Saturday
24May2008
AN INTERRUPTION TO NORMAL SUPPLY!
Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 11:11AM
Hi all. Just to say that I have been off-air for the past 24 hours or so thanks to my broadband provider - BT - helpfully suspending my acccount! This was entirely their error, as has been pointed out to them - forcefully - by yours truly this morning. I am now back on-line and you will hear more from me later but it is SO frustrating when an internet provider makes a fundamental error like this but you, the customer, ends up paying for their incompetence! So, how have y'all been...?
in ATW
ATW 
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Reader Comments (9)
Y'all? You are from Texas.
The secret is out. David is actually blogging away from his Texas Hill Country ranch.
Dang, thar goes my secret....
nice Ranch Daphne,
David your supposed to sign the check when you pay the bill.....
Curious, what technology is used there? I used to have so-called broadband from the local phone company, which used DSL technology, and boy was it bad. It got progressively worse over the period of over two years, until the maximum speed you could count on would be 300 kbits/sec download.
I know that some people have good results from DSL, but everyone around here had the worst experience.
About two and a half years ago, switched to the service offered by the Cable TV company, and it hasn't been down a day since. Speed is about 9500 kbits/sec, which is not impressive in many countries, but which is good for the US.
High speed wireless through att/dish network Phantom. I don't know what the speed is but I zoom through everything super fast. I've never had any problems with service going down.
Daphne
Are you in a rural area?
I looked into internet service from my satellite tv service (Directv ) but it's pricy.
cable don't know the speed but it doesn't go down
In general, I think cable is the best and most reliable option for US users.
But a lot of our European and Asian buddies have access to services that are vastly faster than the services most US customers have access to