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I would never have thought wood pellets might be a restricted import but nothing surprises me here.

Good thing the millions of mexican who still cook on wood-fired grills don't use pellets!

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I'm looking at a great deal on a wood pellet smoker at costco.com but can't seem to find a supplier of pellets here locally.

Does anyone know of an online or local (Lakeside or Guadalajara) source for pellets??? Just a few kilos until I can bring bags down from NOB.

TIA for your usual good advice.

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Moviespace  sold out four of their theatres for the live broadcast of Porgy and Bess. An excellent performance by the way. I didn't imagine there were that many opera fans Lakeside

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I went to visit the lighting store in SAT beside the Sunrise Restaurant and it was GONE.

Does anyone know if they've moved or are out of business and can anyone recommend a favorite lighting store?

TIA

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The Lake Chapala Society English language Library might be interested.

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Going to visit the Opal mine in Magdalena next week.

Any suggestions on things we should do or avoid?

TIA

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I'm OK with ilox up the hill in Chula Vista.

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The whole project is just insane.

A bike lane as wide as the ones for cars and trucks?

Left turns and buses stopping now impede traffic?

As Happyjillin pointed out - what happens when an ambulance can't pass because traffic is backed up in both directions and cars can't get off the road?

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7 hours ago, GAP092049 said:

We got Telmex fiberoptics this summer. We had some initial problems but after a call to Mexico City it has been great. Paying for 40 and tonight when I checked it was 91 download and 29.5 up load.

Is that wifi in the home or an ethernet cable to the modem?

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70 Mbps is at the modem. Wifi deteriorates the signal to 40 Mbps. Ilox and Telmex modems are apparently poor quality and broadcast a weak wifi signal.

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That was powerful.

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15 minutes ago, tycobb1020 said:

An important factor in this discussion . . . in 2014 exchange rate was about 12 pesos to the US dollar . . . now that rate is pushing 20 pesos to the US dollar. That's about a 60% increase in value of the US dollar.

In the eight years I've lived down here I would guess; (and I mean guess)

- gasoline  and propane have doubled in cost

- restaurant meals are up 60 to 70%

- groceries are up 50%

- I don't know about rents. I own but electricity and water are probably up 50%

- property taxes up 20 to 30 %.

and as tycobb said all of this offset by the peso decline

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24 minutes ago, Youngtimer said:

I have Nord VPN No problems and same pro's as above plus more security.

You can set it to city specific and individual server specific.

I just set mine for Chicago since I am from Illinois and still do online business/banking there.

Another vote for Nord VPN

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and the Police will be in the Walmart parking lot soliciting donations as well. Be generous, they are not paid well.

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I'm the Upper CV customer Computerguy is referring to.

After 8 years of 1.6 Mbps "service" from Telmex I can't tell you how delighted I am with the lightning ilox speeds. I have three other neighbors on my street who report the same speeds.

I have experienced one outage (a slowdown to Telmex speed) a week ago. The ilox NOC responded in literally seconds and the issue was fixed in a couple of minutes. Impressive technical support.

I could use some feedback from other ilox customers. I've heard their VOIP phone service is a bit spotty and before I port my Telmex number and cancel their service I wanted to hear that ilox now had fully reliable phone service. Any feedback please?

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10 hours ago, slainte39 said:

Privada de las Peñas is most definitely NOT in Lower Chula Vista!  Calle Del Roble most certainly is!

Yup definitely Upper Chula Vista where I too used to suffer with 1.6 Mbps speeds from Telmex. Even YouTube would buffer.

Now I'm Netflixing with 30 mbps with ilox. Whooohooo.

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3 hours ago, bournemouth said:

I just received a note from Tech Support at Ilox - only national numbers can  be ported, not foreign numbers.  They apparently do have the ability to provide a US number but you would have no control over what number you would be assigned.

Sounds like that ends my hope of saving my Canadian number. I think I'll just bail on MJ.

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MJ didn't suggest a charge would be involved. They kindly said they regretted losing me as a customer.

Lets see what happens when ilox is asked to port a Canadian number. I haven't cancelled MJ yet.

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Que Ganga is located just East of the El Ancla restaurant in West Ajijic.

Beautiful. Thank you.

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2 hours ago, RickS said:

I'm still a little confused.... sometimes a normal situation for me.... about just what is going to be the results of this action. You will have, with your iLOX fiber, two phone numbers with two phones?  One a Lakeside Telmex # and the other another a Canadian phone #?

My  objective is to have my Telmex 376 exchange land-line number and my former MJ Canadian phone number on two separate wireless phone sets in my house connected to the ilox modem.

Tom says there are two phone jacks on the bg modem. Hope that helps RickS.

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2 hours ago, RickS said:

 

Painfully I got confirmation from MJ that I can port the Canadian phone number I've been using for eight years over to ilox. I can finally dump MJ which has gotten quite expensive over the past few years. Telmex's dial-up grade service here in Chula Vista also made it sometimes difficult to use. 

I just changed my MJ password over to a six digit PIN anticipating the port.

The savings will go a long way for ilox billing.

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4 hours ago, ComputerGuy said:

If you are looking to have just one number for everything, and I assume that precludes your cell phone, then only Magic Jack can tell you.

To clarify, as I understand it, iLox offers subscribers two phone lines. I wanted to port my existing Telmex number to one and my existing Majic Jack number to the second line.

That is if I live long enough to experience installation.

I'll call Majic Jack and post their response.

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Ah but it's advantageous to have what appears to be a local number when you're dealing in my case in the Toronto area.

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mexjerry, many thanks for the update.

I never disagree with Mike the Computer Guy, mainly because he's bigger than me.

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