We are thinking about getting internet through dish network--but im sure it will lose signal whenever it rains or anything like it does with our dish--but still better than dial up, and at $50/month plus $25ish to keep AOL (its not up to me to keep aol by the way.....) its pretty expensive.
Anyone else have dish internet?
I've used sat-internet before. Download speeds are great, but uploads are slower than dial-up, and there is a slight, but noticable delay between the time you click a link, and the time it starts to load.
Dang - Comcast advertises 6Mb/s here (8 if you go with their voice service), but it looks like quite a few of you are seeing well above that. Do you have the voice service?
Nope, internet only. I barely use my cell phone so a landline is useless. I think it's $30 for basic cable these days in the city. My g/f pays like $30 and she gets some cable channels but none of them like TNT, USA, TBS. I think to get the normal cable channels it's $50. My relatives pay $80 for a digital package to get some HD channels. I don't watch enough TV to warrant another $30 added to the bill. $64 is plenty for internet a month!
I apologize.
Actually i'm not sorry at all,
But im just sorry people can't see the lighter side of some things.
I guess next time someone wants to know the internet speeds of others-i'll just keep on scrolling by (at dial up speeds )
Loosen up-life is too short to care what others think.
I've used sat-internet before. Download speeds are great, but uploads are slower than dial-up, and there is a slight, but noticable delay between the time you click a link, and the time it starts to load.
Thanks for the info!
That is interesting how upload speeds can be even SLOWER than dial up, apparently its POSSIBLE! Wow!
But i do mostly downloading, not much uploading. So i guess its not a big deal. I do hope we end up getting this, i mean $49 a month is a bad price, but i'm not sure what normal DSL prices are either so i don't really have much to compare to.
I had a dream I had DSL recently......and then kermit the frog walked into my room while i was on MF and said "You wish Tanner" and slapped me and i woke up.
lol.
Don't know what to make of that.........since when was Kermit the frog evil in dreams? But he is right-i do wish. The dream was nice while it lasted....... Good day.
cwa - i had digital phone for a bit, but it was just to expensive to keep. now just the internet modem and digital cable/dvr. oh and two TVs that still just hook up tp the coax (no box).
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And mine - suppose to be 7MB - a little slow today, am usually at around 7800kb.
Had AT&T call a couple of days ago. Had new service in the area and wanted me to move up to 768k speeds. Just laughed and hung up.
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