Topic: Elk in my yard tonight

[avking]

Nah, over off Burnett dr...not quite sure if it counts as Robie Creek though, just moved here from town.

Ok. You are on that Mesa that is below us and across from the church. We go to church with the couple that lives in that funky/fancy looking house on top of that Mesa. Welcome to the area. You should love it compared to living in town. I could never live in town again.

[SNAFU]

Yep, so-far I like it.

only drawback is the dsl sucks up here....

It's Rumor'd that they may be upping it around the first of the year, but haven't heard anything concrete on that...

Looked at Wild Wisp but thier TOU is a bit overboard.....not to mention their own blog suggests they have a Lot of downtime....

[avking]

Yep, so-far I like it.

only drawback is the dsl sucks up here....

It's Rumor'd that they may be upping it around the first of the year, but haven't heard anything concrete on that...

Looked at Wild Wisp but thier TOU is a bit overboard.....not to mention their own blog suggests they have a Lot of downtime....

We have had Wild Wisp for over 5 years. Downtime is very infrequent, maybe a few times a year and they usually get it back up really quick. A massive storm might cause a half day or day outage, but that is only every couple years. It is much faster than the dsl offered around here. They should be just a fee months away from launching an upgrade that will double the speed offered and they allow you to buy more generous bandwidth limits. We watch u-tube, have a voip phone and download DirecTV movies without issue.

[SNAFU]

We have had Wild Wisp for over 5 years. Downtime is very infrequent, maybe a few times a year and they usually get it back up really quick. A massive storm might cause a half day or day outage, but that is only every couple years. It is much faster than the dsl offered around here. They should be just a fee months away from launching an upgrade that will double the speed offered and they allow you to buy more generous bandwidth limits. We watch u-tube, have a voip phone and download DirecTV movies without issue.

My issue is with Bandwidth, My dad lives here as well and is disabled and loves to watch old Movies on Netflix all day (cant at the moment with 640k dsl...) when we were in town he would burn through roughly 4-6GB/ of bandwidth per day....

I doubt Wild Wisp's Bandwidth policy's would get along with that to well.

[avking]

My issue is with Bandwidth, My dad lives here as well and is disabled and loves to watch old Movies on Netflix all day (cant at the moment with 640k dsl...) when we were in town he would burn through roughly 4-6GB/ of bandwidth per day....

I doubt Wild Wisp's Bandwidth policy's would get along with that to well.

Yeah, 6 - 8 GB probably would not fly with Wild Wisp. DSL service out here generally sux. Needing 6 - 8 GB a day is probably not typical up in the hills, where dsl is only a couple years old. A T1 would be your best option, but would not be cheap. I did a lot of research about 3 years ago, when trying to setup a home office for remote IT work. The T1 was the only option that would work, and the quote was $400 / month. Problem for me was, the copper up here is so old, it could not reliably support a T1.

[SNAFU]

Yeah, a T1 would be a bit out of my budget 

According to a local Qwest tech they might be redoing the lines and adding a dslam around the 1st of the year.

Hopefully they will actually do it.