fudgie
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« on: October 25, 2010, 05:56:09 PM » |
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Finally my slow att/centenial wireless air card contract is up and cancelled. It was slow. No way I could watch you tube videos. It would take 15 min to watch a 2 min video. Upload pictures from my camera to web, no way. Now I need another service. What do you all use? Hard to get high speed/ dsl out here yet. Dial up maybe my best bet. I found this and I may have used it years ago before the divorce. http://www.localnet.com/index.php Cant remember how well it worked. Mostly need it to be able to watch internet videos, kits face book, my VRCC/ sturgis/ and gun sites. PC is only 8 yrs old or so.
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« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2010, 06:08:31 PM » |
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I'd kill for wireless! Grass is always greener I guess. I'm in the sticks and on satellite. Not the best, but going to it from dial-up made a world of difference. In my case, just can't get line-of-sight to the wirelesss tower. My neighbor can and did - I can see his tower from my front door. I wonder if you have a bad set-up or a poor provider? Wireless should be faster than what you describe. Unless they are choking you down due to excess usage?
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« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2010, 06:13:58 PM » |
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Fudgie do you have Comcast cable service in your area? If so, you should be able to get broadband service through them.
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fudgie
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« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2010, 06:16:30 PM » |
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Fudgie do you have Comcast cable service in your area? If so, you should be able to get broadband service through them.
No, to far out of town. Even ATT wont come this far and I have them as a landline.  Heck I'm only 4 miles north of town and a highway.
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fudgie
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« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2010, 06:18:47 PM » |
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I'd kill for wireless! Grass is always greener I guess. I'm in the sticks and on satellite. Not the best, but going to it from dial-up made a world of difference. In my case, just can't get line-of-sight to the wirelesss tower. My neighbor can and did - I can see his tower from my front door. I wonder if you have a bad set-up or a poor provider? Wireless should be faster than what you describe. Unless they are choking you down due to excess usage?
I think it was the air card provider. My EMS partner has the same one and hated it. She went with Verizon and it was definitly faster. Cant see paying $65 for 2 hours of internet a night.
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« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2010, 06:39:28 PM » |
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We have HughesNet satellite here in rural Kansas. Just switched from Starband. Starband sucked. Hughes Net is much better.
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« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2010, 07:15:56 PM » |
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I had Comcast, but their piss poor technical and customer service made me go from Cable TV and Internet to HD Digital TV Antenna (FREE TV) and Verizon DSL. Believe it or not, my DSL was faster than the Cable (showed the Tech Speedtest.net to prove it... but their Tech didn't believe in that... go figure). After a year or two of DSL and having been very happy with it, they made me a FIOS offer for slightly less than what I was paying at the end of my DSL promo. I just this past week got FIOS... but just for my home phone and Internet.... I still love the Digital Antenna TV and don't care to pay for stuff I don't watch anyhow. Besides.... those few shows (SOA) I might watch via Cable or FIOS if I had it... I watch on the Internet (HULU or the like).
I also find it hard to believe the wireless was that slow (more likely the PC??). See if your local home phone provider can get you DSL or if there is a wireless package that might work for you.
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« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2010, 07:20:11 PM » |
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I remember the old dial-up days  I feel for you  
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« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2010, 07:32:03 PM » |
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my wife uses a sprint wireless(usb plug) on her work laptop. seems to work ok http://www.sprint.com/index_p.htmlshe has the "cast a wide net" round one. don't have any idea as to price or coverage.
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« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2010, 08:36:24 PM » |
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Believe it or not, my DSL was faster than the Cable (showed the Tech Speedtest.net to prove it... but their Tech didn't believe in that... go figure).
I had a guy argue with me that a 6Meg DSL was slower than a 6Meg cable connection................. CATV has good advertising. I am 24,500 feet from the telephone office. I got extended reach DSL about 2 years ago. It was "up to 768" which in real life was about 490K. Today, I got bumped to 1.5M. Centurylink is the provider and I work for them. Took a little shmoozing to get them to open me up to 1.5M but the route has about 1/3 in 22 ga wire. Heavier wire means less loss. There is a customer that is pushing 22Kft from the office with almost all 22 ga and he is getting 3M. Basically I am a test to see what we can do outside of the parameters. Call your local phone company. You aren't any farther out than me. They would have to put in what is called "smart coils" that will keep your voice freq's at a hearable level and still pass data.
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« Reply #11 on: October 26, 2010, 06:06:47 PM » |
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We have Verizon Wireless Broadband, which is very expensive for three computers!! I've added Wild Blue satellite (through DirecTv), and hope to cancel two of the broadband cards. First, I've got to get the wireless range extenders hooked up and figure out which package we really need. Seems that it's a usage-in-the-past-30-days thing, not monthly like the Verizon. First thing that happened (after being told at sign up that I could download as much as I wanted) was that I got shut down for going over my limit.
Still not happy, but better than what I had. Cell phones and wireless broadband don't work from my couch!
No DSL, no Cable, No nothing out here. But it's peaceful and quiet, and if I have to give up DSL etc. for joy of living where I do, I'm happy to do it.
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« Reply #12 on: October 26, 2010, 06:16:42 PM » |
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Hey Fudgie, I was on dial up until a new service hit town. see if you can get OPEN RANGE in your area, that is what I'm on and it is a lot better than dialup, 4 gigs is all .
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« Reply #13 on: October 26, 2010, 06:25:32 PM » |
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I'm in the same boat. DSL and cable don't come this far out of town. I'm just out of reach of the wireless towers. I gave up dialup and went to satellite (through Dish network). Satellite is way faster but not as fast as my son's DSL. Utube videos take a few minutes to load but not long. Some days I can even watch them immediately without waiting at all. E mail attachments download quickly and I no longer worry about someone sending me a large file and locking up my "E" mail service.
But, when my contract is up I'll be going with a cell phone modem. My daughter had her laptop and cell modem here a while back. It was way faster than my satellite service and cost about the same or a little less. Videos were instant. I watched several old "Seahunt" episodes and many music videos with her setup and all were flawless.
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« Reply #14 on: October 27, 2010, 12:20:01 PM » |
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i feel your pain, my bandwidth challenged brothers and sisters!  I too live in the sticks. NOTHING....has worked. AT&T said "try this....it SHOULD work". No signal. Verizon later...same drill. Same results. No cable. No DSL. The ONLY choice is Hughesnet. I refuse to pay that much.... Governor Riley has sworn by this time next year there WILL be cost effective alternative for rural Alabama.....to bring all us "rednecks in the sticks" into the modern era. We'll see about that....... I have done some research on Verizon webiste, and supposedly they have a USB device that you can use...that accepts an EXTERNAL antenna....so if you wanted to go to the trouble to run coax/wire thru your house....to outside...and put an external antenna on some type of mast or structure.....SUPPOSEDLY...then...you could get signal? I MAY....try that? Hey, even cell phones don't work reliably out here where i live. I have dial up for internet...and the BEST speed i ever get is 21k.....tops! Yes, i don't do much internet at home! Videos, music, etc.............PAINFUL...........VERY PAINFUL!!!!!!
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« Reply #15 on: October 27, 2010, 02:05:09 PM » |
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I don't have your problem in south Florida but my wife and I dream of living far from it all, so I am watching this thread with interest. The out-of-the-way places we have visited have had no cell phone coverage, so I have wondered how we would address the internet situation. I ain't a people person, but got's to have the net...
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