Question for Pragestock attendies.

My personal phone got squat on Sprint. Lucky to get a bar outside. My work phone on AT&T was the same. Used your WiFi for communications.
 
Now they are just fucking with us. Saturday morning, Mrs. P and I had gone out to run some errands. When we turned up our road, I saw a red sign stuck to a telephone pole. It read:

"Frontier High Speed Internet is now available in your neighborhood. Call 1-877-whateverthenumberis for details."

So, we called the number, but eventually got a recording that said "Call back during our regular business hours of 8 am to 6 pm Monday through Friday."

But today, we were in Charleston where Frontier has an office at the mall. The guy looked on his computer. Apparently they have installed the switches or whatever is needed 1 mile up our road. We are 2 1/4 miles up our road. :mad:

Hopefully they'll actually keep going and get us done in the next month or two.

We're really gonna be screwed if they don't get to us by the end of the year because that's when Verizon is going to stop supporting our current device, and we'd have to sign a 2 year contract to get a new one. I'm not going to do that if there's a chance that we'll get access to a proper internet connection in 2013.
 
Hopefully they will get you taken care of. We are really happy with Frontiers service here.
 
Mine was working outside and in the house I was on the wifi. I have an iPhone through sprint. I'd hope that get the high speed there it would be for the best
 
They told Mrs. P today that they are going to quit expanding their wired network and start offering Hughes Net. That would fucking blow as Hughes Net is way more expensive, way slower, and still has data limits. :mad:
 
Prages said:
They told Mrs. P today that they are going to quit expanding their wired network and start offering Hughes Net. That would fucking blow as Hughes Net is way more expensive, way slower, and still has data limits. :mad:
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Boo, that does suck.
 
Prages said:
They told Mrs. P today that they are going to quit expanding their wired network and start offering Hughes Net. That would fucking blow as Hughes Net is way more expensive, way slower, and still has data limits. :mad:
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Well that just fucking blows
 
Well, he didn't say quit,. he just said it was probably going to be a long time to get to their customers, so they decided that Hughes Net was the best way to service their more rural customers in the meantime.
 
Yep that was the exact line the guy was selling me. Hughes Net was going to open up the world for us.
 
Gary Blanchard said:
I have Hughes Net; no DSL or cable at my place. All I can say is, it beats dialup. :annoyed:
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What we've got now beats dialup too, but it's twice as expensive as a hard wired connection, and not even 1/2 as fast. :mad: I've looked into Hughesnet, and it's even more expensive that what we have now.

I'd be open to satellite if the price were right and the data limits were higher, but it isn't and they aren't.
 
Satellite sucks from a bandwidth perspective - especially Hughes Net. They are just using that as an excuse to not have to invest in any further infrastructure, yet 'satisfy' the state and federal governments push to service more rural areas. You are getting serviced all right....
 
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