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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on December 07, 2003, 10:24 AM:
And I don't have a clue as to why?
I contacted the host and the email was returned twice, so I guess their mail box was full? Guess these hitech computer operations can't handle a little snow storm?
Oh well, we back, and I don't think we lost anything? So, what's on your mind, this morning?
Good hunting. LB
Posted by bucksnort (Member # 202) on December 07, 2003, 10:31 AM:
Leonard, I have been meaning to tell you for a long time now, but I get up about 4:30 every morning. It seems at that time of the morning, your board is always down - maybe it is on my end, who knows?
I am wondering if they don't have some kind of timer on your host to save bandwidth? Heck, I don't know, but just passing that on.
Take care.
"Buckwheat"
Posted by Tim Behle (Member # 209) on December 08, 2003, 01:39 PM:
Anyone know of a good ISP in my area?
I tried to upgrade Netscape for my wife last Thursday. My connection got dropped so many times that the 1:20 download took close to four hours. Then the files were corrupted.
I worked on it until bed time, then got up early and left to spend the day at a wrestling tournament with my Son.
While I was gone, my wife, who didn't know anything about the corrupted files, kept trying to use it. The corruption spread to my hard drive.
By the time I got home, not only was my hard drive shot, the my ISP did an "upgrade" They disconnected the only working dial up number and provided us with three other numbers that don't connect to anything but an Operator, telling me to hang up and try again.
They even gave their Tech help people the weekend off.
But I was the first one the Tech help people spoke to when they came in at 5 AM this morning.
Posted by Norm (Member # 240) on December 08, 2003, 04:02 PM:
Tim, sorry to hear with the challenges of the ISP and Netscape.
I recently went to a cable provider, so glad I did.
AOL was ok years ago when I had it.
Prior to the Cable, I had first global networks as a provider.
I haven't heard much on Satellite providers but it may be worth a check;
Good luck
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on December 08, 2003, 04:28 PM:
Well, this is something that bugs me. You know how the cell phone people have been jacking us around about how it's totally impossible to switch carriers, and keep the same number, that all your friends and business contacts are familiar with? Turns out that it isn't unfeasable, at all, as soon as a judge orders them to start doing it.
This will allow many people to switch their home phone number to their cell phone, etc. And switch to a different phone company, when they find a better deal, and not lose their published number.
That's the main reason why I have always kept aol as my ISP. Everybody already knows my e-mail address, and I don't want to lose anyone. So, I have kept aol for years, in spite of many reasons not to. I just wish I could transfer the address, somehow? But I can't picture MSN or earthlink, allowing me to keep an e-mail address that ends in "aol".
Scrach that brilliant idea. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Good hunting. LB
Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on December 08, 2003, 05:16 PM:
Leonard,
On the topic of being able to change your home number to your cell and all the benefits that come with it, I have a few concerns that keep me from doing that very thing. First, the majority of my calls using my cell are between me and home or vice versa. I haven't yet figured out how I would communicate when whichever one of my wfe or I were away from home base. Some might say that the idea is to eliminate the home phone and use only the cell. I've spent most of two decades either in the fire service or emergency medicine and helped set up an enhanced 911 service. That service is now one of the state of the art facilities in the country with every whistle and bell on the market today installed somewhere. My brother is the Director of 911 Emergency Communications for our county and he's seen the bad side of this idea. Even though we have the equipment and software to identify the location of most 911 calls made from cellular phones via GPS technology, that system is still without its gremlins. Accuracy, as far as pinpointing the location from which the originating call is being made, is poor and unreliable at best. Within the past year, we received a 911 call via a cell phone from a person who had actually cancelled their landline in favor of cell only. All they could say was "I need help", then there was nothing but air. Sheriff's deputies, State Troopers, numerous rural fire departments, and four ambulances were scrambled in different directions, not to mention the local authorities in six different towns and cities, all with instructions to proceed with lights and sirens on in hopes that dispatchers would be able to pick up a siren in the background on the phone and, through the process of elimination, localize the source of the call somewhere within over 750 square miles of rural and semi-rural country. Two different railroad carriers were contacted and requested that their engineers lay on their horns which they were kind enough to do. By the grace of God, we were able to pinpoint and locate the caller after just over two hours of "searching" by literally dozens and dozens of emergency responders and saved a life. Eliminating landline phones sounds good in theroy, but it send chills up the spine of every paramedic in the country knowing that the system just doesn't work that well yet. Most people are not aware of this "glitch" in the system until they or someone they care about finds out the hard way. Just something to ponder.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on December 08, 2003, 06:05 PM:
You make a compelling argument, Lance. Got my vote. LB
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