I get hooked up tomorrow!

[partscounterman]

After calling two weeks ago to get digital cable and high speed internet service, I am finally going to get hooked up tomorrow! No more avoiding the threads that have a bunch of picture on them! No more snoring while I wait for the web pages to come over the coconut vines. Even in this third world banana republic I will have ACCESS! Also am getting a DVR so we can now watch TV until our eyes fall outta our head! The future awaits...

 

[toggleswitch]

YAY to connectivity.

now send us $125 per month please.

 

[mayken4now]

Cool David. When I got mine it changed everything on the www.

enjoy.

Steve

 

[seamusuk]

Digital cable!!

So many channels so much cr@p lol!!!!

Got a pretty decent bundle discount for having TV Broadband Net and phone tho . Would NEVER go back to dialup and the WorldWideWait!!!!

Seamus

 

[jasonl]

I hate dialup

I'm on dialup right now where I live and it takes FOR-FRICKIN-EVER to view web pages. Charter is coming out in a few months to hook up cable internet so for now I have to grit my teeth and suffer through a 31k connection.

I HATE DIALUP

 

[Brneyedgrl80]

Ouch!

31k?!

I couldn't fathom going back to anything dial-up. Once you've had high-speed... well... you know.

 

[jasonl]

yeah I know

Well, I HAD cable internet when I was living in Chalmette but that went away with the flood. Opelousas has DSL and cable but way out in the boonies where I live it's 31k. It's a load of shite.

 

[retromom]

Faster than a locomotive......

Hey David!!

Welcome to the 21st Century! The only problem I've had with DSL isn't the DSL at all! Now that I can rush through the internet at supersonic speeds, my computer is bogging down and making me feel like I'm using the phone line again!

Venus

 

[maytagbear]

On the other hand.....

(sorry, but I'm feeling a bit grumpy at the moment)

Better slow internet than none at all.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[DADoES]

Dial-up is my business, and it works for me. What I do online doesn't justify paying broadband prices. Don't blame the ISP for slow connection speeds, they're not responsible for the teleco's line infrastructure feeding into your house.

 

[jasonl]

I want broadband, and I want it NOW! Or I will scream!

 

[petek]

I've been suffering with dialup for years. DSL isn't available on my phone line exchange yet.. why I don't know. There is a company that provides RF type high speed from a tower up the road but it's expensive, you have to buy a special receiver and have an antenna on the roof. If we were staying I'd go for it. It's annoying because I can't open up any of the video threads etc so I can only hope we'll have high speed in the new house. I do have a web "accelerator" option on my dialup with the phone company and it helps quite a bit, certainly makes it faster than straight dial up but you still can't get videos fast with it.

 

[DADoES]

You really *can't* view videos, or it takes longer for them to load than you are willing to wait? Streaming media that plays on-the-fly without fully loading/caching first is the only thing I can't do very well. Everything else works, it just takes some time to get downloaded.

There's no DSL at my house, a bit too far out, and I WILL NOT have SBC/AT&T directly be my ISP. It's hell enough that they're my ISP's ISP. We've been battling them for THREE WEEKS to fix a problem with a local dial-up number. They claim the service configuration was changed in 2003 (which is news to us), but they cannot explain why there was no problem until three weeks ago, nor have they been able to find what exactly is the problem.

I could get cable or satellite, but it's too expensive ... and I canceled cable TV a couple weeks ago anyway.

 

[jasonl]

DON'T get satellite

DON'T DO IT.

They have what's called Fair Access Policy. That means if you download too much in a certain amount of time, they throttle your ISP down to dialup speed. Normal email and web surfing is ok, but listen to internet radio or watch one too many Youtube videos, FAP!

 

[chad_hauris]

Jason, do you have any wireless providers in your area? I live in a pretty remote area, no DSL or cable available but there is a wireless ISP here too with a transmitter on a local radio tower: I use it and speed is better than DSL. I have a flat panel antenna mounted on mast outside to receive it. Cost is $40.00/month and video, internet radio work fine with no problem.
No limit on bandwidth, even uploading files via FTP to our website is no problem.

 

[jasonl]

Will O' the WISP

Nope, no wireless here. "Warless innernet, hell, we jus' get dem radios."

The only option is to wait for cable.

 

[partscounterman]

I think....

I now finally have everything configured for the new high speed thing. I am posting here to let everyone know that my email address has now changed. I could not get into my "old" email so I could just send everyone who writes to me a note-that would have been the easy way, but I am too technologically challenged to figure that out. I did change the email on my profile so ya'll will know where to find me.

I am love, love, LOVING the new high speed thing-Downloading on dial up was getting to be such a chore that I was not participating here as much as I would have liked. Now it is all so quick, I am back with my AW friends everyday!

Of course to get this high speed service we also had to get digital cable service, so instead of 75 channels of nothing to watch, we now have 300 channels of nothing to watch.

My new email is

[email protected]

David