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Ring does not like this RailPro user group

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darryl.trains:

 My effort to show and display RP was received with mixed results. A couple members that do N scale might have gone with RP but since N modules are not available, they quit asked me. Some of the HO guys ask me once in awhile but that too is fading away. I am also tired of promoting RP when Ring should be doing more, maybe he just doesn't care?  So it seems the RPUG or N is not important to Mr Ring. What a way not to do business. I really like using RP but since I purchased just about everything I will ever need, there will not be any more orders at least for a very long time if ever. Sorry Bill... I might ditch everything and go back to O with Lionel-MTH as I have quite a bit of it too.  Going to the sidelines for now. Happy training to y'all. #### Darryl

Alan:
I understand why no N scale LM. I'm sure it is not for lack of want. When you see how tightly packed together the components of an LM are inside it is easy to understand how doing the same in N size space must be a big technological challenge. There is a lot more processing going on inside an LM than any DCC decoder is capable of. The penalty RP pays for having that processing power is a limit to miniaturization.

Tom:
It was a little disturbing to read the comments on this string.  The Ring response to Heath came across to me as more defensive and disdainful of RPUG than anything else.  Ring says “We know one of the user on the user group is a criminal.  We know that he has violated both copyright law and EULA license agreement laws in the past.”  That could be true or not, but to indict the entire forum seems not to serve any purpose other than to alienate the most avid supporters of his products.

On the other side, I do not have the Hughesnet problem, so do not totally understand it.  But, if one trip “to use the wifi at McDonalds in order to use Rings server” is what it would take to download the RailPro Assistant software which could then be used to via Hughesnet to then download sounds, lights pictures, etc. to an HC-2, I would do it in a heartbeat.

Homeless by Choice:

--- Quote from: Tom on January 07, 2019, 06:09:35 PM ---It was a little disturbing ...

On the other side, I do not have the Hughesnet problem, so do not totally understand it.  But, if one trip “to use the wifi at McDonalds in order to use Rings server” is what it would take to download the RailPro Assistant software which could then be used to via Hughesnet to then download sounds, lights pictures, etc. to an HC-2, I would do it in a heartbeat.

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Tom,
I was infected by a computer virus about 10 years ago.  All my credit card numbers, bank account numbers, passwords, etc were acquired.  It was a key stroke saving program that sent all my information for who knows how far back to Russia who then sold them to the bad guys.  The amount involved exceeded $50,000.  It took an IT guy a long time to find all the elements of the virus in my computer.  I had boo coo problems getting everything fixed.  My credit card companies absorbed the $50,000 costs because the numbers were used off shore and by the time they noticed it, my credit cards were way over my limits.  What a financial relief but what headaches it caused trying to get my bank accounts changed and my credit rating re-established.  I am very gun-sigh.  Since I will never use a public WiFi network again, I have no method of downloading Ring Engineering programs.

I only mention this so as others are aware of the reasons for my refusal to use a public non-secure WiFi connection,

Thank you,
LeRoy

nortoneye:
I'm the one other customer who had to make changes with my ISP to get connected with RE.  It boiled down to Carrier Grade Network Address Translation (CGNAT) and the requirement that RE can communicate with my ISP only on a fixed port (80)  There seems to be a difference of opinion with TR and my ISP regarding IvP4 addresses and he is not complementary to some of the discussion we have on RPUG.  There is a long thread on this with detailed explanations on the "diffiuculty connecting" thread. In any event I did talk to TR on 2-3 occasions and he was accommodating and spent plenty of time with me trying to get a work around.  My connection is fiber optic, so I cannot comment on the satellite connection. The more I work with RailPro, the more I like it.

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