Misfitmorgan's Journal - That Summer Dust

[greybeard]

Verizon - Website to hard to navigate..it keeps trying to take me to fios or DSL instead of wireless internet...i assume a lot of money lol.

It's what we have. Runs off one of these:

Signal comes off a cell tower. Speed depends how close to the tower you are and how many trees are between you and the tower. Unfortunately for me, the National Forest surrounding me doesn't give a crap about what kind of signal I get..
They do have an unlimited data plan now, that IMO, is fairly reasonable.

 

[misfitmorgan]

I was trying to find the jetpack for verizon but the stupid website just kept taking me to fios Or bundle with cell phone service.

 

[misfitmorgan]

My cable company says it is 10k per 1/2 mile to run the lines but since it is 2-2.5 miles we can get a break on the cost and if i get enough people to do it we can split the cost between all....and if i get a lot of people to do it we will only have to pay $35 each for install into each home and they will cover the cables.

 

[Baymule]

We are only 9 miles from Lindale, 8 miles from Van and 9 miles to Mineola. It's not like we are on the butt end of nowhere. But NO internet or TV. Separate satellites for each, separate bills, mo' money, mo' money, mo' money. But we love living here and wouldn't move closer to town for internet or TV.

This place looks great and maybe you can hook up to the satellites and enjoy that gorgeous view. AT&T bought out Direct TV, so possibly you could get Direct TV and internet both. We have Direct TV, but of course AT&T doesn't offer internet here. I sat out here for 9 months with no internet except for my phone before getting Hughes Net. By that time, sketchy internet service looked like Manna from Heaven. When the weather is bad, no TV, no internet. And now that my phone has latched onto my internet, I can't get anything on it either in bad weather. Really? You mean I can't watch the tornado bearing down on me and just have to sit here in the dark wondering?

 

[babsbag]

Satellite TV for us, nothing else where I live and I am 10 miles from the city that has it all. For internet I am fortunate to live on the top of a mountain and can get a local Wi-fi for about $60 a month. Not the fastest...10MB...but no data cap. We did the AT&T hotspot and ate through data at an alarming rate and we don't watch videos online. I used 10GB one night just trying to update my iPhone. Had internet with Clearwire when we first moved here but Sprint bought them and stopped supporting the Wi-Fi. No DSL or cable out here.

 

[Latestarter]

Wow... so it's not just me... I bought a weather radio specifically for weather warnings. despite having several severe thunderstorm and a tornado warning here, the damned thing has never gone off and warned me... What was the point is buying the danged thing? I tuned it to the proper channels and checked it multiple times, even during warnings. so it has become a dust collector. My phone signal is not very strong so the NOAA radar site loads slow. If there's a storm, I can't use the computer (Excede) and my TV service goes out as well (DirecTV) as both are satellite dishes.

 

[Bruce]

At&T - 1TB/month add 50GB for $10 up to max of $100 extra dollars a month, 50 down ? up $40/month for 12 months

That does sound pretty reasonable since you are currently paying $65/month. Do you happen to already have AT&T cell phones?

My current hi speed provider that is a small local company replied back and said if i can get other people interested and provide them an easement on the road frontage, they will run the cable over to that place. That's rather exciting.

If you get the house, time to knock on every door between the end of the line as it is now and your new place, plus a bunch more down the road just in case. Assuming most of these people already have internet, I bet they would be ecstatic to switch to high speed cable, no limits. $35 is pretty cheap hookup.

 

[misfitmorgan]

I would definitely go with the AT&T 1TB is pretty reasonable plus we each have 10GB data on our phones we can use. I would rather have no cap and high speed but hey it is what it is.

This internet company normally does free hook-up to the house. I plan on going on a huge internet campaign it is silly they have high speed internet 2 miles away but no service here...for the area yo would think more lines the better. The really bad part is 90% of people in the area have no idea you can get high speed internet out there so the growth is very slow.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Well, at least it is 2 miles away....here it is just 1/2 mile up the road and stops. There are only 3 total houses on this stretch beyond where they ended running the cable and then there is a far distance to the next house. We really don't use the net enough to justify the expense, so we just use the phones. Tho, if there were work to do on it, then I would probably be more upset about it as you are, but this is most of my internet use here on this site....Joyce uses FB and so it really isn't a big deal with us.

 

[misfitmorgan]

I'm sure it all completely depends on what one is doing online on what you can get by with or not. We had no internet until we moved to the farm because the two places before were not in service areas. No internet, no tv....just our cell phones.

So the bank just called and let me know i have my pre-approval for that new place up to the full asking price. So waiting for the realtor to open up so he can get us an appointment to look at it.

Meanwhile DH walked around on the property yesterday and looked at the big barn...he got some pics but didnt wander to much because he didnt wanna linger. Near as he can guess so far without to much intrusion the big barn is actually 2 stories. Here are a couple pics.

That is just the upstairs/hayloft area we believe. A driveway goes down to it and it has double doors on both sides so you can drive through the narrow way of the barn.