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I think I'm giving up on this new fad thing called The ... - 1/18/2008 1:54:49 PM

littlesarbonn

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I'm to the point where I don't care anymore. I'm in one of those demographic areas of the country where we live right on the edge of a technological city hub but we're just far enough away to be somewhat of a third world country. If I lived 50 miles to the west, I'd qualify for all sorts of great Internet services from companies competing against each other. Instead, I'm stuck with either Comcast or AT&T. And because we're part of that third world country mentality out here in the crime capital of America, or is it the literary nadir of America (I forget which accolade we're embracing today), if we want Internet service we have to pay out the a** for it. You can't even touch Internet service out here without a HUGE "fee" for not also having digital cable services (no, not the simple plans either, but the ones that run at minimum of about $70), and THEN you can pay for high speed Internet. If you decide to go all Che Guevara and choose AT&T instead, you can't get "high-speed" Internet without first having a data phone plan, although you CAN choose the $10 line, which after taxes, weird unexplainable fees and mole-bashing charges, comes to $32, and THEN you can get the high speed Internet. But that "high-speed" Internet from AT&T tends to last about an hour before it just stops working. But that's okay, because you can then call AT&T and have them come out and find out what's wrong with it, BUT they'll have to charge you a $150 visit fee if by some chance the fault isn't AT&T's (which for the record, if the modem turns on, the technician determines it's YOUR fault, and he doesn't have time to wait an hour for the connection to stop working again, so cha-ching, that's $150, thank you). So, I now have a service called Clearwire, which is about the same price as the others, but it has no "you have to have cable or phone service" in order to use this wireless tower service. The only problem is: The high-speed for this service isn't really all that high, as I keep discovering every time I try to watch a Netflix movie online, because the movie starts up, plays twenty seconds and then has to refeed the connection for 7 minutes and thirty-eight seconds, before playing for two minutes and doing it again. Same thing with You tube.

So, you might get an idea why it just doesn't matter to me anymore if they want to charge for how much bandwidth you use. Right now, I've become one of those grandmas only checking email (and IGN) because I really can't do anything else. Yesterday, I found this paper thing on one of my shelves and opened it. It was this really old technology we used to refer to as "books". I downloaded some of this information for about a few hours yesterday and wondered how this new technology had gotten past me while I was so busy dealing with Internet, porn and American Idol.

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