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Thanks for doing that, it makes the world a better place.

 

It really does!

 

KR,

here in my part of the county you can do hughes/dish or you can do this thing we have..... its a local provider that has cellphone towers set up in a lot of places & you have like a mini dish in your yard that goes beams to/from it. my 5mb package is $39 a month unlimited usage. They dont limit your usage cause the speed does it for them.
for another $20 a month you can get 10mb speed but thats it.

the people that own it are a mom/pop outfit that started in 2003. real good people & easy to deal with. local people, local business. so will stick with them unless it gets ridiculous.

there is no cable tv or fiber here & using a hotspot/jetpack is pretty shaky cause if you turn you head wrong here there is no cell service either. my phone bounces from 4glte to 5g like its a ping pong match & everytime it switches towers? it drops ya. LOL

love it & the peacefulness is well worth it. PLUS: it makes it real easy to not answer anyones calls.

coming in the near future the owners tell me they got some of that rural internet upgrade money & that if the power company will let them piggy on their poles.......................... we might get fiber!

now that sounds great, but its near 500' from the road to my house & my electric is underground for the last 1oo' or so. They tell me that id have to ditch/conduit that run & then they will drone the cable from the main road to each power pole & then pull it thru the conduit to the house.

all for $250 installation fee & me doing the ditch.

long story short: yeah man, id jump all over that at $59 a month after its in.

living rural. the best way to be!

 

Happy Birthday @tlebel

 

Good Morning

57deg and rain


Have an Awesome day !!!

 

Get Starlink!!!

You can't stream anything on speeds like that. I don't have cable/sat TV, only a firestick and the internet. I don't know how @MTgirl manages to work with her current connection. When I had a connection like that with Hughes I would choose to make the 3hr round trip to work in the city than deal with the frustration caused from working on such a bad connection.

 

Happy Birthday @tlebel, I hope you have a stupendous day!

 

Morning all

Happy birthday Tom!

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Yep X2 officially now

Thanks all, got the ok from PT so going to a golf simulator later today and late lunch/early dinner with family!
I can officially be part of that other TW thread now for really old folks, but this is where the action is!

 

You can’t escape.

 

So like the Eagles say….”you can checkout any time you like, but you can never leave “

 

I'm a poor bumpkin. Can't afford that.

We stream & digi antenna for TV. But yeah you have to turn off all wifi & coms to do tht. Lmao

 

Happy Saturday to all. Full clouds here, supposed to rain again at some point today.

 

Excuse me, where is the small world ride?

 

In SE Kentucky, we have Spectrum. However, we are very rural, so our house is like the last on a very long line, and about every 3-4 months, we have to have a Spectrum Tech come out to check the lines and such, as the service degrades badly over time. At any given moment, I can get anywhere from 50 - 500+ Mbps up, and around 5 - 20 Mbps downstream. Our plan is "Up to 500 Mbps". I have thought of calling them to see if I upgraded to Business Class, if the service might be more reliable/stable.... but I can't do that until I find another job. And worst case, if we have to move, then the internet connectivity here won't matter to us anyway.

 

....pfffft....