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[paxamicus AT earthlink.net]

Oh, we have Hughes, in the new house I am thinking I will try Wild  
Blue or whatever the other one is called. I take my machine to town  
and pay stupid money for a cup of tea and a cookie in the local coffee  
house with quickie WiFi once a week or so. Podcasts are my friends. I  
can get stuff from all over the world and enjoy it all week long.   : )


On Apr 26, 2008, at 10:13 AM, Gene GeRue wrote:

> On Apr 26, 2008, at 9:05 AM, paxamicus AT earthlink.net wrote:
>
> > One other media guy I enjoy, but he's absolutely not impartial..Keith
> > Olbermann.  I don't watch the show but I catch the monologs on
> > YouTube.
>
> One of the conditions of living here is that my satellite connection
> is imperfect. Not only slow by city standards, but if I use too much
> bandwidth I get punished by being given even less. At least that is
> the apparent condition. For instance I also get poor radio reception
> down here. So when I discovered streaming radio I was in high clover--
> for about forty-five minutes, at which point my connection speed got
> so slow it was unusable for the purpose. I did a bit of research and
> it seems that Hughes Net is well known for punishing we heavy users. I
> can understand why but I don't like it, just have to live with it.
>
> So it is useless to tempt me with video clips. I've tried, they get to
> me in jerks. Good thing I am a reader.
>
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