On 4/24/2023 at 6:24 AM, Tingting said:

    Starlink Satellite with Telmex as backup (not needed, but just in case...). Very happy.

    I know that startlink is good, but it will be interesting to see how it is once the rainy season starts. It is a satellite and so affected by weather. I'd keep my Telmex until then. Please give a follow up report once rainy season kicks in. Thanks!

  6. 50 minutes ago, Lou Quillio said:

    Oh. I suppose that's right. 😶 "Spring ahead" means "later."

    My personal solution is to not care. Most of the time I don't know what day of the week it is. OTOH, I've been thirty-three years old since 1993, so don't go by me.

    LQ

    Yep, that's the best, don't worry about it! We'll figure the time out sooner or later!

  7. 2 hours ago, Lou Quillio said:

    Correctamundo. When the U.S. starts Daylight Time, most of Mexico will be on par with U.S. Eastern. When they go back to Standard Time, we'll be the same as U.S. Central, as we are now.

    LQ

     

    Won't we be the same as Mountain time? They are moving their clocks forward 1 hour and we stay the same. There used to be one hour difference from Eastern, now there will be 2. Mountain used to be 1 hour earlier than us, now the same. It really is pretty confusing!

  8. We are permanente, exited Mexico in a Mexican plated car late September and reentered last week. No check of our permanente card or passport by INM at any point. We did get a red light entering on Laredo bridge #2. They opened and just glanced into 2 small suitcases that were at the very back of our SUV. We had tons of other stuff, but that is all they looked at and waved us on. Took at most 5 min. There wasn't anyone in the booth at 20km, so we just drove on.

  9. 1 minute ago, Mostlylost said:

    I would be very cautious. Someone coming to my house to open an account???????   They can take money out of your account to deliver it to you????

    Their website does not list an office lakeside. 

    There has been a history in Mexico of bank failures of this type of bank. Normally the clients lose most if not all of their money.  The government office CNBV that handles bank failures,  budget was cut by AMLO and they are basically helpless

     

     

    Everyone needs to do their own due diligence. I have.

  10. On 9/9/2022 at 6:54 PM, Lou Quillio said:

    By "modern" I mean we never visit these institutions in person, because there's no need. Everything's online, and that's the way we like it. IOW, we don't make trips to "the bank" and won't be starting.

    There is a fairly new bank in the area called BX+. They provide a lot of personal services and I have never had to be inside the bank even to open the account. Call Elizabeth at 376-688-1584. Their office is in front of La Pueblita, but you can arrange for Elizabeth to come to your home to set the account up. You get a debit card and they reimburse up to 5 ATM fees a month at any ATM. They will also deliver up to 30,000 pesos to your home for a fee of 100 pesos. Much better than hanging out at ATMs! Their app is just as good as Bancomer (I have a Bancomer account too).

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  11. 30 minutes ago, NoVaDamer said:

    The key seems to be the base station for the account must access YouTube TV at least once every ninety days from the base location. If that happens, they don;t care where else you access from. Hope that helps!

     

     

    Interesting. I tried YouTube TV when it first came out and offered a free month or something like that. At least at that time the only browser they would let you use was Google Chrome (on Mac). They required you have location services enabled in the browser and so just a VPN was not enough. I found a way through developer tools to "spoof" you location and that worked. It was a real hassle though and figured it might not work forever and wasn't worth the hassle and so canceled the subscription.

  12. 6 hours ago, RickS said:

    It's strange (to me) that a Generac unit sold in Mexico would not come with the propane orifice installed as natural gas is almost non-existent here?

     

     

    I bought a gas dryer from Home Depot in Guad. 10 or so years ago. Asked the salesman multiple times if it was set up for propane and he said it was. It worked fine for about 6 months and then died. When they came out to fix they said it was because it was set up for natural gas and so wasn't covered on warranty and wasn't set up properly. I had installed it, so couldn't really argue, but I had asked. Cost about $100 US to fix.

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