LMan1967
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*shrug* Im never w/o my cell. Esp since, on 50 acres, I carry it to call my wife back at the house when Im out working (or vice versa)
It's too far to yell...Are you still using a land line ?
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*shrug* Im never w/o my cell. Esp since, on 50 acres, I carry it to call my wife back at the house when Im out working (or vice versa)
It's too far to yell...
JDGREEN4ME
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Still have land line with no intention of giving it up. Have cell phones for travel emergency, etc.
sam5570
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still have land line no cell service here for 7miles from home ask the cell phone companies about putting a tower on top of the mountain even offred to give them a right of way they said no thanks not enough demand in our area but now we have century link for land line seeems to be doing alot better
Gods Country
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I have a land line and no cell.
They are vile contraptions. I hate them.
I know the end of humanity is near when my tractor comes with a place to store and plug in a cell phone, but no tool box.
They are vile contraptions. I hate them.
I know the end of humanity is near when my tractor comes with a place to store and plug in a cell phone, but no tool box.
Maxify55
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Yep! You betcha! Built 5 yrs ago and put 2 cat-5 connections in every room without one, not one, telephone connection.
We do get one bar of AT&T signal but with a MicroCell installed I have 5 bars throughout the house. All the minutes used while in the home are wi-fi'd and not charged back against the plan.
I lessened the minute usage on the plan to purchase the MicroCell.
We do get one bar of AT&T signal but with a MicroCell installed I have 5 bars throughout the house. All the minutes used while in the home are wi-fi'd and not charged back against the plan.
I lessened the minute usage on the plan to purchase the MicroCell.
dmccarty
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We still have a land line.
Previously I have wanted it as a standby for the cell phones. We have one wireless phone and a hard wired phone on the land line. Our wireless will not work without power. Our cell phones we can charge up in the car/truck. Heck we could charge it with the tractor.
Our Internet is via DSL. The service is horrible and slow. We are lucky to have the DSL so we have lived with it. But in the last year or so the service has gone down hill. Speed and reliability has really gotten bad. Service thinks we need a new line but I am doubtful. They guess that the line problems are because of the moisture content of the soil. I am not buying it.
Last night the DSL dropped. Then popped back on. This week the wifey was in town at a place that offers free WiFi. She ran into a someone we know who was at the place to get on the Internet to take a class. The Internet was down at the lady's house and at the store. That is not a line problem at my house.
Cable runs along the main road in front of us and it looks like homes up there can get 20Mbs. We are getting 1.5 Mbs down at best. I think we should be getting 750Kbs up but usually it is 20 Kbs.
The wifey dropped off fliers in the neighborhood and is now talking to people to call up the Cable company to run a survey to bring in service. We know of at least a few people who are willing to switch at this point.
Once we know cable will move it we will let DSL know we are going to switch if the service does not improve. There is 5-10MBs DSL behind us. Their service has to come in from the road in front but they have newer equipment we are not attached too so we get worse service. So far, with multiple phone calls, the phone company is doing nothing. The service guy is good but the problem is that the company does not want to resolve the problem. He asked, wink wink, if we were thinking of switching service providers. We took that as question as a way for him to increase pressure on them to fix the problem but it is not helping.
We use our cells for all out going calls. Very few calls go to the land line. The land line number we give out to companies who need a phone number. This minimizes phone calls to our cells. 99% of the calls to the cell phones are from people we know. The land line is for strangers. If we have to move to cable for Internet service we will drop the land line unless the price is very reasonable. We already have VOIP phone numbers so we can start giving those out to companies.
With cell service we have multiple providers but the land line is almost a monopoly and it shows.
Later,
Dan
Previously I have wanted it as a standby for the cell phones. We have one wireless phone and a hard wired phone on the land line. Our wireless will not work without power. Our cell phones we can charge up in the car/truck. Heck we could charge it with the tractor.
Our Internet is via DSL. The service is horrible and slow. We are lucky to have the DSL so we have lived with it. But in the last year or so the service has gone down hill. Speed and reliability has really gotten bad. Service thinks we need a new line but I am doubtful. They guess that the line problems are because of the moisture content of the soil. I am not buying it.
Last night the DSL dropped. Then popped back on. This week the wifey was in town at a place that offers free WiFi. She ran into a someone we know who was at the place to get on the Internet to take a class. The Internet was down at the lady's house and at the store. That is not a line problem at my house.
Cable runs along the main road in front of us and it looks like homes up there can get 20Mbs. We are getting 1.5 Mbs down at best. I think we should be getting 750Kbs up but usually it is 20 Kbs.
The wifey dropped off fliers in the neighborhood and is now talking to people to call up the Cable company to run a survey to bring in service. We know of at least a few people who are willing to switch at this point.
Once we know cable will move it we will let DSL know we are going to switch if the service does not improve. There is 5-10MBs DSL behind us. Their service has to come in from the road in front but they have newer equipment we are not attached too so we get worse service. So far, with multiple phone calls, the phone company is doing nothing. The service guy is good but the problem is that the company does not want to resolve the problem. He asked, wink wink, if we were thinking of switching service providers. We took that as question as a way for him to increase pressure on them to fix the problem but it is not helping.
We use our cells for all out going calls. Very few calls go to the land line. The land line number we give out to companies who need a phone number. This minimizes phone calls to our cells. 99% of the calls to the cell phones are from people we know. The land line is for strangers.
If we have to move to cable for Internet service we will drop the land line unless the price is very reasonable. We already have VOIP phone numbers so we can start giving those out to companies.With cell service we have multiple providers but the land line is almost a monopoly and it shows.
Later,
Dan
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dmccarty,
Through one of your cell providers, check and see IF you can get internet service. I think it is called an 'air card' or 'mobile internet service'. I've got it up here and am on it now. I also have it at home for the other 1/2. It is worth a shot and a heck of a lot faster than dial up.
Just need to pay attention to your downloads and you tube movies.
Through one of your cell providers, check and see IF you can get internet service. I think it is called an 'air card' or 'mobile internet service'. I've got it up here and am on it now. I also have it at home for the other 1/2. It is worth a shot and a heck of a lot faster than dial up.
Just need to pay attention to your downloads and you tube movies.
riptides
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Ahh, well the "air cards" offer various speeds and protocols due to service providers and coverage.
When you may get an aircard, your speeds may basically be the same as dial-up or be as good as WiFi.
You will have to look at the service providers in your area, to see what their "data" coverage is.
RTxx
EVDO
LTE -or-
WiFi and/or combinations of them.
dmccarty
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We have but we would blow through the data transfer limit very quickly. We have five computers on the Internet plus we stream video to the TV AND the kids stream to their PCs and iPods. We have a cell tower a mile away and have pretty good connectivity but we would eat up the data limit in no time.
The wifey is on a mission. :thumbsup: When I posted yesterday I did not know that she had printed up a note to all of the neighbors and left said note at all of their houses. The note was about getting cable access, what speed we thought we could get, its cost, and what people needed to do to get the cable installed. She did not ask people to call her but at this point at least 1/3 of the neighbors have told her that they are calling the cable company to push the company to run a line in the subdivision.
Later,
Dan
