Living in the Boonies

We’re not really in the boonies but it feels like it because we’ve had this house for 4 weeks and still don’t have internet or cable!  We could survive without cable, but internet?  No internet — not working out!

 

Going to the library or Starbucks or any other free WiFi hotspot to get online is not convenient.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful, but…  We have MiFi through Verizon and use it daily but we use up TOOOOO much bandwidth just checking email, banking and other daily “needs” for me to upload pictures, YouTube videos, ect. too.

 

Grrrrr.  Getting Charter out here to do what they need to do is proving to be a challenge.


I’m hopeful and doubtful at the same time.  Hopeful because I want it to happen.  Doubtful because we’ve heard and read countless stories with unhappy endings that all started out exactly like ours.

I’ll let you know how our’s ends as soon as it does.

Until we get our problem solved, I’m taking pictures and video – to share eventually.



For now, intermittent posts and Facebook updates from my phone are the best I can do.

 

In the mean time,  if you feel like tweeting:

#Charter please get internet to @sawdust_girl as quickly as possible!

 

Maybe that will help.

hahaha  ha

(you never know)  ; -)

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12 Comments

  2. Been there done that – took us 5 weeks. We actually got the MyFi but it didn’t work out because I used WAY too much bandwith in the one week trial. DSL is what we finally went with. it wasn’t what I wanted but it was the only choice that didn’t require 3 months and digging in the yard. I’m hoping we’ll have more choices eventually! 🙂

  3. Have you tried one of the satellite companies or ATT’s U-verse? I wouldn’t give Charter a chance now. We have Direct for TV and just got U-verse for phone & internet a couple of weeks ago. It is so much faster than DSL. Not happy with some of the phone service, but very happy with the internet speed.
    Beckie

  4. Ugh, how frustrating!!!

    I second the DSL recommendation if Charter proves unworkable. We gave up cable about 2 years ago and went DSL with DSL Extreme and I don’t really see the difference speed-wise. Just an FYI in case it comes in handy!! 🙂

  5. Good luck with Charter–know that it was no better for us with Time Warner a few months ago. Even more than just getting it hooked up, they wouldn’t honor a written contract (sent to us by them, mind you) for the cost of running it back to our house and we had already PAID the amount they had indicated. They did reimburse us the amount, but apparently if you are a big enough company, you aren’t obligated to follow any rules. We probably could have fought it, but the big companies know that most of the time they only have to stall for awhile and the little people will give up. We did. It took 3 weeks of my husband calling them and them stalling before we caved.

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