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  1. It came back here in upper Ajijic as well. Oh and the Chapala weather station came back at 8:03 PM and then bounced to 8:09 PM. I guess and hope things are back to normal showing normal times and just now Telmex is coming on and off. It went off again. Oh well. hopefully all will be working Tuesday. have a great evening.
  2. I have talked to 5 persons. All had the same symptoms. Also down is my telcel internet. All I have is Telecable and it is coming in at faster than I am paying for. I am paying for 5 down and here is what I am getting
  3. Since about 5:30 PM my Telmex infinitum internet has been down. Although all of the lights on my modem are yellow or green or good I can not connect to the internet with Infinitum whether I try with WiFi or with a cable from the modem to my laptop. I couldn't connect to infinitum using my smart phone either. This is the first time all the lights are green or yellow blinking on and off that I don't have infinitum. Usually when I don't have internet , a light is not on or it is red. I wonder if I am the only person having problems or not. Chances are that if you are having problems you wont be able to read this message unless you have a back up internet connection which in my case I do. If some of you are having problems I would love to know that I am not the only one. Edit:Just phoned a neighbor whose infinitum was down also
  4. The number was written with incorrect spacing. The area code for Guadalajara is 33 1, 33 2, 33 3, and one day even larger, there are just too many people for 331, that's why now they write 33 1xxx-xxxx.33-2xxx-xxx, 33-3xxx-xxxx and soon 33-4xxx-xxxx 33-5xxx-xxxx I assume the person is posting about a Guadalajara number like most of our cell phones have or a Guadalajara landline, It could be written as shown below 33 2340 7501.
  5. Oh, gosh, so do my older forms. I had never read that section because that is meant for the officials to fill out only, and not for me to fill out.
  6. I just flew in Thursday. my FMM that I could have gotten a while back, I have no idea, did not have a square to indicate Residente Permanente . I was at a presentation by immigration officials for the foreigners earlier this year. They did not mention anything about new FMMs. I was told to write in pencil at the top of my form "Residente Permanente" although, I have never done that before, it worked just the same as when I showed my Residente Permanente card and stated in Spanish that I was a Residente Permanente. They also stated that when choosing an option about the "purpose of trip" that I should mark other.
  7. Hey. Hope every thing is going well. Me? I'm packing and will be offline accept for short breaks when I am in an Airport Wednesday and busy much of Thursday getting supplies, signing documents about my employee's insurance etc

    By Friday afternoon I will be active again

  8. I have Telcel with the Amigo Plan (I can pay up to 60 days in advance and carry my old balance forward when I pay more) It is not the most economical plan, but I can call any number in the US that I want when I am in the US. It is just rather expensive. Telcel has better plans when traveling to the US.
  9. Mike the computer guy knows better than I. I thought that your IP # remained the same as long as there is no connection interruption. Please correct me Mike, if I am wrong.
  10. That is how I first met him. He was always so helpful. And he really knew the correct answers and helped many to better understand Telmex and/or how to appeal a possible overcharge.
  11. Yes he was a wonderful person and he shall missed by many, myself included.
  12. I had always heard that Todd Stong was supposed to be one of the most knowledgeable experts about the lake around. And although I don't like swimming in the lake, if he says its safe in certain or all areas of the lake, I will believe him.
  13. Thank you Go Solar for correcting us. How long have they been doing this?
  14. I sure hope I am wrong, Jim. But I did read that the channels were being slowly moved to the new satellite. They did no use the word ALL, but that is what I believe they are doing.
  15. But the big question is, is it true as has been suggested that the MPEG-4 channels will only be placed on the replacement satellite, Anik G-1 which we can not pick up in Mexico. Remember that the average life of a satellite is about 15 years (I read that somewhere) and by 2020 Anik F1R and Anik F2 will be over 15 years old while Anik G1 went active in 2013 and will be only 7 years old.
  16. As CFE became more reliable fewer and fewer people have been putting battery back systems in. In fact some if not most solar companies don't even install them anymore. First you used the singular word battery. I needed or need 8 batteries, They Trojan deep cell 6 volt golf cart batteries and they are very expensive and because I did not use them very often mine lasted more than 7 years. I don't remember the added costs because the system was installed inl ate 2007 and went active in early 2008 But it was a lot more than $1,000
  17. Esun told me the same thing, I had been saving up for a long time and then two months before they started this I had an outage to 2/3 of my panels because of an error I made. (I have an old fashioned battery back up system and didn't re-order my deep cell batteries on time.) To make a long story short, I used up my credit several months before they would have wiped them out for the first time. What I do now is if I have a little extra power before the end of the year I heat the house with an electric heater rather than give anything to them to erase. Oh, several long time users say that their accounts weren't zero-ed out. Who knows
  18. Gosh REC I hope you are right. That gives us a few more years. I hope I misunderstood the technician I was talking to at Shaw Direct.
  19. Sadly I am saying that all of the signals from the two older satellites that one can receive in all of Mexico and much of Central America are being moved to a newer satellite Anik G1 which sadly has it's signals better centered on Canada. Sure the signals bleed over the Canadian border, in fact with a larger satellite dish the signals will reach northern California, but certainly not as far south as Mexico. This satellite is already in operation, so it is a known fact that the signals wont reach Mexico. I will miss Shaw Direct; it has been broadcasting signals to Mexico since 2 AM Feb 21, 2001 when Anik F1 went active; Sadly I wont be able to stream many of those stations I love.
  20. Between last April and mid year 2020 Shaw Direct is slowly moving its programming from the two older satellites Anik F1R and Anik F 2 to a newer satellite Anik G1. They will also be upgrading the compression methods to MPEG 4. The problem for those of us in Mexico is that the footprint from this newer satellite does not reach Mexico, So as was explained to me, we are slowly loosing all of our Shaw Direct Channels, Now for those of us who also live up north, we will need a new LNB to receive the signals from this newer bird and receivers that will receive MPEG 4. I think the 600 series receivers do. For those of you who are not sharing and are in Canada, you can call 1-866-782-7312 and/or visit shawdirect.ca/hdupgrade for more information. This information came from a letter I got here up North.
  21. English Rose, the reason I only pay 46 pesos every 2 months is because I have one or two more panels than I need. If you are in DAC and paying very high rates for electricity the payback on photo-voltaic solar panels is quite short but if you are only paying for maybe 100 or 150 KWH per month you are being billed at a very small subsidized rate per KWH. And it does not make economic sense to buy solar panels. But like you, English Rose I want to generate as much power as I use and get charged the minimum rate of 23 or 24 pesos per month or now being billed every two months, paying twice that now that much. So it may not make economic sense to buy those one or two extra panels, but I just had to get them
  22. That is not bad. Sure by maybe getting LED bulbs, and running some of the appliances somewhat less you could drop your usage. It starts getting 3 to 4 times more expensive when your average more than 500 KWH per 2 months over a one year or less period. If you want to check things out, get yourself a Kill-A-Watt meter and start looking for the heavy KWH users and see where you can save even more electricity.
  23. It shows how much excess I sold to CFE and I subtract that from how much I bought back and that is the surplus, And somewhere on the back of the bill is total extra power that I generated and saved up over time. Going by memory here in rainy Seattle.
  24. I sure hope you are right and I misunderstood the folks at eSun Energy. I am up north and can not double check. Thanks for your input, Tom.
  25. Yes you are correct. You receive credit for your surplus. When I first got my panels in 2008, there was no limit as to when I had to use up my surplus. That has changed and I understand but have not confirmed that you have to use up the extra power you saved in the year that you earned it. Apparently your reserve or power saved is reset to 0 at the beginning of every year. Please could someone confirm the date for emptying your power saved account and year end? Thanks
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