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Snorky no longer stuck with dialup!

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snorky:
Interesting, Paula...you said all the DSL lines are booked. I didn't know there were limitations on DSL usage. Also didn't know WildBlue was unavailable in certain areas. Weird. Actually, the folks that came and installed came from just north of Houston, and we live in far west Texas...about 700 miles away!

And as for waiting...a local provider had put in Broadband Towers out here in the mountains several years ago and I had been requesting a broadband receiver at our house for about 3 years. Last year someone else bought them out. Turned out they failed to pay a royalty to the owner of the towers so they were sued, and, at the same time, their dialup servers went down and they couldn't afford to replace them (what with being sued)! So finally my husband had enough of being without the 'net at home (he has dsl at work), so he told me to go ahead and order wild blue.

I hope you get wild blue (or hughes net, but they are very expensive) before your dialup servers go down...with dialup being outdated I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't replace them when they did stop working.

Deb

PKnowler:
Hey Deb,

We live out in the boondox and they have limited availability of DSL connections and they don't know when they will expand the capacity for more- if ever! That's what they told us. I have Dish Network and tried to get satellite connection through Dish. Everyone I called said that there was a wait until around March. Come to find out they are just training people how to install the connection so it won't be until March until people have been trained to install it in the south Kansas City Area.

That's what I've been told. So we have to wait.  :(

~Paula

rrammfcitktturjsp:
Deb,

  What part of West Texas do you live in?  I live in Lubbock.  Glad to have another Texan on board.  I am wondering who all out there is from Texas.  I know Susan is, as well as Longhorn.

  Sincerely,



  Anne C. McGuire

snorky:
Anne:

I live northwest of Fort Davis in the Davis Mts. in Big Bend area in far west Texas. There are more deer out here than people. We live on dirt roads and folks have gotten lost out here, but if you want a still good-priced piece of 5 acre-plus land, this is the place.

BTW, Paula--there is no way we will ever have dsl (okay, maybe in 20 years!). Wildblue is a lot faster than dialup but compared to dsl or T-1 it is still quite a bit slower.

Deb aka snorky

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