The Old Folks Home

[drumstick diva]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISHER - sadly this is the sum of my creativity . I don't know how to do the fancy stuff like everyone else. But, the birthday wishes are straight from my heart and I wish you many, many more....

 

[chickisoup]

HALF of 1 mbps? That is phone MODEM speed! Like from 20 years ago!

And what happened to DSL NOT being affected by the number of users like cable is?

We get 3 mbps on a good day and can't get higher. I asked the phone company rep when we would get more (they have up to 15 mbps in some areas) and she said "no idea". If they have any plans to upgrade hardware or add hubs so they are closer to houses thus providing faster speeds, they aren't telling anyone, not even their service reps.

TELL ME ABOUT IT!!!

We actually had better speed 20 years ago I think. I have DirectTv (no cable in our area) with a Genie box and because many of the features (like on demand programming) rely upon actual internet, we can't operate any of it! Streaming anything? The tech actually tried not to giggle at that. You know what's worse? We are fiber optic!!! If I walk to the end of our driveway where it meets the road and look across the potato field, I can actually SEE the fiber optic POP. It's not like Frontier, the SP, is some little mom and pop outfit. Well, about 15 years ago they actually came in and bought the really great little mom and pop outfit we had and it has literally been all downhill (speed wise) since. Our problem isn't so much the lines themselves (tho most of it is really old) it's the servers, other hardware, etc. that drives the system that's pushing antique.

 

[Alaskan]

Yeah, we had to switch to dish for internet, the phone cords are too old.

However, since a vast majority of houses can see the spit where the tower sits, it is all good.

The joy of living on a hillside.

Homer Spit:

Happy Birthday Wisher!!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

But can you see Russia?

 

[Alaskan]

 

[getaclue]

Happpy Birthday Wisher!

 

[chickadoodles]

Yeah, we had to switch to dish for internet, the phone cords are too old.

However, since a vast majority of houses can see the spit where the tower sits, it is all good.

The joy of living on a hillside.

Homer Spit:




Happy Birthday Wisher!!

That is a beautiful pic! I wish I could wake to that view every day!

 

[Alaskan]

It is pretty...

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I bet that's not a picture of current state.

 

[drumstick diva]

Sarah Palin can see Russia from her kitchen window-I've been told.