Costacat | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 01:50 pm     I'm guessing I can still do this... I need to complain about the fact that my cable provider is on the blink and trying to access ANYTHING with a dial-up connection is frustratingly slooooow (yeah, yeah, I know lots of you out there use dial-ups, but heck, I'm spoiled and haven't had to dial up anything in absolute ages!). Cox has been out for over two hours now, and will be out for at least another two!!!! <sounds of violins can be heard...> |
Ryanc829 | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 01:52 pm     Lost my Cox last night (Wichita, KS) at about 1 AM. Our cable line looks like it's about to fall down. |
Spunky | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 01:54 pm    
no free feeds for 2 weeks...how am I supposed to decide if they're worth or not?
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Delilah | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 01:54 pm     Costa, you poor thing! I have a cable modem too and if I had to use dial up I would pull all my hair out! I hope it gets sorted out soon. I want to complain about Real. Always when BB starts, it takes me days to tweak the dang player to work properly. Right now it keeps crashing every time I switch cams, freezes my entire computer and I am sick of rebooting. Of course they keep you on hold for a half an hour until you finally just hang up due to sheer frustration. So far I have only seen about 2 minutes of the feeds. Heck I would even take the foth music right now, my BB withdrawls are very strong! end of rant |
Crossfire | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 01:56 pm     I just went to the real.com website, and the first thing I see on the screen is 14 day free trial superpass. |
Costacat | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 02:02 pm     Grr... slow downloads. Forget sticking cute little smiley/frowny faces in here... Delilah, try and download the latest RealOne Player. I didn't have any problems when I loaded it, and the LFs came up fine the first time (no tweeaking required). Spunky, you can get the two weeks freebie if you go to Real's site directly (do NOT go thru CBS, do NOT go thru any Real links to BB4, do not pass Go!). Ryan, I'm wondering if my outage is cause of your outage. Did your cable line fall down yet? <snicker> |
Spunky | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 02:04 pm     Thanks Costacat... but they still want me to give some personal info first... |
Crossfire | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 02:05 pm     You asked for free not anonymous. |
Lurknomore | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 02:15 pm     YaY you ressurected my thread from last year!!!! I feel so special Great therapy came from this thread...I totally forgot about it lol |
Costacat | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 02:15 pm     LOL... yeah, you ain't gonna get it for free. Sign up, and you get a zero dollar billing statement. Enjoy it for two weeks, and call and cancel BEFORE the two weeks is up. |
Delilah | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 02:18 pm     Thanks Costa!! I just did that, so far so good :-) |
Lurknomore | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 02:21 pm     Delilah didn't ya hear the good news that BBLive is working so far...heck with Real and all those problems (crashed on me several times today). If you go to the Real thread you can get the cable plug in addys to add to BBLive. I can email you a copy of the program if you don't still have it. Just hollar! It's working GREAT! |
Spunky | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 02:24 pm     Lurknomore.. I tried the BBLive but it's not working for me, I don't know how to insert the US url.. |
Lurknomore | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 02:29 pm     Spunky open BBLive. Click on the Feeds button. The first one should say Add/Edit. Click that. Then put a title on the left and just cut and paste the info that Adam was nice enough to post in the other thread on the right. Then click Save on the top right corner. Then you are good to go. Just click feed again and click on the one you want, they will be entered in. It's really simple. Good luck! |
Kmjm | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 02:32 pm     I need to complain about the fact that there's the same thing on all four feeds a lot of the time. And when there isn't, Real crashes when I try to switch feeds! |
Delilah | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 02:40 pm     Lurkie I downloaded the latest version of real player and so far it is working great (knock on head) I did try BBLive and it looked really complicated so I am going to stick with Real for a bit and if it crashes ONE more time I am going to ditch it and figure out how to work BBLive. Lurk, where are you coming to in NY? Km, I did what Costacat suggested and downloaded the latest version through the real site and it hasn't crashed on me yet (Wow!) |
Lurknomore | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 02:49 pm     My cousin is getting married in Levittown on Long Island on the 19th. If I go, (and I really want to cause I have hardly any family left and sure would love to see em) I most likely coming in on the 18th. My biggest problem is the friend I was supposed to stay with (she's in Greenburg, NY by White Plains) MAY be going away with her new beau that weekend, so until I know her plans I am not sure MY plans. Not sure if I'm gonna go if I have to get a hotel room cause right now I'm broke...so those are my maybe plans lol. Let me keep it on topic...I need to complain that my plans depend on waiting to hear from other people! And all of this may interfere with my BB watching/posting. |
Lurknomore | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 02:50 pm     PS BBlive is easy just follow the steps I detailed. Will take you less than 5 min to set up and you don't have that annoying real box, and can make it any size you want. |
Delilah | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 02:58 pm     Dang Lurk, I live right by White Plains! I would offer you a roof but I have a full house (kiddies and a menagerie of animals) ::::sigh::::: I will leave you a message in your folder.... Sorry back OT, my RP hasn't crashed now for over an hour and counting so perhaps I am OK for the moment, but if I need BBLive instructions, I will give you a shout! Thanks :-) |
Chance | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 02:59 pm     dear lurk, Where is BBlive? a diff website? cbs? Thanks Mary |
Lurknomore | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 03:09 pm     Not sure where on the web it is...I downloaded it a few BB's ago. The link in the program didn't work. I didn't try web searching it (since I found mine lol). If you want a copy lemme know, I'd be glad to send it. |
Jan | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 03:11 pm     Chance BBLive is a viewer from which to watch the cameras instead of Real (you must have Real superpass to use it..but it is better because it is always on top and is easily made any size, and you can open it more than once so you could have all cameras open etc etc.) It's free and really easy to program (after all I did it and I am totally untechie). If you go here you will find out how to get it and how to program it (the programming bit comes first. A later post gives the URL to get it): BBLIVE don't be intimidated. It really is easy and if you have problems just post in that site and someone will help you. |
Max | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 03:14 pm     Here's where you can download BBLive. Enjoy! |
Costacat | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 03:50 pm     I need to complain that the reason I lost my cable modem was cause the idiot cable company decided to replace the equipment in my condo building AND PLANNED THE OUTAGE but did they even bother to let us owners know oh no! Sheesh! Oh, and you guys... this is the complaining thread!!!!!!!!! (Not the "let's help each other and feel all smooshy thread!" <grin>) P.S. Lurk, you're welcome. Let's keep this one bumped up! |
Lurknomore | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 04:00 pm     hehe I have a feeling we'll be having tons to complain about!!!! After all isn't that part of the Big Brother experience?! SOOOO glad you thought of it! |