Pet peeves - Ugh!

[Handstitched]

On 3/26/2024 at 12:11 PM, kgg said:

Starlink internet maybe a option??

That was a consideration, until I found out how much  it costs. Here in Oz in my patch of the universe, from $170 - 230 p/m  ...ouch!!! 

On 3/26/2024 at 11:14 PM, tsunkasapa said:

Stoopud teknologee! This stuff is supposed to make life EASIER.

My complaint that I made with telecommunications authorities has been 'moved up' the list.

Get this, here in Oz we have the NBN 'National Broadband Network', fibre optics and  wireless internet  access. Thats all well and good in the cities, but out here in the bush, its very hit and miss. A friend of mine can get access to her house via wireless, but, I can't get it at my house...and we're in the same street, go figure. 

I can access Yahoo mail on my ye olde bunky 'pooter at home using 'hot spot 'on an old apple iphone,  but here on this fancy state of the art pooter  with the most up to date software( public access)  , I can't. Yahoo is supposed to send a 'verification code''  to my mobile phone, hit send......waiting waiting...nuthin. Perhaps I'm too from the US , lol.

Morse code was more reliable, and faster I'm sure LOL. 

HS

[kgg]

33 minutes ago, Handstitched said:

Thats all well and good in the cities, but out here in the bush, its very hit and miss.

I know what you mean when we moved from Newfoundland and at time we were rural we had fiber cable. Then we moved to Ontario to another rural area and it was like we were back in the dark ages even cell phones on the property were a hit and miss. We finally went point to point with our own dedicated connection where we do not share our bandwidth with anyone else but had to install a 100' tower. That was a chuckle and a half.

kgg

[Handstitched]

On 3/28/2024 at 11:34 AM, kgg said:

That was a chuckle and a half.

Thats how I describe  our telecommunications atm , laughable . I seem to be in a bit of a 'blackspot'. My friend can get wireless as I said , and her aunt can sort of get it on the other side of the main road,   and she's closer to the  wireless tower over looking the town, but right where I am, ...nuthing, and neither can my neighbour over the road. 

Patience is a virtue ...and a  PITA  , lol 

HS

[Northmount]

12 hours ago, Handstitched said:

Thats how I describe  our telecommunications atm , laughable . I seem to be in a bit of a 'blackspot'. My friend can get wireless as I said , and her aunt can sort of get it on the other side of the main road,   and she's closer to the  wireless tower over looking the town, but right where I am, ...nuthing, and neither can my neighbour over the road.

My son lives near a little town that has a cell tower on the hill above the town.  The town itself is in a dead spot, no cell coverage.  The school liked it for a few years, students couldn't use their cell phones!  Finally the staff and parents got tired of it so the school has put in a repeater.

Where he lives, he is in a valley.  Had to put a repeater and antenna on top of his 2 story house to be able to connect with one cell provider.  Others not able to connect with.  He had a buried telephone cable running past his place.  Couldn't get on it because all the pairs were already assigned.  Finally one of the phone company's techs came out and traced all the connections and found him a spare pair, so he now has a land line after several years without.  For internet service, he is on Starlink.  It works fairly well for him compared to having to use cell service with its costs and limitations.

 

[MarlinDave]

Vehicles with both metric and SAE fasteners, plus Torx, plus Phillips screws. Have to drag the whole shop under the car to test sizes. 

As for the T shirt, they usually  have the seams closer together in the back of the neck than the front. Thats the only way I can tell without putting it on wrong. 

[bladegrinder]

8 hours ago, Northmount said:

My son lives near a little town that has a cell tower on the hill above the town.  The town itself is in a dead spot, no cell coverage.  The school liked it for a few years, students couldn't use their cell phones!  Finally the staff and parents got tired of it so the school has put in a repeater.

Where he lives, he is in a valley.  Had to put a repeater and antenna on top of his 2 story house to be able to connect with one cell provider.  Others not able to connect with.  He had a buried telephone cable running past his place.  Couldn't get on it because all the pairs were already assigned.  Finally one of the phone company's techs came out and traced all the connections and found him a spare pair, so he now has a land line after several years without.  For internet service, he is on Starlink.  It works fairly well for him compared to having to use cell service with its costs and limitations.

 

I'm in the same boat, moved to the deep woods three years ago. my cell phone service is good but for internet I use a Verizon hot spot. it actually works great for internet, can watch Netflix with computor's running with no interruption''s and it's cheap, connected to my phone plan BUT...it's not on 24hrs. and even with the plan I'm on if I hacked it to work 24hrs a day I think I'd run out data on occasion.

Probably next year I'm going with Starlink, it just became available in my area a couple months ago. a little over a hundred bucks a month and six hundred for the equipment that you buy....that you set up yourself. my locale cable company wanted $9000.00 to run to my house, then two weeks later they were nice enough to give me the friend price of $7,500.00, no thanks.

After researching the satellite services available, Starlink came way out on top compared to Hughsnet.

[Northmount]

4 minutes ago, bladegrinder said:

Probably next year I'm going with Starlink, it just became available in my area a couple months ago. a little over a hundred bucks a month and six hundred for the equipment that you buy....that you set up yourself

It works.  The cable to his dish had a problem, they sent out a new cable and an upgraded dish, no charge.  I've thought about it too, even though I'm in a large urban location with fibre.  He is quite happy with his setup.  He would like to be on fibre too.  He and a group of other users along the foothills with poor or no service are looking at setting up a coop to own and run their own fibre, and tie into main fibre cables in 2 locations so they have a little redundancy.  Good question as to whether it will happen or just become a pipe dream.

[bladegrinder]

Retiring from the gas utility trade I can't tell you haw many cables I've seen cut. most times their marked but bad things happen, even a fallen tree can uproot and break cable. fibers always in conduit but that's no match for a back hoe. but then satellites fall from the sky too, ha, ha.

Right now I feel the less I'm attached in anyway with anything past my driveway I'm better off.

 

[Handstitched]

On 4/2/2024 at 11:28 PM, Northmount said:

so he now has a land line after several years

We still have a land line  as our mobile phone system  is so unreliable , a bit of rain or a bit of strong wind and the signal drops out. The land line is good for emergencies , also good to check for power outages , as that too is an issue in our town. My "Jenny "is on permanent standby. 

HS

[bladegrinder]

Yep, one of the first things I did when I moved here was install a Generac 2200 KW whole house generator and a 250 gallon LP tank. when hurricane Michael came thru my area didn't have electric for over two weeks. my line comes thru my woods about 1500 ft. with 100' pines on both sides of it. Haven't had any of them fall on it since the hurricane but when it come thru I had about a dozen and it took over two weeks to clear the downed trees and string new wire, only about 300' is under ground going from the last pole to the house. but honestly, I lost power during storms living in the city more often then I do living in the woods.