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Finally after all these years I don't have to sit and wait and wait and I can see videos etc. What I'm enjoying most though is Google Earth. I can't believe how close up it gets to my house I can even see the driveway and the garden paths in the backyard. Then zoom along down the street to moms place.. LOL Even found my cousin in the UK's house which came thru pretty clear.. some of the country places aren't so clear though.
 
Congratulations, High Speed is the only way to go. Isn't it amazing at the amount of stuff you can surf is such a short time? And also how much time you used to spend waiting for screens to finish resolving?
 
Yes.. Because we are located in the Blue Ridge Mountains the satillites don't work well here at all... Here's the town web site..

Mind you-
Our town has no Grocery Store, Gas Station or any other modern convinece.. You have to travel about 2 miles to Black Mountain for that stuff...

http://www.townofmontreat.org/
 
High speed is great

I just got high speed in December and I love it.

I'm very thankful for our current technological advances. Thanks to NOAA and their satellite images after Hurricane Rita, I was able to tell if my house and business had damage before we were allowed back into our town. You could see the telephone poles down in the street and even see roof damage.
 
It says I've got 1375 download 375 upload. Still in all it's a mega difference to what I had before.. We had trouble getting it started and the Bell repair guy came to the house to check the line and said we barely had enough signal strength to get DSL. He told me, wasn't supposed to, that we'd be better off getting cable. Bell here only provides DSL. We'll probably switch to cable internet and phone in a few months as a whole package deal which will be cheaper, I hope.
 
DSL is coming!!!

They're running the lines are whatever for DSL here in my neighborhood and it should be available in February. YAY!!!! No more retarded dialup and now I can watch Youtube videos! YAY!!!!!
 
Used to have Comcast....

I was very happy with cable internet. Then I found out I could get FiOS, from Verizon. I thought I was fast before....Now I'm REALLY fast! I've got the fever people! =)
 
I thought American Eagle sold clothes lol.

The Cables are being run to the poles on the streets now so it won't be long before I can ditch my dialup modem.
 
Cable vs Fiber/Telco

There are way more service (and customer service) complaints with cable companies than there are with the phone companies. Both Verizon and AT&T are working feverishly to get fiber to each individual home. When that happens, cable is going to get blown away, which they deserve to be. Almost every time I choose to read the "action line" column in my local paper it's got somebody complaining about their cable service and associated ineptitude and/or lack of customer service. Being a monopoly, the cable companies can use the old Lily Tomlin (Ernestine) line about Ma Bell in the 70's: "We don't care, we don't have to" and it's pretty clear that they do take that approach.

The only reason I keep my cable is because I have 5 TV's in my house. With a dish, that means 5 set-top boxes but with cable you can have basic service without a box. Once Verizon starts offering TV service in my area, I am so done with Comcast. All the cable companies are just a bunch of arrogant thieves. The telcos aren't perfect angels but are so steeped in regulation that they are compelled to provide better service than the cable companies can even comprehend.
 
$12.99

We pay AT&T, formerly SBC, formerly Pacific Telephone, $12.99 per month for our DSL. I got the wi-fi modem and connected Bob's pc and my laptop wirelessly. We can both go on at the same time. I will check the speed, but it seems pretty fast, much better that the dial-up.

It will go up to $17.99 after one year, but that's still not bad. Since I have limited phone service with $.03 per minute long distance, the total bill is usually less than $30.00 per month. I think I paid more than that 30 years ago just for phone.

I dumped Comcast when they raised my extended basic by about $10.00 and got the Dish Network.

Enjoy!

Martin
 
Oh yeah, and when I got my DSL from Verizon, it couldn't have gone any smoother. I didn't need to be home and they regularly notified me by e-mail of the order's progress and the work actually got done sooner than the original due date. I couldn't have asked for a more painless experience. Much as everybody in my area loved to hate Verizon (they are an also-ran telco in northern Calif) and wanted Pacific Bell (now AT&T after being SBC for a while) instead, I have to say that Verizon has really turned things around and I have no complaints.
 
I have verizon for cell service and i think there are super.. All though we have no choices like that here, i wish we did.. All we have is Bellsouth/Att and Charter Communications... Ickkk

We have Bell Sotuh DSL and i love it... Its $30 a month, but that includes a wireless gateway and everything.. Not bad
 
A Good Word About Cox

I'm very pleased with my high-speed internet from Cox Cable. I get a discount (it's bundled with my HDTV cable package) and it's truly fast. Plus, I get very good service, whether on the Internet or on the phone. Cox is one of the cable Internet providers that did well in recent Consumer Reports surveys, and I have to second that for those who live in areas where Cox is available--including my home town of Las Vegas.
 
DSL Speed . . .

I checked mine and it worked out to 2273 download and 414 upload. It may not be as fast as a cable modem, but it is pretty reliable which is important as it is used daily for business. It is fast enough to keep my favorite web radio stations going all day while using the net for other purposes.

To get a cable modem I'd have to deal with Time Warner, who replaced Adelphia who replaced Century Cablevision. They ALL suck big time . . . some of the highest prices in the City of LA (but they know you don't get a choice, it is determined by your neighborhood), and lousy service with frequent outages. Time Warner just took over and as their first big change moved about 10 channels to their pricey digital cable and then their rep insisted on the phone that this was a better value because once we upgraded to digital cable we'd get even more channels; he just couldn't comprehend how 10 fewer channels for the same money represented worse value not better. So we now have Direct TV and pay less for more channels and vastly better picture quality . . . dishes are sprouting in my neighborhood like toadstools after a rainstorm.
 
Cox is definitely a competitor to the telephone providers and has made some serious inroads in places like San Diego and it appears Las Vegas also. Whatever they are doing right, I wish the other cable companies would follow their lead.
 
Telecos are Wal-Mart

Regional/national telephone companies selling DSL and other broadband Internet services are like what you all say about Wal-Mart putting the neighborhood stores out of business.

But even worse.

You see, the telecos ARE the provider for Internet connectivity to the mom-and-pop ISPs. The local customers pay the ISP, the ISP pays the teleco. So the telecos get it all in the end. Or is it the ISPs that get it "in the end?"

*They* can sell DSL for $12.99/month because *they* have their corporate machine carrying the load. But we can't stay in business selling dial-up for $20/month, not just because of losing customers to *them* but also because of the outrageous costs *they* charge for the incoming connectivity lines to our network. There are also the "little" ancillary costs like running an e-mail server.

So, as of April 1, I lose a job I've had for the past 8.5 years.

Thanks, AT&T!
 
Dad, when good ol' boys like Ed Whitacre of SBC ->-> AT&T have good ol' boy buddies and fellow Texans in the White House appointing favorable cabinet members and commission chairmen, the scenario you described is what can happen. I am really sorry to hear about your pending layoff. This is more about mom & pop ISP providers than mom and pop phone companies. Nobody cares about the small phone companies since they mainly provide residential service which has never been profitable even for the big boys, so they'll continue to exist. But Ed just can't seem to get enough revenue and will steamroll over any small operation that might be siphoning some off. Still, you've got to appreciate a guy who took the lamest of the baby bells and turned it into such a power house that it ended up eating its former parent company. Too bad that means the lamest of Ma Bell's kids was the one who ended up filling Ma's shoes. Welcome to the "new" AT&T everybody. It's not going away any time soon. Just be sure not to mistake it for the old Ma Bell. The two companies couldn't be more different despite sharing the same name.
 
Glenn, I am really sorry to hear this. I know it is hard to think postive at a time like this but you are such a talented guy I know that there is something better waiting ahead for you!! Terry
 

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