---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Woo-hooo! High speed internet! Last week I called a wireless internet provider, Clearwire, and asked them=20 for a signal test, as I am out of their advertised service area. A knowledge= able=20 techician came out and found a location for the modem in my second-floor hom= e=20 office where the signal strength is way fine. Upload speed is advertised at=20 256k, download at up to 768k for $35/mo, and 256k/1.5meg (which I signed up=20 for) for $7 more. The first three months are even cheaper, if you sign up fo= r a=20 year (which I was glad to do). Pages now load almost instantly. A nine-meg file which I download every week= ,=20 which always took an hour to an hour:ten, now takes 49 seconds. Not as fast=20 as cable (7 secs) but after years of playing solitaire while pages loaded,=20 enough to make me squeal like a little girl.=20 I thank all of the responders to the "Mail-list weirdness" thread.=20 Bob Davis In a message dated 12/4/2005 6:20:39 AM Pacific Standard Time,=20 dporritt@mail.smu.edu writes: Bob: I have fixed wireless out in the country in East Texas. I get an average o= f=20 587 kbs download and 614 kbs upload. (I=E2=80=99ve run speed tests 165 time= s in the=20 past 4 months and those are the averages. Yes, I know that=E2=80=99s irrati= onal!) =20 Overall I=E2=80=98m very happy with the service. Actually there are two oth= er companies=20 covering this area so there are choices. I=E2=80=99d really recommend calli= ng one=20 and get them to run a test of signal strength rather than just guess by look= ing=20 at a map. So much depends on terrain and obstructions that a map of estimat= ed=20 signal strength won=E2=80=99t tell you much. My download speed is somewhat=20= faster=20 than the DSL we had before we moved, and the upload speed is MUCH faster. T= he=20 cost is only $39.95 a month and I save further by having a VOIP phone using=20 that internet connection and that only costs $14.99 a month. If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask me. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/bd/3b/19/f7/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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