[AJD] (OT):/ phone troubles

[Troy Bogdan]

Our phone company is ALLTEL, and although most other people consider us to 
be out in the boonies, I think we are close enough to the hard road that we 
should have some high speed internet options, but NONE exist that I know of. 
Just dial-up.  ALLTEL is horrible for customer service on the phone.  When I 
had my phone connected for the first time two years ago (Our house was built 
in the 1880s and never had a phone till 2004) they were a pain in the butt! 
They blew off three appointments (due to more important emergies . . .yeah 
right) and then left the phone cables lying on the ground for several 
months, before I called and complained several times that they needed to be 
buried.  I had a hard time driving the tractor around those wires to get to 
my fields, and almost chopped them in half with the Farmall's belly mower on 
more than one occasion.

Happy 2006 everybody,   Sincerely  Troy


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DAVID BRUCE" <davidbruce at yadtel.net>
To: <antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 7:27 AM
Subject: Re: [AJD] RE:/ now Verizon troubles


> Dean,
> I've been very fortunate on the internet front.  Living in the boonies I'm
> sure I wouldn't have the DSL connection if I was in the Bellsouth service
> area.  There is cable available - "up on the hard road" (sort of a
> leftover saying from the years when the county road to my drive was gravel
> - it was finally paved in 2002).
> All in all, I've been lucky with the whole telephone thing.
> David
> NW NC
>
>> David:
>>
>> As of a couple hours ago we finally are back up and running but not
>> without going through 4 hours of no phone service at all. We did have
>> voice but were not able to make a dial up internet connection to any
>> ISP. Then we lost everything. I guess they had to reboot!  :-)  Or turn
>> on the switch.  Doubled my net worth today because they now owe me $25
>> for failing to get the service back up within 48 hours of my trouble
>> call.
>>
>> I have been with the same two ISP's for way over 5 years. And have been
>> generally happy with both until recently. ATT was ok before but since
>> their merger with SBC things are starting to deteriorate. Probably going
>> to have to make a change but I sure know it won't be Verizon.  Thinking
>> about going to a Sprint cell phone Data Line Internet connection, in
>> order to get something higher than 56K dial up which is all that is
>> available here out in the boonies. But...  We happen to be in a real
>> fringe area for cell phone reception so that may not work either. Have
>> tried cell service twice with two different providers and missed so many
>> calls gave up on both. Kind of frustrating. One of the downsides of
>> living out in the country in the foothills of the Cascade Mountain
>> range.
>>
>> Dean A. Van Peursem
>> Snohomish, WA 98290
>>
>> Forbidden fruits create many jams!
>>
>> www.deerelegacy.com
>>
>> http://members.cox.net/classicweb/email.htm
>
>
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