On Sep 16, 1:46?pm, Blinky the Shark <no.s...@box.invalid> wrote:
> Dee Dee wrote:
>
> > "Blinky the Shark" <no.s...@box.invalid> wrote in message
> >news:slrnfeq3eo.s8d.no.spam@thurston.blinkynet.net...
> >> Omelet wrote:
>
> >>> Please send more snow pics! I love them. We spent a couple of Winters in
> >>> Colorado. Just enough to make me hate deep snow (due to having had to
> >>> shovel tons of it) but it's still pretty.
>
> >>http://blinkynet.net/stuff/more_flurries_expected.jpg
>
> >> --
> >> Blinky RLU 297263
>
> > Your car is worse than mine -- It's there in the forefront of this picture
>
> Not me; not my car. Something a Canuckistanian friend sent me; I think
> the location was Newfoundland.
>
> >http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=539nevo&s=1
>
> I don't do sites like that. They have so many irrelvant images on the
> page that it takes longer to download than my patience is good for. If
> you ever get that up somewhere efficient (as my snow photo above - simply
> the image), let me know.
>
> > We have to walk 1000' to the country road to our mailbox; and hopefully it's
> > plowed within a couple of days.
>
> Holy crap. Not much choice of ISPs, either, I'll bet. :)

What do you mean by choice of ISPs... all you need is dial up and you
can choose any ISPs out there.

The length of one's driveway has nothing whatsoever to do with choice
of ISPs... where I live it's very rural and most people have fairly
long driveways and yet all that's needed is dial up we have a choice
of a high speed line with the local cable company, Verizon, or a few
different dish companys. I used cable, in fact I still do for TV, and
I considered a dish, but now I use Verizon DSL. Naturally with any
high speed line one can choose any ISP.

In some suburban and even urban areas there are fewer choices... in
many densely populated areas the dish won't work, and often there is
only the phone line because cable may offer only TV. When I first
moved here a short time ago there was cable but they only had TV and
verizon only offered dial up. I tried the cable high speed net
connection when it first came out but it wasn't very reliable so when
verizon upgraded I switched to their DSL. Now I'm waiting for Verizon
FiOS, should be here shortly, the new poles are already in on the
road.


Sheldon