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> Have roofers out putting on a new roof,

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> Have roofers out putting on a new roof, and for that the antenna for
> my wireless internet connection will be down. So for next few days,
> wont have a net connection. Hope to be back soon

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> Hellmark wrote:
> See, this is why I pay that $10.95 a month to PeoplePC-
> I refuse to do without the 'net. Dial-up is at least very capable
> of getting me to Usenet where I can visit with my pals. Sucks
> for binary groups, 'natch, but this ain't a binary group, eh? LOL
> Hurry back Hellmark!

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> Reason I don't bother with dialup for backup (can use my brother's for
> free) is out here, if we're lucky its 15kbps top end. And thats not
> counting the incredible amount of lag ON TOP. The phone lines out here
> are so messed up, that even for the slow speeds they have a
> disproportionate amount of lag. It gets so bad that connection
> timeouts are frequent.

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> On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 19:04:26 GMT, Hellmark
> <hellmark@gmail.XXXXSPAM.com> wrote:
> Reminds me of my old connection back in Pacific, Mo!

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>Miracle Smith's last words before the Sword of Azrial plunged through his
>body were:
>
>Well, when the roofers put the antenna back up, it wasn't knocked much out
>alignment, so I have some connection. ISP is still gonna readjust it, but
>its not totally dead. Was expecting to be AWOL till next week.
>
>Reason I don't bother with dialup for backup (can use my brother's for
>free) is out here, if we're lucky its 15kbps top end. And thats not
>counting the incredible amount of lag ON TOP. The phone lines out here are
>so messed up, that even for the slow speeds they have a disproportionate
>amount of lag. It gets so bad that connection timeouts are frequent.

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> Miracle Smith's last words before the Sword of Azrial plunged through
> his body were:
>
> Well, when the roofers put the antenna back up, it wasn't knocked
> much out alignment, so I have some connection. ISP is still gonna
> readjust it, but its not totally dead. Was expecting to be AWOL till
> next week.
>
> Reason I don't bother with dialup for backup (can use my brother's for
> free) is out here, if we're lucky its 15kbps top end. And thats not
> counting the incredible amount of lag ON TOP. The phone lines out
> here are so messed up, that even for the slow speeds they have a
> disproportionate amount of lag. It gets so bad that connection
> timeouts are frequent.

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> Miracle Smith's last words before the Sword of Azrial plunged through
> his body were:
>
> Just found out that the ISP will be out next week, and they'll put on
> a new better antenna too. We have a subdivision being built next
> door, and the ISP has a deal with us that since we are the highest
> house they'll put a rebroadcaster on our roof and when the ISP starts
> having people from the subdivision sign up, we'll get free net.

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> I remember when Prodigy got bought out. Swbell switched to use the
> prodigy news servers, and the quality of the news access went to hell.

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> Ah, newer phone lines is one advantage we have up here,
> since it's a newer development.
> When I had Prodigy (which was sold to SBC) I was damn
> lucky to get connected at 33,000bps (or, 33.0Kbps). This cheaper
> (by half!) PeoplePC is connected at a steady 45,200 (45.2Kbps)
> all the time. (I'm off in a weird corner, and the wireless reception
> isn't reliable.)

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> Hellmark wrote:
> There was a fellow down the hill who cut a deal like that
> with our local small-dish microwave TV service way back
> when- what was the name of that?
> Anyway, he let them put the huge antennas in his yard,
> and he free TV. But when his wife died, and he wanted to
> move, they had to remove the equipment and all the folks
> who had subscribed had to get satellite TV.

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> *Everything* went to hell- that's why we got the expensive
> sat when it became available to us.