Hi everyone, Today, we will see what we ate when we were in Anna Maria Island. We took some time to find a place to eat, and we found Sandbar Seafood + Spirit. To start, we got the Oyster of the Day: This plate was delicious. It comes in half dozen or full dozen. The one we got is the full dozen plate. For our main dishes, I chose the Grouper Tacos: My wife decided to get the Chargrilled Octopus:…
Today, we will be looking at a cell tower that hosts Verizon eNB 445865, operating on LTE bands 2 and 66. The tower is located at 310 S Haid Terrace, Lecanto, FL. Verizon signal reception is noticeably weak around the Walmart in Inverness. In that area, the phone connected to this particular tower, as confirmed via CellMapper. This was observed outside the Walmart: Speeds at this distance are suboptimal and fluctuate depending on movement: Inside Walmart, cellular service was nearly…
Hi everyone, Today, we will be looking at another tower I saw in Anna Maria Island. This tower has the Verizon eNB 147334 and is behind the city hall. It could also have 5G band n77, but I cannot confirm this, since Visible is not 5G Standalone and it cannot reveal the gNB number. The tower can be seen from the beach: Below, we can see a speedtest and the CellMapper cell details. The upload is particularly good in this…
Hi everyone, Over the first weekend of September, we went to Anna Maria Island. There, I took the opportunity to check cell towers with the CellMapper app. Today, we are looking at a DAS that seems to be from Verizon. This has the eNB 147431-22 and seems to have only band 66. It is located near the traffic light of Gulf Dr. Interestingly, it later connected to 5G. However, since Visible does not yet support 5G Standalone, I cannot confirm…
Hi everyone, Yesterday, I was at a restaurant in Orlando when I noticed a cell tower that was incorrectly positioned in the CellMapper app. It turns out the cell I was connected to is one of those small cells Verizon has deployed along the streets. It’s located on Universal Boulevard, near a Publix and several other businesses. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to test whether it supports 5G / mmWave / n261, but it does broadcast 4G LTE Bands 4 and…
Karol launched her new single, called Milagros, on Thursday, May 8, 2025, coinciding with the release of her new documentary available on Netflix. You may be wondering how many versions of this single are there. For most, it will be only 1 available on most streaming services, but some services have up to 3 versions. Let’s take a look below: Streaming versions Standard version The standard version is available on all streaming platforms, including Spotify, Deezer, and Tidal. This version…
Hi everyone, One of my hobbies I’ve been doing for some time since the past year has been to add new artists and releases to the MusicBrainz Catalog. I’ve realized that some Latin American artists and releases are missing, or that the digital version of some old release are not in the catalog. This is where I step in and add the releases to make the catalog as complete as possible. One of the benefits of doing this is it…
Hi everyone, This is just a simple update to let everyone know that the site is back. Some good things have happened in the past few months. For once, I now have fiber internet, with symmetrical speed. However, my ISP took some time to get me out of the CGNAT. They also do not provide IPv6 so I had to sort that out, but the good news is everything seems to be back and running. Over the next few days,…
Hi everyone, This week, I installed the ListenBrainz and Last.FM plugins to my local Jellyfin server, where I have my Music CDs ripped and listen to them using the Finamp Android app. It seems that the Last.FM plugin is working well, but I noticed that the ListenBrainz plugin had a problem. Whenever I listened to songs with multiple artists, those would not be submitted nor would be shown as “Now Playing”. So, I took some time to find out the…
Hi everyone, Today, we will be seeing a result of QPxTool where I tested a Verbatim DVD+RW disc on the Dell DW316 DVD Burner. The Verbatim disc tested has a media ID of MKM-A02-000: The drive was able to burn the disc successfully at up to 4x. The burn took about 15 minutes and a half. Note that the drive performs online power calibration as it goes: After burning, I did a read test to confirm that the write was…