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Seriously. This year I will buy a wood stove and next winter will be the mildest on record. Mark my words.
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Seriously. This year I will buy a wood stove and next winter will be the mildest on record. Mark my words.
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Progress, and a roadblock.
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Internet Conundrum | homesteaddad
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Internet Conundrum | homesteaddad
slider909
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Our house is 750' feet from road and Time Warner wouldn't run the service for just a single house. We have 24 acres, I might have told them that were were planning on subdividing the land in the future so they ran a DS3 600' in, they give you 150' at N/C. Took about a year and untold phone calls and meetings to get it installed.
therealmjfox
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Welcome to what is quickly becoming the #1 quality of life issue of rural living. You have my sympathies.
When we finally got 5 MB DSL service at my place, it was a major celebration and came after almost 10 years of lobbying, begging, pleading, offering to bribe the local phone company by me and my neighbors. In the end they got around to it when they felt like getting around to it, which sucks considering how much tax money they have collected to wire up rural broadband.
Read this and weep (or scream): Telecoms take HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS for national broadband, but don't want to deliver
In the meantime if 4G LTE is available in your area it's probably the best alternative. Yes it's significantly more expensive with data limits and overage fees but it works (usually) and is better than nothing. Just give up on the idea of streaming netflix or using services like dropbox and you can easily fit into a 4-6G allowance.
I would consider satellite an absolutely last ditch desperate effort. I've heard so much negative feedback from users, and if you have to dial into a VPN for work, then it's simply out of the question. Though most of the experiences I have heard from were years ago, so who knows if it's improved. Maybe someone using it can give us a report.
Larro Darro
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The painting is looking good. I wouldn't worry about any grown turkeys getting coyote caught. They have some of the best eyesight of any birds. Now the chicks might get ate.
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I called AT&T again and got another service tag set up. They are going to send another person out to see if they can get me internet. The woman I spoke with this time seemed to take more interest and at least said she was putting detailed notes on the file. We will see. Hughesnet actually has one of the larger allowances for internet usage, and from what reading I have done their newest gen 4 service is supposed to be decent. Sprint wireless just has such a low allowance and with all the pics I like to upload for the blog I am not sure i could do it. I may have to I suppose.
Larro, good to know about the turkeys. I may also do some predator hunting with the chickens and sheep coming.
Larro, good to know about the turkeys. I may also do some predator hunting with the chickens and sheep coming.
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I was never able to get high speed... the last offer on the table was $14,000 or so for comcast and that would have required a multi-year business account...
Funny thing is I can throw a rock and just about hit my neighbors roof and they have comcast... it comes from another direction and we have a small draw between us.
So... we paid for the neighbors comcast and set up a directional transmitter to our place... worked very well... except the few times a year when it would have to be reset and no one was home overthere.
Funny thing is I can throw a rock and just about hit my neighbors roof and they have comcast... it comes from another direction and we have a small draw between us.
So... we paid for the neighbors comcast and set up a directional transmitter to our place... worked very well... except the few times a year when it would have to be reset and no one was home overthere.
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I don't like Glidden paint. Bought some Friday, went to use it today, two inches of sludge on the bottom. Only reason I bought but was I wanted the paint then, and their color match computer was down, we wanted a Glidden color so ninjas to get a Glidden bucket. Never again.
EddieWalker
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Glidden is a contractor grade paint. You can get a lot of it cheap, but it's of poor quality compared to the premium brands. I put Sherwin Williams at the to of my list for paint, but think the Valspar Premium is really good for a lower price then Sherwin Williams. Behr used to be good, but it's down there with Glidden and Olympic now.
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