{"id":1249,"date":"2010-04-02T07:34:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T12:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2011-01-25T07:56:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T12:56:34","slug":"you-still-have-dial-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2010\/04\/you-still-have-dial-up\/","title":{"rendered":"You Still Have Dial Up?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"old<\/a>Yep, I still have a dial up for my internet access. I live in the sticks. There’s no cable TV\/internet out here. No fiber optic lines. No cell\/wireless service at my house. It’s one of the downsides of living in this beautiful area.<\/p>\n

For years I said that dial up was my only option, knowing that in reality there was the option for satellite internet, if I was willing to pay the price. Which I wasn’t. Until recently.<\/p>\n

I decided that I’d bite the bullet and trade some more of my hard-earned dollars for higher connection speed. Mind you, out here in the sticks, what counts as high speed is only 512K – slow to all you urbanites connecting at 3G+, but still almost 20x faster than my dial up, which averages about 28K. <\/p>\n

This decision was reinforced by the fact that I was having phone problems. Noise on the line that’s merely annoying during a telephone conversation causes the more sensitive modem to kick off after a few seconds, if it can connect at all. So I made 2 calls – to the phone company to once again repair the ancient lines, and to the regional satellite internet provider.<\/p>\n

The phone company’s now had two tries at it over two weeks, and my line is clear. For now. <\/p>\n

The satellite provider, on the other hand, didn’t go so well. It seems Wild Blue<\/a> is using all their bandwidth on current customers, and can’t connect new people until they gain more bandwidth, which I assume means they need to put up a new satellite.<\/p>\n

\"satellite<\/a>So with the help of Baxter’s dad Ryan<\/a> on his high speed connection, I did some research into Hughesnet<\/a>, only to learn that their prices are higher and many of their policies (like customer satisfaction, cancellation, and usage limits) are very restrictive, and unacceptable to me.<\/p>\n

I waited a few more days till I was at a high speed connection myself, and did a fair amount of surfing. I landed on one possibility after another. Every time I entered my home addy info, and every time I was told, “Sorry, this service is not available in your area. Please check back later.” The only exception was Hughesnet, my unacceptable option.<\/p>\n

So here I sit on my dial up. At least I can connect for now, and can get back to posting.<\/p>\n

Your turn: any ideas on how I can get a faster connection? PLEASE let me know!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yep, I still have a dial up for my internet access. I live in the sticks. There’s no cable TV\/internet out here. No fiber optic lines. No cell\/wireless service at my house. It’s one of the downsides of living in this beautiful area.<\/p>\n

For years I said that dial up was my only option, knowing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-i-see-it","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2140,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions\/2140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}