If you use dial-up then yes you need a land line - sm

• Do any of you have AT&T? - Ticked with internet service
  • AT&T is going door to door here trying to get - people to switch from Time Warner to them
  • If you use dial-up then yes you need a land line - sm -
    • No, do not have dial-up, is that still around? - Ticked with internet service
      • Lots of us still have dial-up, the cost of - sm -
  • that is what they do...i left a year ago - Georgia MT
    • If I can ask, what company are you with? - Ticked with internet service
  • AT&T - Busy Fingers
    • My aunt has extremely low rate for land, no frills but - Ticked with internet service
      • basic PC/phone line - txcatgirl
  • I live in SC and have Verizon for telephone - pc
    • I do have Time Warner - Me
    • Windstream/Bonage/MagicJack - txcatgirl
      • Gee, let's make that VONAGE! - txcatgirl
        • What do you do if internet goes down? How do you call cable? - Lonnie
          • I have a love-hate thing with Vonage. - Hayseed

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Won't pretend I understand VOIP but I know its available with my broadband.

I moved and I can't get a land line for (perhaps) another week.  I've already lost a week's income because of the promblem (THANK YOU, CHARTER!!).  I need a quick fix.  I am open to any and all suggestions to getting set up on Friday with a land line or VoIP, even if it is with Vonage for a week until I get my land line phone to work with my DAC phone.  I just moved into this apartment on Monday, but I let Charter know on 1/4 that the previous tenant had turned in her keys, but until she pays the outstanding balance -- heck, she probably hasn't even gotten her final bill yet!!!), they put a "freeze" on phone service. I got that unfrozen yesterday by going into their main local office with my lease agreement, but I have already lost a weeks' pay because of this and I need a quick fix.  They installed my ISP and TV today. I REALLY need to work this weekend.

I am probably in real jeopordy of losing my job.

On top of this, when my son and his roommate came over last weekend to help me pack, they told me they had both lost their jobs to a family of Indians who had come in and bought out their store's owner.  By our State's examination, only one passed the English literacy exam so she is the only only who can answer the phone.  Since the 4 Indian brothers need the managers' positions and they bought 4 stores, 4 managers (my son any his roommate and 2 others) are out of jobs and another 25 or so have left because of the new managers' incompetence. 

Please offer help in getting a land line so I can work.  I am feeling so overwhelmed and it is hard to think with this kind of pressure.  I'm thinking of installing Vonage's VoIP for a week until Charter can get their act together and I get their service.  It's hard to reach other services like ATT when I don't have a phone to contact them.  Charter changed their protocol for getting land lines last week (just my luck) and did not tell my installer/sales rep of the changes.  They are telling the independent distributers it is because of having to reset 911.  I call that baloney.

Can I get a cell phone? How would that connection fit together? OMG, I am so in panic mode.  Please kick around some ideas so I don't have to start job hunting after 1 week after moving. 

I recently looked into this subject myself.  If you have Verizon available in your area, you can purchase a plan at about $55.00 per month with a two-year contract.  You will receive a card that you can insert into your laptop, which will provide you with unlimited Internet access at the speed of DSL.  As far as I know, there are no other cell service providers that have come up with this type of card yet, but I'm sure it's bound to happen in the future.  Another option is to purchase a satellite telephone and phone cards as you go along, but the cards are really outrageous in price.  One last thing that I would suggest is that you phone cell providers in your area to see if they have any technical gadgets you could attach to the cell phone for Internet access.  Many of the satellite phone companies have separate packages you can buy, which can be attached to laptops or PDAs.  I also have a TracPhone, so I know it does not come with hardware that will do the trick.

Good luck to you in setting everything up.  With the way that technology is moving, I'm sure there must be a way to accomplish what you want. 

That is so funny as one year I had my aunt and uncle visit from NYC -- where I was born -- and they asked if I had power and sewer system, etc.  And we are the same as you are on land.  They about died when they walked to the walkway, looked down and saw 53 homes on the water, it is a awsome site when you are from a large city like NYC.  I have cable TV, Comcast internet, the wires are in the concrete walkways.  Before they built this new moorage we had wooden walkways and our power lines, etc. were overhead and they were dangerous.  But they come undergrown from the street above and through the concrete walkways.  Have natural gas heat.   Portland has one of the largest number of floating homes as Seattle now has a moratoreum on building anymore.  So our prices are rising finally.    We are safer than normal homes near a river during a flood as we only go up, up up as we are hooked onto pilings on three sides of our houses.   So we float upwards.    Thanks for asking. 

we're "refusing" to work? Rely on the kindness of strangers, or what? People really need to get a grip on reality here.

of DELUSION AND DENIAL (de Nile as in river *LOL*)

Women use both sides of their brains, a rarity for a man.......*wink*

Hi!

I say wait to land the accounts first before you think about what equipment to get. You basically want to use what your client is using, not make the client switch around to your set-up. Maybe others will say differently. But I figure you save $ that way by not getting unnecessary stuff.

Good luck!

BTW, I was just reading that self-employed folks really need to increase their fees once a year just to keep up with inflation. I think a lot of times MTs who are ICs for services forget that the service is their client, not their boss. ICs need to negotiate for the right line rate because remember, you are paying for a lot out of your own pocket now.

Diane

I am currently working part time IC for two different people, I have a little less than one year transcription exp, all in family practive or GI...I have been thinking about trying to get my own account locally but not sure about some of the "in's and out's".  Those of you who do this, do you have someone who covers for you when you have to leave town?  I have always had someone to QA my work, so if I do my own account and have a question(blank) do  you call the office and ask or do you leave it blank?  I am kinda back and forth w/ the idea, I know I would make more money, but not sure if I want ALL the responsibility. 

Any suggestions??  I have 7 years clinic experience and am looking for work.  Seems like I cannot get a response back to test or interview.  I need a company that offers TAT, not set hours.  I send in resumes and cover letters daily...What else could I do??? 

Also, in the meantime does anyone have suggestions on "practice files".  I want to expand my skills/specialties.  I have not done radiology and have always wanted to get into it...Thanks for any advice!

You can get an idea in the difference using documents you have already created, assuming you're working in Word. Simply open a document and check the properties. Click on the statistics tab and you will see the number of lines as well as characters with and without spaces. If you're currently getting paid by the line and a line is 65-characters with spaces, do the math and see how that number of lines compares with the number of lines in your stats.

One thing to keep in mind: if you have a blank line between paragraphs, instead of hitting the enter key twice, format your document to give the appearance of blank lines between paragraphs.

Are you using dial-up?  When I was using dial-up Bellsouth was going to put a whopper of a bill on my phone because of all the usage (unlimited long distance they say.... yeah, right!).  I went with AT&T and they never once said there was a limit on my long distance usage.  I was using MEGA time on my second line for my dial-up usage (working 7 days a week, 12-14 hours a day!).

Hi,

 I go after the small offices, not companies and they usually want their stuff delivered and don't care what kind of internet you have.  I normally have my docs use a DVR but an office called me who still uses tapes.  So, there are those docs who still do it the old fashioned way.

Hope that helps.

Cindi