What things bother you the most?

bmwracer wrote:
I think Verizon is the only game in town. :sweat:

And they own/control the actual phone lines, so.........

Is Verizon that bad? (I'm clueless when it comes to stuff like this)

cori wrote:Is Verizon that bad? (I'm clueless when it comes to stuff like this)

Apparently for my house: the connection has been dropping out for long periods of time on various days the past several weeks... :sweat:

I hate calling tech support, 'cause they have you go through all the motions just to determine if it's a user error or a hardware failure... And I know it's neither. :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
Apparently for my house: the connection has been dropping out for long periods of time on various days the past several weeks... :sweat:

I hate calling tech support, 'cause they have you go through all the motions just to determine if it's a user error or a hardware failure... And I know it's neither. :sweat:

So it hasn't been bad until these past several weeks? That must be so frustrating! I wonder what's going on and if it can be fixed. And I wonder why there aren't more ISPs around your area. It's not like you live in some out-of-the way place...or do you?

And I had no idea that Verizon was an ISP too. I thought they only did cellphone services.

cori wrote:So it hasn't been bad until these past several weeks? That must be so frustrating! I wonder what's going on and if it can be fixed. And I wonder why there aren't more ISPs around your area. It's not like you live in some out-of-the way place...or do you?

I don't.

Not sure if my neighbors are having the same problems... They might be getting their internet via cable.

And I had no idea that Verizon was an ISP too. I thought they only did cellphone services.

Nope, they provide my hard (phone) line, and offer digital cable service along with the cellphone stuff... But I don't have the latter two, 'cause I'm cheap.

I use T-Mobile for my cell. :)

bmwracer wrote:I don't.

Not sure if my neighbors are having the same problems... They might be getting their internet via cable.

Too bad you can't ask someone. I have cable internet myself. Not sure if it's better than DSL, but it works ok.

Nope, they provide my hard (phone) line, and offer digital cable service along with the cellphone stuff... But I don't have the latter two, 'cause I'm cheap.

I use T-Mobile for my cell. :)

Cool, I learned something new.

And if you had Verizon for your cell, I would've told you to call me since it's free. J/k :beaten:

cori wrote:And if you had Verizon for your cell, I would've told you to call me since it's free. J/k :beaten:

It's all "free" until you exceed your alloted minutes per month. :beaten:

Sounds like here.

All of the copper phone line here is government-owned: The Government telco is Telstra, and since they own the copper lines, every other ISP has to rent them when someone signs up to a non-Telstra ISP. But they have to do it at very cheap rates. So a lot of ISP's have much better deals than Telstra, since they have lower overheads.
Cable here is not very widespread, so most places outside capital cities can't get it and are stuck with ADSL.

bmwracer wrote:
It's all "free" until you exceed your alloted minutes per month. :beaten:

I thought it was free for both people if they both had Verizon. At least, that's what I was told. :grumble:

Just some clarification: Basically in California there are 2 phone companies, Verizon and ATT. Each has their own areas which was determined by the FCC back in the 1980's when they broke up Bell Telephone (which was essentially a monopoly and controlled everything) I live in an ATT area, Racer lives in a Verizon area. He can't get his phone service thru ATT even if he wanted to, and I can't go to Verizon. [/list:u]As far as internet stuff goes, the only real options are either going thru your local phone company or cable. The phone companies service is much cheaper than cable, but, cable is usually a lot faster although with cable, as more people in your area go online that will slow your speed down. Yes, there are other providers (Earthlink, DSLXtreme, etc.) but they use the same phone line that you have thru the phone company, so if your service sucked with the phone company, if would probably suck with them as well.

cori wrote:I'm such an idiot. I sent some dramas to wynter, but didn't use her current address. :banghead: That's what I get for being so damn spacy.

No worries! It'll work out eventually. :)

Wynter <--- doesn't stress, so neither should you. :patpat:

bmwracer wrote:
We do our best. :victory:

I think she's just talking about me.
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On Topic: So I was all excited that I had woken up at 11am... only to realize that the time changed and it's really 10am. So much for sleeping in. :shamefulcry:

gaijinmark wrote:Just some clarification: Basically in California there are 2 phone companies, Verizon and ATT. Each has their own areas which was determined by the FCC back in the 1980's when they broke up Bell Telephone (which was essentially a monopoly and controlled everything) I live in an ATT area, Racer lives in a Verizon area. He can't get his phone service thru ATT even if he wanted to, and I can't go to Verizon. [/list:u]As far as internet stuff goes, the only real options are either going thru your local phone company or cable. The phone companies service is much cheaper than cable, but, cable is usually a lot faster although with cable, as more people in your area go online that will slow your speed down. Yes, there are other providers (Earthlink, DSLXtreme, etc.) but they use the same phone line that you have thru the phone company, so if your service sucked with the phone company, if would probably suck with them as well.

Yup.

I was hoping you'd interject, G-Mark. :thumbsup:

cori wrote:

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bmwracer wrote:
I don't.

Not sure if my neighbors are having the same problems... They might be getting their internet via cable.


Too bad you can't ask someone. I have cable internet myself. Not sure if it's better than DSL, but it works ok.

I'm in the northern part of Los Angeles. San Fernando Valley.
I've had Verizon DSL (the lowest price one) for 2 years now. Not one single down day though sometimes a bit slow. Now I'm trying to upgrade to their internet special 3 mbps for $28 a month. What a joke. The small writing of not available in all areas I think means not available in any area. The cheapest upgrade they have is $32 a month for the 3 mbps offer. I still will probably upgrade as I'm beginning to feel like I'm on dial up with only 768 KBPS. :grumble:

ralphm1999 wrote:
I'm beginning to feel like I'm on dial up with only 768 KBPS. :grumble:

Amazing how quickly you get used to speed. Up until earlier this year, I was on 512kb/s. Now my home connection is 1.5mb/s, and even that seems slow compared to 24mb/s at work :banghead:

Anime Dad wrote:Amazing how quickly you get used to speed. Up until earlier this year, I was on 512kb/s. Now my home connection is 1.5mb/s, and even that seems slow compared to 24mb/s at work :banghead:

I'm more than satisfied with 768kbps, especially since it's faster than at work (unbelievable, but true :shakehead: ) and it's only $15/month.

Thanks for explaining about the ISP stuff, gaijinmark. Do you work for one of those companies or something? :hehe:

And crap! I'm so pi$$ed. My boss took off from work today and I forgot to bring my laptop!! I was planning to author some dramas to DVD or work on my site, but now I can't do anything productive and I'm going to be bored out of my freaking mind. I feel like doing this -->> :banghead:

bmwracer wrote:
I'm more than satisfied with 768kbps, especially since it's faster than at work (unbelievable, but true :shakehead: )

WTF??? faster than at work??? that's unheard of.... :crazy:

Anime Dad wrote:All of the copper phone line here is government-owned: The Government telco is Telstra, and since they own the copper lines, every other ISP has to rent them when someone signs up to a non-Telstra ISP...
Cable here is not very widespread, so most places outside capital cities can't get it and are stuck with ADSL.

Pretty much the same situation here, only that our telecom does not want to lease any copper lines to other ISPs, so people just started stretching LAN cables between buildings :hehe:.

boris wrote:
Pretty much the same situation here, only that our telecom does not want to lease any copper lines to other ISPs, so people just started stretching LAN cables between buildings :hehe:.

Over here we use soup cans attached by long straws.....the setup is almost as fast as fiber optic cable.

Tu_triky wrote:WTF??? faster than at work??? that's unheard of.... :crazy:

Welcome to my bizarro workplace. :sweat:

cori wrote:Thanks for explaining about the ISP stuff, gaijinmark. Do you work for one of those companies or something? :hehe:

You have visited the Talk Crap about Work thread, right? The answer is there....*whispers* and it's yes.

@boris: Some companies use carrier pigeons or smoke signals for internet connections. To save money, you know. :rofl: