Finally Got DSL

MountainDon · January 02, 2008, 04:43:43 PM

Many years ago I had data service thru SprintPCS. It worked well but was expensive. Last time I looked it was still expensive.

HughesNet or Blue something or other satellites are the only alternative when you're off in the boonies, and last I checked they wanted 2 year contracts.

DSL doesn't string out far enough in those mountains of mine and the telephone company isn't even interested in stringing a landline.

Redoverfarm · January 02, 2008, 05:37:10 PM

Don a neighbor of mine could not get DSL. He ended up getting Hughsnet and if you can believe what he told me was that there was a $250 up front and then $60 monthly. He never said anything about terms of time limits. I do know that weather problems do interfere witht he signal like satelite TV.

QuoteDSL doesn't string out far enough in those mountains of mine and the telephone company isn't even interested in stringing a landline.

I hope you were referring to your cabin and not your house because you have to have DSL at home because your replies are too fast for dial-up.

January 02, 2008, 07:36:39 PM

Yep. Big up front charge, big monthly bill and there's usually a meter on the line. Too much downloading going on and they'll slow your feed. Or charge you more. I'm not sure; I forget the details.

and Yep again. That reference to no land line was for up where the cabin is. They offered to sell me cell service.

glenn kangiser · January 03, 2008, 12:42:21 AM

My son had satellite computer for a bit -- he was not satisfied.

desdawg · January 03, 2008, 08:17:19 AM

I had the Verizon service for a while. It is only as good as the tower placement around it. When you start it up they always want a 1 or 2 year commitment with early temination fees. It too was $60/month. It wouldn't work at my primary residence but I had to prove that by spending a lot of time on the phone with the tech support people to get released from the 2 year deal. Once I did that they were good about it. They really do want happy customers. I heard from someone that the required commitment was going to go away. I guess back in the early days of cellular when they started up a new customer they tied up some equipment in that persons name. That is not the case anymore with the newer technology. So I don't know if the rumor is true or not but I will help spread it.

January 05, 2008, 10:09:51 PM

Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day,
teach a person to use the internet
and they won't bother you for weeks.

sparks · January 06, 2008, 10:51:09 PM

Quote from: Redoverfarm on January 05, 2008, 10:09:51 PM
Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day,
teach a person to use the internet
and they won't bother you for weeks.

Wasn't it Al Gore that coined that?

glenn kangiser · January 06, 2008, 11:00:30 PM

Al Gore invented the internet.

Redoverfarm · January 06, 2008, 11:08:20 PM

Not real sure about the saying but if he did invent the internet it was probably when he was exploring the "green stuff"

January 06, 2008, 11:17:21 PM

We discussed this a bit before in fact I started a topic on it. Off topics -- father of the internet? I think -- I think we finally allowed that he did promote it a bit.

sparks · January 06, 2008, 11:48:35 PM

Hi, I meant that comment above as a HaHa. Please excuse my lack of knowledge re emoticons, etc. I don't even know how to cut and paste urls or any thing else for that matter. help?

glenn kangiser · January 07, 2008, 12:00:03 AM

I took it that way --- what's Al Gore ever done anyway?

URL's can usually be dragged and dropped right into the message but if on the full service reply, all emoticons can just be clicked where you want them. You can insert the URL's in the URL brackets - click the world picture then paste the link between.