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Thread: Internet woes
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06-13-2010, 08:15 PM #16
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Oh my, good luck. I have dial-up and it's definiltey worth it to find something else if you can. There is no DSL where I live even though people less than a mile away have it. I can't do satellite because I live in the forest. And cable internet is $65/month and I just can't justify that expense. So I pay $10/month for dial-up and I can barely function online. But here I am on TE, so it works well enough to do a few things. I hope you can figure something out.
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06-13-2010, 09:30 PM #17
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06-17-2010, 11:26 AM #18
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That Communications Workers of America thing is really interesting.
I want to say thanks to everyone for all the feedback. I read it a while ago, but hadn't had a chance to respond. (Partly because I only have internet at work...)
AT&T (dsl) said the only option was dial-up. And we had been concerned that the higher speed dsl wouldn't be available to us...
I talked directly to the CableOne tech. I asked him what our options were, regardless of cost. He came out again and gave us an estimate.
The number is very high, but we are elated that there is at least a possibility. CableOne will probably pay half themselves.
I know some of you balk at spending $60 or more a month for high speed internet, but my husband just graduated in Computer Science. That makes it a high priority. Not that he can't have a career without internet at home, but it'll make things much more difficult than they need to be. On the other hand I'd feel better if he had a job in hand.
That's the monthly price (which is kind of high around here). As far as the initial start up, we considered another place in town that had internet capability and was $200/mth MORE in rent, and it was smaller. In less than a year, the initial start-up for getting cable at our house would equal the amount we would have paid in higher rent at that other place. Since we plan to stay in this house 3 to 4 years, it is worth it. The landlord might be willing to pay part of it. We haven't asked yet.
The trick is to pull together the initial start-up. Do we count this as an emergency and dip into our emergency fund?
