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Why does my internet want me to kill myself in frustration?

Asked by electricsky (825points) March 10th, 2009
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So about two and a half months ago we upgraded from dial-up to a wireless internet card. Yay. Not really. At first we were unbelievably excited, till we hooked it up and it was slower than dial-up, because it was on RTT/1X. Then it went onto a DO signal, which made it a million times faster. Then back to RTT. Basically it switched back and forth and stayed on RTT 80% of the time, until we got an antenna for it. We hooked up the antenna on the roof and connected it to the internet card and it went on DO most of the time and all was well. Recently, though, its been randomly going on dormant, or going back to RTT, or simply not connecting for any real reason.

So has anyone else been massively disappointed by the switch to broadband and all the lovely little bugs it comes with?

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AlfredaPrufrock's avatar

Is there another ISP you can use? I get broadband through my cable provider, and use Airport Extreme as my wireless hub. It’s been pretty much plug-and-play for our three Macs. I had to do a little bit of reconfiguring (update from WEP to WPA2, which made things much faster and more secure) to add a Windows netbook into the wireless mix, but not a bit of problem.

I’m wondering about the antenna with broadband?

electricsky's avatar

@Alfreda: I don’t know. We get broadband through our cell phone company, Alltel (which, apparently doesn’t exist anymore since Verizon took it over), so it’s a little USB we stick in our computer.
The antenna connects to the card (barely – it falls out if you breathe on it too hard), then we string it outside and it connects to the antenna on the roof.

RandomMrdan's avatar

ohhh, you have an air card…those are…okay, but I wouldn’t consider it “high speed”. There isn’t much you can do about that, it’s all about where you are in reference to the Verizon Towers.

If there is a cable provider, or DSL, I’d give them a call, and cancel your current service if you aren’t locked into a contract yet.

AlfredaPrufrock's avatar

@electricsky, it sounds like you’re in Hooterville, and connecting through the Pixley Phone Company

electricsky's avatar

@cheebdragon: LOL. I’m pretty sure it works just as well.
@RandomMrdan: We don’t have cable or DSL out here. Yeah, it pretty much sucks living in the middle of nowhere.
@AlfredaPrufrock: Nice. That’s probably more high tech than this. ;)

nebule's avatar

because it is evil

patg7590's avatar

@AlfredaPrufrock love that show lol

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