non entry to win a dish 222 reciver

[digitalartifact]

Even though I feel more then qualified to enter the win a 222... I do not have high speed internet at home (or low speed for that matter as I can not reliably get 28.8Kbps)... thus joining you in chat at 6ish tonight to see if I won and respond in the 60 second time frame would not be piratical for me...

so who ever wins this nice receiver... please accept my early congratulations

 

[jburnham]

Sailing the seven seas?

Who in this country, besides the economically disadvantaged, doesn't have at least a 56K connection?

Even though I feel more then qualified to enter the win a 222... I do not have high speed internet at home (or low speed for that matter as I can not reliably get 28.8Kbps)... thus joining you in chat at 6ish tonight to see if I won and respond in the 60 second time frame would not be piratical for me...

so who ever wins this nice receiver... please accept my early congratulations

 

[JAG72]

Who in this country, besides the economically disadvantaged, doesn't have at least a 56K connection?

More people than you realize don't have at least 56K. When I had dial up the best I could ever get was 24K.

 

[peterson40]

Who in this country, besides the economically disadvantaged, doesn't have at least a 56K connection?

I think alot of people who are out of a Cable or DSL area have this problem. I know many people who have at 56K Connection but can only connect around 28.8 due to line noise.

 

[rockymtnhigh]

When I was in Vermont visiting in-laws, they had 56K, but it usually was just 42k.

And SatelliteGuys was painfully slow on it.

 

[lakebum431]

When I was in Vermont visiting in-laws, they had 56K, but it usually was just 42k.

And SatelliteGuys was painfully slow on it.

Even in PDA mode? When I view Satelliteguys from my Blackberry I always use PDA mode and I'm guessing that a 56k modem is similar speed to the Verizon Blackberry speed.

 

[retiredTech]

Rural Areas often have outdated phone company lines (& old analog processing connecting hardware). DSL or Cable is NOT available.
I pay for 56k dail-up but because of the outdated phone system here,
the best speed I ever get is 26.4k (Less than half speed).

And wild blue/huges is too expensive for my meager retirement funds.

 

[digitalartifact]

lol

My reliable internet options:
1) Wild Blue
2) huges

AT&T is my house provider of dial out service... even though my phone works well I am way to far away from the Switch to receive any DSL... I have spent a few bucks attempting to get even 28.8 to work... to much static on the line (at least its inaudibly static).

 

[dfergie]

I have wireless interenet and have had for over 2 years, its slower than advertised but beats the heck out of the best 42k I was getting with dial-up there is cable out here, (thanks to a forward thinking man who put in a rural cable system then sold out)but I do not know if cable internet is available here or not... biased against cable since they were the enemy in the C-Band days.

 

[Jim5506]

dfergie, what cable co do you have where you live. My father-in-law has US cable and has a cable modem with them.

 

[dfergie]

US Cable so it is probably available although the system out here is close to 20 years old... you can sign up to net only I believe...