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Cause & Effect...... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-idUSKBN24B2QI

As others have said, every setup is different but I'm able to turn on my water pump with fresh water tank drain valve open and this greatly speeds up the process. Be sure not to run your pump dry as that's a sure way to ensure it's life prematurely.

I realize the OP was inquiring about tethering but think they may be helped by this info? I recently switched from using a VerizonLTE tablet (Samsung Tab) to a JetPack 8800l and simply transferred my $20/mo, 15GB unlimited plan to the JetPack. Between the faster processor in the JetPack and addition of an inexpensive Netgear 6000450 MIMO antenna I have more than doubled performance and range of my mobile wifi setup. The folks at rvmobileinternet.com have a very informative video that details benefits of MIMO technology. FYI, I abandoned a Weboost RV setup a year ago as it provided little useful benefit IMO. I'm hesitant to take the plunge into hard-mounted (wifiranger, Wineguard, etc) equipment as technology moves too fast to justify piercing the shell of my motorhome.

Minnesota State Parks Update. What is closed? The following DNR-managed facilities: Campgrounds, group camps, and remote campsites at all state parks, state forests, and state recreation areas. Camper cabins Yurts Overnight lodging facilities Group centers, trail centers and other ancillary buildings Visitor centers State park contact stations Facilities and lands not administered by the DNR may have restrictions. Please check with local authorities.

Thanks docj, makes it far easier to keep coming back to these forums when there's a voice of reason in the wilderness. Appreciate your contributions.

I actually canceled my paid subscription to RV Travel as Chuck seems obsessed with the demise of CW, he seems to pander to partisan commenters who despise CW based on a collective political agenda rather than objective business critiques. I can tell you that it seems odd that folks who benefit from a nationwide resource want to put it out of business. I have personally been well served by various CW locations when needing emergency service on my motorhome including getting my generator back in operating condition within 24 hours of calling for an appointment allowing me to arrive at my next destination only slightly late. Of course I've been able to easily pick up parts, accessories and supplies as needed no matter where I roam as long as I can find a CW along the route. No matter how many times I've seen the incorrect narrative of Marcus Lemonis "disrespcting" President Trump (who insults enemies, friends, aides and even war heroes daily!) the rabid hatred of CW continues without critical thinking. With the potential collapse of the RV industry and many dealers likely to disappear it makes no sense to me to wish for a valuable resource to go out of business.

In the event you find there really isn't a connection between the house and engine (starting) battery I can heartily recommend this add-on - http://www.lslproducts.net/UTLS_FAQs.html Took me about 10 minutes to install and gives me confidence that as long as I'm getting house batteries charged while on shore power my starting battery is also being maintained.

OK, I had to google that one as it's unknown to me. Made me realize I've probably forgotten more languages than I remember, Clipper, Advanced-Revelation, etc. I knew it was time to quit when I was directing a bunch of youngsters who were doing some of the first mobile phone (not smartphones, before that!) and they were using java - I attempted to show them my stuff and the best comment was that I was using an object-based language to write procedural code. Guess you can't teach an old dog new tricks?

Agreed! Far more interesting and benevolent than those forums that consist of us geezers yelling at kids to get off our lawns, right?😉 Of course I took care of that problem by ripping out my lawn and replacing with native pollinator plants so the kids stay away from the swarms of bees and even-more menacing butterflies .....

Ah yes, good to be home with folks who know the difference between LINC and MAPPER, I must not be the only one with a foot in the grave 😜. Well, we're all younger than one of my 1st colleagues who told me if I didn't know FORTRAN then I wasn't worth a darn...... 2 days in on "Chromium" (the marketing people actually get paid to christen these damn things!) and there's nothing I don't like other than having to figure out how to do things all over again. I've had a number of sites that absolutely required Chrome to work (und Firefox is verboten!) and so far they don't seem to know I'm running an impostor so hope to keep the hits coming. MS may be too big for their britches but at least they were built on selling a product rather than secretly making their end-users into a product that they sold, call me old fashioned but I'd rather pay for OS/application licenses than have my personal data parsed-out and passed along to the highest bidder in exchange for use of a word processor/spreadsheet.

I guess it's all perspective. After aging out of a decades-long IT career I have an affinity for MS products as they're still the only platform you can run large enterprise systems on. Not a fanboi, I harken back to days of Unisys "A" series, believe IBM's system 400's the most underated server platform and entered the PC world on CPM that was infinitely more robust than MS-DOS and then became an idiot-savant of OS/2 that made nascent Windows/DOS operating systems look like toys. However, all these years later if I'm planning to rollout an international Oracle/SAP implementation then you'd better plan on having Microsoft minding the clients or risk having to deal with other products who's support may be coming from folks whose previous experience was developing games or social media apps, not mission critical systems. So..... with that in mind I've foregone any of the Google kool-aid (even though they prompt me to sign up for cloud storage, email, social media apps, etc any time I use their products) and am content to use IE or Edge for 90% of my browsing with Chrome ("please sign in!") employed when necessary. I'm delighted to have an open-source, "chrome compliant" alternative that will likely be well supported and doesn't require me to have a gmail account to use to full extent. Now if only MS would bring back the Windows phone 🙄