Comments on: The Reality of Dial-Up Over a Phone Line That Has Been Left to Deterioriate for 36 Years http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/the-reality-of-dial-up-over-a-phone-line-that-has-been-left-to-deterioriate-for-36-years/ About finding balance in your life, connecting with who you are, and creating a lifestyle where you wake up each morning eagerly anticipating the day ahead. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:29:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joni http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/the-reality-of-dial-up-over-a-phone-line-that-has-been-left-to-deterioriate-for-36-years/#comment-21255 Joni http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/?p=637#comment-21255 I also thought I was reading my own phone horror story - so much the same. I still have a bad phone line but now for Internet I have Hughes net satellite, which is not great or cheap either. Never can tell when I will have Internet service or what speed it will be. I do still like living in the country, but phone and Internet service is madding and I have to live off my Internet business. Technology keeps getting better - except for people out in the country it seems. I also thought I was reading my own phone horror story – so much the same. I still have a bad phone line but now for Internet I have Hughes net satellite, which is not great or cheap either. Never can tell when I will have Internet service or what speed it will be. I do still like living in the country, but phone and Internet service is madding and I have to live off my Internet business. Technology keeps getting better – except for people out in the country it seems.

]]> By: debby http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/the-reality-of-dial-up-over-a-phone-line-that-has-been-left-to-deterioriate-for-36-years/#comment-20478 debby http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/?p=637#comment-20478 I've lived with poor phone service and no cell coverage. I'm at least 10 miles away from a pay phone. I finally got the number of the goverment oversight agency (don't remember if it was state or federal). The problem was resolved in 24 hours. Not kidding. They reacted best to the phrases "remote area" and "safety concerns". I’ve lived with poor phone service and no cell coverage. I’m at least 10 miles away from a pay phone. I finally got the number of the goverment oversight agency (don’t remember if it was state or federal). The problem was resolved in 24 hours. Not kidding. They reacted best to the phrases “remote area” and “safety concerns”.

]]> By: Debbie http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/the-reality-of-dial-up-over-a-phone-line-that-has-been-left-to-deterioriate-for-36-years/#comment-20441 Debbie http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/?p=637#comment-20441 I could swear you were telling our story here. We live out in the country in a 90 year old farmhouse and have had to call our telephone company numerous times about the same issues. We have gone up to a week at a time with no phone. We keep getting that its the mice getting into the box. I don't care... just want them to fix it! Debbie I could swear you were telling our story here. We live out in the country in a 90 year old farmhouse and have had to call our telephone company numerous times about the same issues. We have gone up to a week at a time with no phone. We keep getting that its the mice getting into the box. I don’t care… just want them to fix it!

Debbie

]]> By: Jon in France http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/the-reality-of-dial-up-over-a-phone-line-that-has-been-left-to-deterioriate-for-36-years/#comment-20432 Jon in France http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/?p=637#comment-20432 You have my sympathy. Here in France we have one single 'phone company who can play with the wires, and they can be...slow. Plus we live physically at the end of the line and it is a recurrant problem. Every couple of years we have them out because the line is poor, and every time we are told that if the problem is in our house then we have to pay, but every time it is the line which has chaffed against the post at the end of the lane. A bit of duct tape would fix the problem for good, but that is not prescribed equipment! You have my sympathy. Here in France we have one single ‘phone company who can play with the wires, and they can be…slow. Plus we live physically at the end of the line and it is a recurrant problem.

Every couple of years we have them out because the line is poor, and every time we are told that if the problem is in our house then we have to pay, but every time it is the line which has chaffed against the post at the end of the lane.

A bit of duct tape would fix the problem for good, but that is not prescribed equipment!

]]> By: Amy http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/the-reality-of-dial-up-over-a-phone-line-that-has-been-left-to-deterioriate-for-36-years/#comment-20422 Amy http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/?p=637#comment-20422 I was on dial up for a long time after moving to the country. We finally got rid of the land line entirely and put that money toward satellite internet. (we do get mobile service, so it is a viable option for us) But boy do I remember how hard it was to do much on the internet at even 56k. I hope something gets resolved for you very soon! Blessings! Amy I was on dial up for a long time after moving to the country. We finally got rid of the land line entirely and put that money toward satellite internet. (we do get mobile service, so it is a viable option for us)

But boy do I remember how hard it was to do much on the internet at even 56k. I hope something gets resolved for you very soon!
Blessings!
Amy

]]> By: Jo http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/the-reality-of-dial-up-over-a-phone-line-that-has-been-left-to-deterioriate-for-36-years/#comment-20411 Jo http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/?p=637#comment-20411 Shirley, you must have the patience of a saint. If it were me I would get a lawyer and sue them. A telephone line is a life line. Shirley, you must have the patience of a saint. If it were me I would get a lawyer and sue them.
A telephone line is a life line.

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