ORIGINAL: LesUyeda
Grey Beard.
It is much worse/more frustrating for me than that. We built/bought this house in 1963; new development, right in the middle of EVERYTHING eventually, like now. Some time ago the local telephone provider, at that time Pac Bell, started laying fiber optic cable throughout the neighborhood. Great. NOT. In the middle of the process, Pac Bell went belly up, and the telephone service was taken over by AT&T. In their opinion, there were not enough subscribers left in my area, to warrant the completion of the cabling, so it stops; 1 1/2 blocks from my house. The only way I can get high speed, is through Dish Network, over the air, at $50 bucks a month. For an hour or two a day on the INTERNET, there a lot of other things I can get with that $50 bucks; after all Social Security ain't that great, it only helps.
Les
p.s. At least the blue bands are gone:-))))))))))
p.p.s. And the little dotted ''reminder of where you were'' boxes are back:-)))))))))))
I lived in the mountains just outside Yosemite. The just repaved our roads. Then 6 months later they tore out the center of the new roads and laid the optic cables. They quit just past the entrance of my drive way. A dirt road 1 mile long with 6 homes on it. I couldn't get high speed at all either. Then about 4 years later they decided to give it to us. That was like a new world for us. The puter was the only way to keep in touch with family. The new roads turned into giant pot holes after they laid the cables and was worse then before the new road. I could have gotten satellite too but my SSI doesn't allow high end waste. Living in the big city does have it's advantages. A lot of them. I completely understand what you are going through.
I just never knew it could be like that in SD. I figured all city's had good connections.