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Our satellite TV co, (we have no cable in the sticks), talked us into hooking up to their Internet service, telling us how fast and efficient it was. It took about 2 months to really get clued in on the efficiency of their service and what a disappointment. The service is half the speed of our last service, (which we just went back to), there's a natural delay communicating with the satellite, plus it's slow speed, some downloads even time out and shut down! I just wanted to put this out there incase your thinking of going that route. Unless your so far out you don't even have telephones, forget the satellite Internet services. You won't be pleased. JMHO. PJ
 
I think I'd only use Satellite internet if there was absolutely no other option.
 
I forgot to say that when a storm approaches from the South, direction of the signal, the system goes dead until the storm passes. Another disadvantage. PJ
 
Wow, makes me appreciate my cable internet although I am not at all fond of the monthly cost.
 
Yoda--You're in Locust Grove, OK--when I lived there during WW2--we sat around the large console radio and listened to "Amos and Andy", "Ted Mack Amateur Hour",
"Fibber McGee and Molly", "Jack Benny". "The Lone Ranger (Hi Ho Silver! Away!), " Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of Men?--The Shadow Knows!". You young'uns have no
idea what I'm talking about--I understand there's this new thing called "Google"--you can look up these radio programs---no internet, no television, no ugly roof-top
antennas, no cable, no satellite dish. After WW2, a couple of home owners got TV--beamed from Tulsa--we kids would look in the windows, and watch whatever the
one TV station offered--(Side note)--We were all sitting around on the front porch one evening fanning ourselves, and a large wolf walked right down the dirt road no
more than 25 ft way--No PBS nature show--real wildlife! This was only 3 blocks from downtown!
 
"The good old days" (continued)--no cell phones--The telephone company consisted of an older lady with a switchboard in her living room connected to the houses which
had wall phones. Hours 8am to noon, 1pm to 7pm. Emergencies--all hours--No body knew telephone "numbers" Just ring up (and I mean "ring up the hand crank"), and
ask Maude (the operator)--"Maude--let me speak to EmiLou, maybe she will give me the recipe for that raccoon stew she had at the cookout Saturday".
In 1945, my uncle passing through Hawaii called grandma--"Billy, you're calling all the way from Ha--Wa--Ee?" "How's the weather there?" He waited 2 hours in line to use
the phone, long distance call at $2 a minute and grandma's asking him about the weather! No weather channel, I guess!
 
That's funny to me, as I remember the days before TV also! I used to lay on the floor with my head against the radio speaker listing to the programs you mentioned. We had a high class radio, it sat on the floor and it even had short wave and we could get police calls! Harold, were telling our age, everybody under 55 is a kid to me! :highly_amused: PJ
 
We live a couple hundred yards from the telecom switch. We had a solid, fast connection from the days of dial-up through DSL, to now with fiber-optic. Briefly considered satellite back-when but declined. Too much "weather" for reliable reception.

I do recall waiting hours for Mosaic to download over a dial-up connection. Multiple attempts before it came across intact. And the newsreader FreeAgent. :lastweek:
 
"I do recall waiting hours for Mosaic to download over a dial-up connection."

Hoo-Haa! I remember waiting hours for cp/m to download to my Commodore 128 (dual processor) back in the day. After about six hours through my spiffy 56K modem, I could run WordStar and dBase on cp/m, then switch back to the Commodore BASIC to play Adventure. Golly!
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The height of high tech for me was the ability to telnet directly into ERIC for my doctoral research.
 
Remember the old DOS based Word Perfect, around 1980/81? Had to keep a list on hand with so many individual commands you couldn't remember them all! Once you found where you wanted to go it worked fine. Isn't progress grand! PJ

Memories,
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