Cardhu, some things are easy to do. The MacAfee anti-virus guru is my son-in-law and the other IT professional is my daughter. The kids love to make a few hundred dollars putting together computer systems. He does it all the time. I simply went over to the Apple store and wrote down the specifications of a low-end computer, and he cheerily went and bought all the parts, mostly on sale, at a PC parts store by the University. He brought over a beautiful, little black box and plugged it into the dual monitors, and it all came up. We have 10 Mbps optical fiber to the house, so we can suck down a full length feature movie in about five minutes. We have about a terabyte of storage on line here. I reciprocated the favor by buying her Beamer a new set of tires, new brakes, some front-end work and an alignment, so we all went out to lunch today to celebrate.
Wow Doggy – you have chasten me and brought on a great depression. - “10mbps optical fiber to the house.” In my dreams - in this little place I am limited to 1mbps and a promise of 3mbps in April, which I will believe when it happens. The drawbacks of living in the boonies.
Thank goodness I am not into downloading movies. But what makes it even worse, my brother in law spend two hours a day stealing my wireless connection to talk via Skype to my daughter in Los Angles so my speed drops significantly at that time.
They did a survey along my Avenue for cable but did not get enough subscribers to make it worth while for them to install it – the apartments here are now too expensive for the locals so we have absentee owners who are not interested in year-round cable.
So I will just muddle through with my pathetic ADSL. But I do have dual Monitors :)
Wow Doggy – you have chasten me and brought on a great depression. - “10mbps optical fiber to the house.” In my dreams - in this little place I am limited to 1mbps and a promise of 3mbps in April, which I will believe when it happens. The drawbacks of living in the boonies.
Thank goodness I am not into downloading movies. But what makes it even worse, my brother in law spend two hours a day stealing my wireless connection to talk via Skype to my daughter in Los Angles so my speed drops significantly at that time.
They did a survey along my Avenue for cable but did not get enough subscribers to make it worth while for them to install it – the apartments here are now too expensive for the locals so we have absentee owners who are not interested in year-round cable.
So I will just muddle through with my pathetic ADSL. But I do have dual Monitors :)