No DSL, no cable, not even mail delivery to house.
Posted By: Indastix on 2008-06-03
In Reply to: Oops - zoe
I live in an isolated pocket half a mile from county line where cable service ends. Even postal service is in town 3 miles away in the other county so no delivery to the house, though we can have a mailbox just across the line. Most cell phones don't work in this mountainous area. My son was able to use his new cell phone with bells and whistles if he sat outside on the deck. His service provided by Verizon.
Phone lines here are ancient. Dialup maxed at 26.6, and that was rare, usually 19.2. When I called the phone company a few years ago and asked about the future of DSL here, the guy actually laughed before saying, "It'll be while, and there will probably be new and better technology before then." Only choice is satellite. So far, it's been very good. I've had one or two brief periods of outage on heavily overcast rainy or snowy days, but overall pleased. I do keep a cheap dialup plan for those times as a backup.
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Cable
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If cable goes (sm)
Looking into Vonage and wondering about problems with cable if it goes down, not quite sure how it works. email me please about ur opinion
sohocafenoir@comcast.net
thanks much...
got rid of my cable, no more TV
for a year now. Just watch movies from Net Flix. Got tired of all the commercials.
cable
I have cable and love it. Before we moved here I lived where I could only get dial up. What a difference. It is worth the money!
Ahh. Thanks. If that's cable TV, then that's why
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Cable or DSL
I have had cable internet service and thinking of switching to Bell South Ultra Fast 6.0. Do you think Bell South is okay too?
used to have cable
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do you have cable?
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Can't get cable where I'm at...
Only satellite. I will call my phone co. and ask about the VoIP. They're a rural company so I have no idea if they even offer it.
If you have not had cable before..sm
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Think about it.
Public TV is getting to be just as bad as cable.
Good old evening family sitcoms are just smut and garbage. We have a Netflix membership, so I fill up the queue with kids or family movies that I've researched and approved. The kids have been watching those all summer when they feel the need to watch TV at all.
Do most of y'all have DSL/cable?
It seems like most companies now require it - anyone still on sloooooow dial-up?
No cable, no TV, no antenna
We don't have the TV hooked into anything... not even to get the local channels off of the antenna. We just watched moveis on DVD or video if we want to watch something. I miss the news sometimes, but when we had it we either never watched it or couldn't find anything good on it.... what is the point then? lol. Much better this way.
No cable/satellite here either
Don't miss it. Don't really have time for TV. Getting really sick of Law and Order when I can watch though.
No cable? oh my...i'm addicted
to the news channels, Discovery and TLC. Our cable company "bundles" different tiers so you do get ripped off if you have just one favorite, but mine, well the news, not sure why though with all the murder, scandal,e tc. I blame my neice that I inherited it from her lol. she is the absolute worse!
We have ours through our cable provider...
Wireless here, too. DBF has 2 puters in his office with the router to the main, NIC card in the other, ditto on the NIC card with my stuff in my office. He sure is handy to have around...my own personal "tech support." 
busness DSL or cable
When starting your own accounts is it necessary to have a business line set up in your home office? I know it is more professional, but is there a law that would be broken by not having it when you start out?
I have unllimited LD through my cable co (sm)
I have Bright House cable (formerly Time Warner). They have a digital combo where I get phone, net, and cable.
my Vonage goes through DSL, not cable
so I'm out of long distance/internet if the phone line is down, but I wouldn't be able to work anyway without the phone line, so it makes no difference.
cable Internet.
Cable Internet just recently became available to my area. I was excited because most the MTSOs require cable. I am currently on satellite. I called about the cable internet and they said for a home office it is $80 per month and you only get 10 gigabytes or megabytes (don’t remember which) per month for downloading stuff off the internet. Then you get charged extra. Is this normal for cable Internet? It sounds strange to me but I am not very savvy on these sorts of things.
Wireless & Cable...
I know this is probably a stupid question, but what the heck. I have cable internet with only one cable outlet, which is in my living room. I currently have my computer in the living room but would like to put it in the back bedroom, which has no cable outlet. If I go wireless can I just put the computer in that room? Is NetGear any good? Simple to set up? TIA! 
I am seriously considering cancelling my cable, SM
although I would miss Food Network, History Channel, and such.
As Larry the Cable Guy says,
GIT 'ER DONE!
Adelphia Cable
I had this company for years; couldn't get anything else in the country where I live. Now Time-Warner (roadrunner) bought it out. Your service should also be Time-Warner soon. Adephia was BAD! Their service techs knew less than I did; had all sorts of problems off and on. Glad to be rid of them!!!
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