L-188 From United States, joined Jul 1999, 28158 posts, RR: 70 Posted (2 years 2 months 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 476 times:
Hi guys,
For those of you who where participating in those "Guess the Airplane" threads with the Google Earth photos, the competition will be getting much tougher at the end of October.
After being handicapped by the fact that the longer the threads got the longer it took for me to the load the thread, causing others to register their guesses before I had had even seen the new photos....well I had to do something.
So I went down to the phone company and will be getting a high speed DSL line for the computer. So now I will be getting rid of my only occasionally 56.6K modom for the blistering speed of a 128 KBPS DSL connection...
It will be sweet....especially since I will also be getting Basic cable at the same time too!!!.
Just in time for the infamous Alaskan winter!!!!
OBAMA-WORST PRESIDENT EVER....Even SKOORB would be better.
AirCop From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 2, posted (2 years 2 months 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 471 times:
Take it Broadband hasn't been discovered in Alaska yet. DSL welcome to the semi-21st century. Qwest provides us with broadband, cable tv and the phone. I love the caller id that pops up on the tv when someone calls.
ANCFlyer From United States, joined Nov 2004, 22999 posts, RR: 100 Reply 8, posted (2 years 2 months 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 411 times:
Are you going with the GCI package? Or ACS?
I looked into it, because when I'm home, dial up is all I have. I'm never home long enough, really, to move to a faster connection. The expense simply isn't worth it in the long run. I have AOL, and it works fine for the most part.
When I spoke with GCI widgets and asked if I could use the DSL line in town, but have a dial-up connection here at work they said no. WTF? So that was that.
I have access over the company network (Fiber Optics) while I'm at work, which is 75% of the time, so I'll stick with Dial-up at home - for now.
What kind of package did you get, and from whom?
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L-188 From United States, joined Jul 1999, 28158 posts, RR: 70 Reply 9, posted (2 years 2 months 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 405 times:
I'm in Eagle River and we are Matanuska Telephone out here.
I was at the fair a couple of weeks ago and they had their booth up at Raven Hall. I picked up one of their brochures and made the observation that DSL was 6 bucks more then what I was paying for dial up.
So today I finally got around to going over their office, and found out that if you got their DTV package (TV over phone) that they will charge you the Dial up rate with DSL so that is what I went for.
Just going basic and basic at this point. I want to see how it works out before I fork out the money for HBO/Showtime.
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Chugach From United States, joined Dec 2004, 1028 posts, RR: 14 Reply 10, posted (2 years 2 months 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 404 times:
Quoting ANCFlyer (Reply 8): Are you going with the GCI package? Or ACS?
I've had my DSL and phone bundled up with ACS for as long as I've lived here and never had any issues or problems whatsoever. I have heavily restricted internet use at work (i.e. they track what sites you visit and would most like frown upon spending all day on A.net or whatever else), so it's nice to have the high-speed at home.
ANCFlyer From United States, joined Nov 2004, 22999 posts, RR: 100 Reply 11, posted (2 years 2 months 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 401 times:
Quoting Chugach (Reply 10): so it's nice to have the high-speed at home.
I agree, but since I'm only "home" 7-10 days (usually less) every month, the expense isn't worth it . . . especially since I can only have either Dial-up or DSL . . . not both to accomodate my traveling/working.
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KevinL1011 From United States, joined Mar 2005, 2132 posts, RR: 31 Reply 13, posted (2 years 2 months 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 385 times:
Quoting ANCFlyer (Reply 11): especially since I can only have either Dial-up or DSL
Same here.
Don't forget to save local dial up server telephone numbers for the area you're traveling to.
Hotel long distance charges can be steep.
One time I racked up a $220.00 phone bill at a Holiday Inn.
The front desk said it was free. They neglected to say to dial "8-1" first.
Also when traveling, you may need to turn off your firewall and /or virus scan to set up and connect to the remote server. Once connected, then it's OK to turn it back on.
I let my daughter go on line to talk to her friends on "My Space" when we were in Tempe, Az. to watch those loser Angels play at training camp.
I forgot to turn the protection back on. My laptop go so infected in 10 minutes, I couldn't shut it off. It took me a week to resurrect it.
ANCFlyer From United States, joined Nov 2004, 22999 posts, RR: 100 Reply 14, posted (2 years 2 months 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 381 times:
Quoting KevinL1011 (Reply 13): Don't forget to save local dial up server telephone numbers for the area you're traveling to.
Not necessary with AOL. Just plug in your area code and AOL does the rest. One of the reasons I kept it after I retired . . . I could be 'anywhere' in the US and Canada and AOL would find a local access number for me. At one point I had 27 different "local" numbers in my AOL Log-in . . . usually used the local airport code (e.g. CID, DSM, ORD) to list them .
Quoting KevinL1011 (Reply 13): Hotel long distance charges can be steep.
And sometimes, even with an 800 number they limit to 30 minutes the length of the call . . . that prevents net surfers (like me) from staying logged in 24/7. Not so at Marriotts though . . . gotta love Marriott hotels.
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L-188 From United States, joined Jul 1999, 28158 posts, RR: 70 Reply 15, posted (2 years 2 months 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 350 times:
Quoting ANCFlyer (Reply 14): One of the reasons I kept it after I retired . . . I could be 'anywhere' in the US and Canada and AOL would find a local access number for me. At one point I had 27 different "local" numbers in my AOL Lo
That is about the only advantage I can see with going to "America on Hold"
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Try Cable @ 5 Mb/sec That will get you into the 21st century.
Quoting ANCFlyer (Reply 14): Not so at Marriotts though . . . gotta love Marriott hotels.
AOHell?!?!?! Considering what I know about Dial up/broadband availibility in AK, MAYBE. But there is no reason if your staying in a hotel in the continental US that I can think of that you would need dial up, unless it's a by-the-hour type deal
ANCFlyer From United States, joined Nov 2004, 22999 posts, RR: 100 Reply 17, posted (2 years 2 months 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 332 times:
Quoting TedTAce (Reply 16): AOHell?!?!?! Considering what I know about Dial up/broadband availibility in AK, MAYBE. But there is no reason if your staying in a hotel in the continental US that I can think of that you would need dial up, unless it's a by-the-hour type deal
Broadband availabilty in Alaska sucks. Unless you're in Anchorage (+suburbs) or Fairbanks, you're fucked.
As far as my trips outside Alaska and my AOL set up, it seems to serve it's purpose. I can't see plugging into the hotels High Speed lines and paying an extra $10 a DAY when I have unlimited AOL at the small cost of having AOL find me a local number with which to connect.
Did I also mention that AOLs filters for BS e-mail is excellent. Comparing my AOL mail with my Yahoo mail is like comparing a BAFDT to a Dodge . . .
As an example: I average 200 spam messages a day on Yahoo. I don't get that many a year on AOL. So . . . although I've heard people comdemn AOL, I am quite satisfied . . .
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2 Things about the disparity.
1) Yahoo is the WORST of the free services for junk e-mail.
2) Depending on the domain you are using, your e-mail is as vulnerable as you allow it to be. If you go to every other site on the net and tell them your e-mail address they will spam you and give your address to everyone else.
I have several accounts. Hotmail is for un-trusted sites that have vague e-mail policies. It gets spam like you have never seen. G-mail is for trusted sites, though when I signed up here I started to get Nigerian scam e-mails. Then I have my earthlink account for trusted busines sites like my electric company and job search stuff. It gets a little spam, but not much.
Back in the day, that was the fastest speed for an ISDN line. I remember longing for that kind of speed. Of course this was in the days of 14.4 and 28.8 dial up. I'm not that old, but we used to have a 1.2, and a 2.4 - and that was sloooooooow.
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That will get you into the 21st century.
Considering what I know about Dial up/broadband availibility in AK, MAYBE. But there is no reason if your staying in a hotel in the continental US that I can think of that you would need dial up, unless it's a by-the-hour type deal