Cell phone tower and disasters

Over here, unless you can pay a king's ransome for fiber to the property FTP you only get fibre sneaky to the cabinet FTC and copper wire from the end of the street or whatever. I have FTC but manage to get 25Mbs download and 9.5Mbs uplink. Some cable suppliers provide does of nearly double that.

 

A lot of places are not FTTH (fiber to the home).
Although there's a pair of huge AT&T SLC cabinets very close to my building, I can only choose between Spectrum/Time Warner Cable or Frontier. Frontier wanted $90/mo for DSL and double that for FIOS, so I went with TWC.

If T-Mobile & Sprint merge, I hope Legere reconsiders selling internet service. He'd certainly have more than enough bandwidth to do it.

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any word from the pr gov on how this is working?

 

Thanks for a most enlightening post, now if only the same amount of effort and creativity were applied to the programme content! If only…

 

ah will, you're showing your age (and mine). my thirty somethings love the content available from streaming services.

 

I moved from the UK to the USA in 1983, and have never owned a TV. When friends ask "Why?" I tell them "Nothing worth watching! Why bother?"
As FZ put it so succinctly in "I Am The Slime"

 

same, and i was born here. entertainment for sheeples.

 

Have not shown up here for awhile -- seems that "unexpected database error," is the usual answer when I try to log-in.

Just to say, cell phones DO NOT WORK for some of us. In my area, if I want a cell signal, I have to walk down my driveway about 200 yards...that's with Verizon.

Then, if I go another half-mile, I can get a signal for a stretch of about 200 yards.

T-Mobile, ATT, Sprint, none at all.

Landline works when the power is out, which seems about 20 percent of the time here.

The local phone company offers "FREE" telemarketing call blocking for my landline. It works fantastically. Telemarketing calls to my home have dropped to basically zero (which begs the question why don't all carriers offer this for FREE).

Of course, my landline bill is $40 per month....

Oh, TV. I have it. Over-the-air broadcast. I get ABC, NBC, FOX and PBS. Cost was the $125 for the antenna. People seem to think that with no smartphone and no cable/satellite and achingly slow DSL that I live a backwards kind of life.

I prefer to think of it as a "classic" life.
kris

 

Kris, you seem to be a modern day heroine (female hero) and I can't imagine the challenges you face daily.

 

We have very mildly moved in that direction. We moved from < 0.5 acre to 6+ acres last year. It appears to be "country" with farms as neighbors but you can see/hear the 60 mph highway traffic that is less than a mile way. Our work commute is not too bad though.

This past weekend we moved our irrigation pump & winterized the system We also got the front blade installed on our old tractor. Hopefully it will plow snow with tire chains even though it is only rear wheel drive.

 

Cool ! Irrigation? The sky does that for us, Spring, Summer Autumn and Winter.

PS: Autumn may also be known as Fall in some outlandish places.

 

The leaves are certainly falling here.
It has been especially dry this year. Ideally a vegetable garden needs at least 0.5 inch of rain per week. So far this pas 12 months, we are under 35 inches of precipitation.

 

My lawn, about 28 sq.yds. is about 9-10" long ATM because it's has been too waterlogged to cut since summer (whichever day that was this year)! Mainly thanks to incessant storms and the tail ends of several Atlantic hurricanes which hit us at merely storm force, so thankfully, only 3 fatalities.

Your mini ranch sounds heavenly btw!

 

Wow, I got into the site without issue.

First, I don't think I am any hero. Indeed, a co-worker called me "whiny" today. I have to admit, that I injured my left knee cutting down a leaning maple tree this weekend -- we had a bit of a windstorm and the tree was ready to fall -- husband did the actual cut, I was the one that dealt with the fallen tree and a big section took me out....Next time, I cut, he stands to the side. But the knee hurts. I took off work a couple of hours early today.

Anyway, I just don't see why people need the latest cable TV show. The latest smartphone, the 24/7 access to anything. Nice? Sort of. Necessary -- not to me.

I much prefer to be able to walk out my door and hear the owls, the coyotes here in the remote Oregon Coastal Mountain Range -- even those Stellar Jay birds that steal my dog's food. In the city, I would hear the neighbor's stereo, the passing traffic, etc. An even trade, I would submit.

For my take on where I live:

 

You can keep the coyotes. My neighbors have spotted one here. I am afraid my son's Papillons would be snacks. We have deer and my wife likes watching the bats at night.
It is way different than the city of 2 million where I was raised, for sure.

 

don't forget the sirens.

 

Funny, I would have thought that Bisco would like sirens...