I'm glad you fielded that question. I was going to say "What is being struck?" Alex.

 

I had to field it. Martha's busy feeding the dogs... with pieces of a Comcast CSR.

 

I have DirecTV and either I have a picture or I don't. Never had rain fade, and yes we have downpours. (maybe not like Florida) But I don't have a dish for internet, they could have those issues. How long have you had your dish, Dean? Maybe technology has improved them? I have seen round, also eliptical or oval.
I would still ask around to see if ppl in your area have problems or not, if you can get a list.
Dean

 

We've had DirecTV five or six months I think. I don't know anyone around here who doesn't lose the satellite signal during some of our heavy downpours. I'm betting that the problem would be the same with a satellite ISP.
The Comcast email issue is less of a problem for me, since I rarely receive email on my Comcast account. But it is a big aggravation for Martha who uses it for work.

 

I would like to be the Contrarian here, and point out:

HOW FRIGGIN' LUCKY ALL OF US ARE TO HAVE THE INTERNET, EMAIL, WEBMAIL, WORD PROCESSING/ SPREADSHEET/ DATABASE SOFTWARE. OTHERWISE, WE WOULDN'T HAVE THIS S2KI COMMUNITY, MARTHA COULDN'T WORK FROM HOME, LAINEY WOULD BE BORED TO TEARS, GRANNY WOULD HAVE NEVER FOUND THE SECRET CMPTMT, ETC.

Everyone on this website is old enough to remember when www meant WWW= World War Whatever. Remember white-out, tracing paper, mimeographs, carbon paper, onionskin paper, on and on and on.....

SO COUNT YOUR FRIGGIN' BLESSINGS

 

I do. And one of them is that I don't use Comcast as my ISP.

 

well as being one of the people that in my small way, made it happen, your welcome.

The other side of the coin is that the same technology which enables Martha to work from home enables Gupta, Ramet and Tapas to work from Bangalore and Dr Hoyle to read MRI's from Sydney.

The fact that most of my field has moved to Bangalore is not lost on me either since I'm now unemployed.


and comcast still sucks but at least the mail has gotten better in the last day.
it's amazing how quickly they can work when the smart people get detailed debug info
i wonder how hours were wasted on fire drill service calls which accomplished nothing.

 

My Verizon email did odd things yesterday. I use Thunderbird at home, but email addy is @verizon.com.....so every now and again when I access my mail at home it loads emails from days ago.

Yesterday it loaded a TON of then from when we were on our little mini vacation in ME and NH. I already had received those emails....what's up with that?

 

[QUOTE=paS2K,Sep 24 2008, 11:45 PM] I would like to be the Contrarian here, and point out:

 

When you were on vacation did you access your mail through Verizon's web site? If I use web mail, even if the e-mails have been read, once I am back home and can get mail on Outlook, the mail that was on the web mail will transfer to the Outlook even if it's old. I think (computer folks can correct me here) that the web mail stays on their servers and the Outlook moves it to your computer and off of their servers.