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[pirate_pete]

I got tds As my Telco, and all I can say is they should suck my bells
because, they did many mean things
I live in a somewhat rural neighborhood and before I moved I had SBC (ATT) and when I found out I couldn't get them I was like dang, but like 5 months ago they said they were putting in equipment and by nov. I should have full speed DSL ,2 months later I call in to check up and they say they have no planned construction and than 1 month later I called and they said they were finalizing claims to start installing and to call 4 weeks later and, they have they tended to turn my phone off and other junk

will I ever get DSL ,is their a way to speed this up
any other option for 3k+
and if they get their new copper and such in can I get like sonic or speakeasy instead of their DSL ,because they only have 3 meg and sonic has 6 meg for have the price and that would be nice and unlimited dial-up for traveling

I have tried clearwire, cable, satellite is to expensive

thanks, sorry if there are missing space my laptop space bar is funny and 'I'm gettin used to it

[broadbandinfo]

It sounds like you should try cable.

[pirate_pete]

well my firend has cable internet ,but he is like 6-10 mi aways in cableinng about 4 mi in the crow's eye ,i tied the big cable companies but my firend has samller company called almegea and they have been good to him teir website say i gotta call to get info do you think i should bother ,clearwire when they came out they said they got 3 bar and the fourth whouldn't sinc in it whould see the tower but tower wouldn't commicate to get another bar if i got 1.5 meg form them how fast do ye think it whould be ,satiliete internet is too slow and expennsice i want somthing under 50 dollar and above 3 meg with little port blocking for like bit torrent and VoIP

[pirate_pete]

or my bro was gettin clearire and he was goin see if we can get internet form upstairs batheroom windows last time the clearwire tech was here they got 3 and 1/2 bars and science then more towers were put up and is there like an externeal unit or somtin beacuse if we ciuld boost it to 4 bars that whould be great ir a water proof unit to put on the roof

[ndeck83]

It could be worse. I used to have ATT Yahoo DSL. Man it was sweet. Then we moved and we can't get nothing. No DSL, or Cable. Only Dial-up. I had Hughesnet for awhile but I can't justify paying that much for something so slow. Not to mention the FAP thing they have. I live 2 miles from the local Central Switch and the phone man said we would probably never get DSL. Our local cable provider is Time Warner and we do not have a line running to our house or down our road and they said we will never have one because they were not going to run us one. That leaves me on Dial-up. Right now I am connected at 26.4K and I have never seen it faster than that and my modem is a 56k modem. Takes around 1 hour plus to download a song. Sometime not even 1.00KB/s baud rates.

I may try the Sprint USB Modem soon. I may not get DSL speeds but I would be frilled to get like 300-400k

Maybe one day I will get DSL again.

[pirate_pete]

lol a sprint usb modem whodnt give you 300-400kbps if it is dial up do you mean cellular modem? try clearwire as long as you dont use p2p or host a website expect 1.2-1.4mbps or if not idsn or idsl if you can lol

yea i probaly will never get dsl cuz neightborhood so small but we can always hope , maybe clearwire ,cable aint gonna save the day ethir unless they offer only high-speed and not tv services as they dont give cable tv where i live .

satlleite is expensive , how fast are the cellular internet i can get a "dock"ish router thing that plugs the modem in and put an antenna on the roof and it acts as a router and lets mutiple peole on , but it whould be crappy if you cant get at least 1.5 mbps

[pirate_pete]

Originally Posted by ndeck83

Takes around 1 hour plus to download a song. Sometime not even 1.00KB/s baud rates.

yea i get .5kb/s to 3 kb/s sometimes on good days my dad freiend lives in the mt. as is so rich he moved so far out they didnt have telephones so he payed them a bif number to get lines and he has dial-up and i swear to good it it less than 10 kbps cuz i will try to loead google and i load in like 15secs his ohh 7 mins at least i timed he tried to loads a newspaper site and dude i got maybe half before i had to leave and i was their 4 hours lol i am serious maybe we both should be a lil more happy,but not much

[ndeck83]

Originally Posted by pirate_pete

lol a sprint usb modem whodnt give you 300-400kbps if it is dial up do you mean cellular modem? try clearwire as long as you dont use p2p or host a website expect 1.2-1.4mbps or if not idsn or idsl if you can lol

Yes, I am reffering to the Sprint Mobile Broadband USB Modem by Novatel Wireless (Ovation U720™)

I knoiw a few other folks around here that use them.

[pirate_pete]

u try clearwire , as long as you dont p2p or host website or dont move around i do belive it is faster and cheaper , and alas i thought the cellulr modems were at leasy 768kbps

[ndeck83]

According to clearwire's website they can't validate my address so I guess this means it is unavailable to me.

The thought of no High Speed internet just makes me want to move back into our old house.