1) I'm old enough to remember logging on to AOL the very first time and hearing the familiar "You've got mail". Have to be honest; I'm a bit nostalgic for those days.
2) I guess that if people want a speedy service at Chick-Fil-A, they're out of cluck. Maybe they should just wing it and try another place.
"Pretty much" doesn't quite describe areas of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, northern Wisconsin, or northern Minnesota - all three places I've tried to get "usable" cell data without too much luck.
I understand it’s not everywhere, but it’s so so so much better than it used to be.
My exp. is largely personal stuff riding Amtrak east of the Mississippi. The Crescent between NOLA and DC was a smattering of GSM access in 2011. Today, you’ve got 4G+ all the way.
Granted. The coastal areas have come a long way, as have the more populated ones. We live in the tri-county Detroit metro area & now have 4G at home and 5G at work. Just needs a leeetle more tweaking for the wilderness, lol!
Yeah, Crescent route goes kinda down the Appalachian Mountains. But there’s kinda dead zones between Charlottesville and Greensboro, and Birmingham really to Slidell.
For your stuff, though, I’d be curious what something like Starlink looks like.
Having thoughts of trying to get SD video files over BGAN from Indiana to DC in 2006……
I started using a room-sized DEC PDP-10 at Western Michigan University in the mid-70s... so today's tech is so far advanced, it's like I was on another planet. I was all excited when the hardwired terminals were interactive, meaning you could type commands all day & it would respond in the order they were received. Then I moved to the Detroit area and had to use an IBM mainframe. *sigh* And I won't start on PCs. The good, the bad, & the ugly all in my lifetime. ;)
Hubby has an aversion to anything Musk-related, so I don't think Starlink is in our future. *shrug* I'll deal.
I can only imagine how those video files worked out in 2006!
1) I'm old enough to remember logging on to AOL the very first time and hearing the familiar "You've got mail". Have to be honest; I'm a bit nostalgic for those days.
2) I guess that if people want a speedy service at Chick-Fil-A, they're out of cluck. Maybe they should just wing it and try another place.
Thank you; I'll show myself out now.
The death of dial-up is a beautiful example of what happens when governments stops restraining progress.
Pretty much everywhere in the lower-48, you can get cell data that’s usable.
This happened despite Ajit Pai gutting blessed Net Neutrality.
"Pretty much" doesn't quite describe areas of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, northern Wisconsin, or northern Minnesota - all three places I've tried to get "usable" cell data without too much luck.
I understand it’s not everywhere, but it’s so so so much better than it used to be.
My exp. is largely personal stuff riding Amtrak east of the Mississippi. The Crescent between NOLA and DC was a smattering of GSM access in 2011. Today, you’ve got 4G+ all the way.
Granted. The coastal areas have come a long way, as have the more populated ones. We live in the tri-county Detroit metro area & now have 4G at home and 5G at work. Just needs a leeetle more tweaking for the wilderness, lol!
Yeah, Crescent route goes kinda down the Appalachian Mountains. But there’s kinda dead zones between Charlottesville and Greensboro, and Birmingham really to Slidell.
For your stuff, though, I’d be curious what something like Starlink looks like.
Having thoughts of trying to get SD video files over BGAN from Indiana to DC in 2006……
:D
I started using a room-sized DEC PDP-10 at Western Michigan University in the mid-70s... so today's tech is so far advanced, it's like I was on another planet. I was all excited when the hardwired terminals were interactive, meaning you could type commands all day & it would respond in the order they were received. Then I moved to the Detroit area and had to use an IBM mainframe. *sigh* And I won't start on PCs. The good, the bad, & the ugly all in my lifetime. ;)
Hubby has an aversion to anything Musk-related, so I don't think Starlink is in our future. *shrug* I'll deal.
I can only imagine how those video files worked out in 2006!
I’m not quite that old. But my first email account was on an Ultrix machine via a vt220.
My old business partner had two Crays…..