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Originally Posted by cboy2us

and then people wonder what the flip happened to your phone.

Funny you should say that, everyone always says, "where were you?? I called and it just rang and rang ?"

Originally Posted by '97ventureowner

About $60/mo. I think they have specials once in awhile. Installation was free, and the router was free too. I read where the equipment they give you for free costs over $1000. I have this good sized box, they installed in my basement that handles my phone and internet, and hopefully later this year FiOS TV.It also contains a battery backup good for about 2 hrs. in case of a power outage, you can still use your phone, one issue digital phone has since it goes dead during a power outage, unlike a landline.

That's not a bad price for that. Yeah I bet the system equipment is expessive for either fiberoptics-FO or the sattelite internet. I know those who work on FO make killer money, even out this way in the BFE. All FO in this area is burried or soon will be. The tubes it goes in have been in the ground since 1997. :

Originally Posted by Gir-_-

maybe they're waiting for me to finish college so I can do it lol.. be in the hot sun, middle of farm land america laying down a thick ass heavy optic cable...

after the cable is laid down, they still gotta change out the routers and switches with faster new ones.... Technology is slowing coming lol

My exbrothernlaw works on FO only, on call 24/7/365, and is one of only 2-3 people who know how to connect and repair damaged FO within a 500-600 miles range of here, so he does do some driving. The job comes with all sorts of pirks, comp truck, free phones, laptop, etc etc.. He's a dick btw!

Originally Posted by '97ventureowner

Back when I bought my first computer in 2002, it came bundled with AOL. I had that during the free period and a little bit beyond,(They gave me more free time as there were so many issues with AOL and the then new Windows XP always clashing they felt sorry for me always calling their support :lol; ) Anyways, while I was with AOL, I was in their beta testing program and were one of the first to try out their new versions they were coming out with ( 8.0 then eventually 9.0 ) Whenever there was a new version to try out or a major update, I would have to download it, which could take up to a day to do because it was so large. I used to leave the computer on all night and hope the connection would stay and allow it to fully download. Even simple programs and updates took so long. God I do not miss those days.

Yeah downloading large files on dialup sucks! I know even some XP updates take forever. Thing that realy sucks for me is my ISP resets their servers every 12hrs so you get booted offline. Thank god for download programs! Torrents a great too! I downloaded a 2 GB movie a while back, Tokyo Gore Police, it only took a week and a half.

Have a great weekend everyone!