All the talk of FIOS.......makes me weep for our lousy internet connection we have to suffer using. Dial-up, although DLS is supposed to be installed sometime in the next few weeks. Thank God for small favors.........we've been promised that for over a year, now maybe it'll happen. But it's slow 256K up/1.5 down.
Interestingly, while we patiently wait for the DSL to be connected, a four man crew has been burying orange plastic pipe down our road the last two weeks. The pipe is rather large in diameter, and with all the electrical outages around here, we all in the neighborhood figured they were burying the elect. lines.
Now, you've got to understand where we live......we're at least 15 miles from any town....very country and we like it. Private, quiet, lots of land. We're a mile down a dirt road and were the third family to move into this area 11 years ago. Now there are 43 families in the 2.5 miles of our road. But we've all got a minimum of 2.5 acres each.....some of us have more.
So we never expect anything technologically advanced, other than DirecTV, to ever end up out here. Hell, we've heard we're going to have our road paved for these same 11 years.....and it's still packed clay/dirt. C'est la vie.
But, back to the orange pipe. They were putting it in in fromt of my house today. I go out and talk with the guys. It's fiber optic phone lines....not elect. Guy tells me they plan to have all our houses connected optically within 6 months.......including internet and then TV service.
Our telephone company that services us is a rural telephone co-op, which means they're typically underfunded, understaffed, and provide just basic service. But something must have happened in its upper management because of a lot of stuff bieng upgraded and installed. The guy tells me that the DSL, which will be phased out, is about to get a speed bump up to 6 down. And when the FIOS is hooked up.....good gawd!
So, even down in SE GA, we are finally progressing in some areas.
Now if we could only get rid of the gnats and drop the humidity below 90% during the summer.........
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