[AT] Quiet list(now dialup)

[Ralph Goff]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Francis Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Quiet list


>> errr... you're still on dialup?  With all those different
>> lists you manage?  Sounds painful.
.
> The board looks good if you have high-speed but too many pages on dial-up.
> They have DSL over on the next road and keep promising it here but it
> hasn't happened yet. Son Scott went with a dish thingy (Wild Blue?) but is
> unhappy with it. Cost about $50 a month but is unstable and he says that 
> an
> inch of snow bombs it out. Another neighbor went with Verizon wireless
> (4G?) Which cost him about $60 a month and he is very happy with it. I
> guess I will bite the bullet and try that.
> "farmer"

The new discussion board works fine on my dial up at 38.6k most of the time. 
The only time it is a bit slow is if someone posts a huge picture or several 
of them at once. Then it  takes a bit but stiill not bad. All the pictures I 
post are done through dial up which is why I keep them a reasonable size.
About the biggest limitatiions I have are for video. Youtube video links are 
usually wasted on my as it does take what seems like forever to transfer 
video. I did spend an hour and a half uploading a few seconds of video a 
while back. Waay too slow to do much more of that.
High speed is available here as I am in sight of the new sasktel tower but 
the initial cost of the equipment plus $55 a month is a bit much for me to 
justify right now.

Ralph in Sask.