The time has come when we finally have faster internet service.
We were driving in another part of the county over a week ago, when I spied a little sign low, near the ground, on the side of road. It announced DSL service, via our local phone company, being now available. Well, we’ve been told before that it’d not be coming to where we live. A few weeks before this, someone at our church, who lives near us, said he has DSL. Well since then I’d been after Frank to call the phone company and inquire. So, now that we saw the sign on the road-side, a phone call was directly made. Frank left a message to be called back.
We found out then that indeed DSL was available at our house. Hmmm. We had no way of knowing. We’d bugged the company in the past to find out stuff like this, but were told nothing was going to happen. Really. So it was the fluke of chatting with the person at church, and driving that way that day the other week, which led us to finding out that we can now get it afterall.
So, on Monday “Brown” drove up and dropped off a box. Our DSL modem. It’s been sitting waiting patiently for DSL to be active on the phone line. We were told a few different things about turn on dates, and finally it was settled that Friday, today, was the day, but it wouldn’t be until after 5pm “probably” since they were so busy with new accounts. So, Frank was on the phone, working out of the house — so this was a “business” call, and someone broke in and said “Mr. Meints?” and it ended up being our phone company, the service guy turning on DSL, he was waiting for the phone line to be dormant, and so he ended up breaking-through Frank’s phone call finally 🙂 So, nearly needless to say, Frank was fine to hang up for 10 minutes if it meant DSL was being turned on.
So then the fun of installation began. I’d run the program a few times in the past week, just to do it. So today, of course, with DSL right there, it wouldn’t install. Ugh. Finally it did. Then the fun began. Fast blazing internet on the desktop. Nothing on my laptop. Dead in the water on my laptop. I configured things right and left and up and down. So I’m then on the desktop reading HTML pages for help, and I heard the soft — da, dah — music of my laptop recieving email. Hmmm … yup, it’s working now. Made nearly no sense, but that’s how it is when you are networking with just two computers and ethernet cable, and new funky DSL modem installations.
For y’all still on dialup, I have pity for you. That was me just yesterday, even earlier this morning. It’s painful, but endurable. DSL is pure fun! Pages load fast. Pictures fast. Download 80mgs? No problemo. Snap your fingers, yawn a bit, get a cup of coffee, it’s nearly done, go outside and look at the trees blooming in the early Spring, come back in, and it’s done!
I’ve downloaded movie trailers today, that I could only dream about before.
Well, we are “always on” now. For real. Not just, on dialup for way too long, and tying up the phone line. I can now set my email to “check” for mail by itself. It’s a dream, but will be just “normal stuff” by tomorrow. Sorry to y’all dialup folk. I was one of you just awhile ago, knowing I was stuck as one. Turned out not to be so. Isn’t life funny?!!