I probably don’t have to tell most of you how I feel about our ISP. But for those new, I absolutely HATE IT! I know, why not change ISP? Well, we are located in the sticks for starters and it is hard as heck to get an ISP out here. We have a little Co-Op (and I have never heard of this but another ISP confirmed it for me) and this Co-Op owns the lines coming into our county. So they regulated who we can get and who we can’t. And you guessed it, the only ones we can get right now is them. We are lucky dogs, I tell you.
Anyway, we weren’t on the net yesterday because the new poles they just installed are falling out of the ground. We had a bad ice storms a few years back, we were without power for 12 days. Damn, that was rough! Trees fell, telephone poles broke, lines snapped and we were up a creek without a paddle. That Spring and Summer, they hired a bunch of idiots for contractors to replace everything. They put up new poles, busted water lines, strung new electrical wires, dug up all the wires in the ground and we were without power for a day or two. You get the idea, the more they fixed, the more they tore up. Now all these years later, the poles are actually coming out of the ground. They didn’t dig the holes deep enough, the ground is super wet and up come the poles.
We have underground lines at this location also. But those lines have to eventually connect to one of those poles down the road. And that pole fell out of the ground yesterday. I called them and they told me they were walking hard to get that pole back in the ground. Also today, we might experience a brief outage while they reconnected us. Ok, supposedly the pole is in the ground, we have had the outage, now maybe, just maybe we can stay on the damn internet for more than a minute or two.
I am sorry for complaining but it does make me feel better. I know everyone around here is tired of hearing me yell at the internet provider but seriously I have never seen anything like this bunch.
Hopefully, tomorrow we will be back to normal but I don’t know what that is any more, lol! For now, I am going to put some Gods and Goddesses on the site and cool off for a bit.
Sorry for all the inconveniences this may have caused you,
Love ya,
Lady A
Witches Of The Craft® 
What happened to our laws about monopoly, and the ones about trade? How can this happen? What the heck has happened to fair trade? Wow! I’m so sorry you’re going thru all of this, is there no one that these people answer to? The trade commission, fcc, anyone? It just doesn’t sound right to me…I really hope you can get it all fixed, and can continue your work without interruption….Good luck with this…
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I am about a bull-headed at a bull. When we first located out here, we had an excellent ISP from town. That ISP was the one that told me that we couldn’t get them out here. My reaction was “WHAT?” He told me that the Co-Op owned the lines so far up. In that zone, the Co-op could say who they let come in and who couldn’t. So I called a lawyer and at first, we had a wonderful case. Well that was till I told him it was a Co-Op. I found out a Co-Op works differently than a regular business. The people that buy their services are suppose to have ownership in them, HA! We are suppose to get a check every year from them for the dividends we have paid in over the year, HA! Most of the people out here just want internet to goof off on, not actually trying to work off of. I guess they are happy with what they have, we aren’t. I know the Co-Op hates my guts but, oh well, give us what you promised and I will shut up. There is nothing legally that can be done but maybe they will get tired of hearing from me and fix it.
We are going to try it again today. Thank you for your comment, sweetie.
Have a very blessed day,
Lady A
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well I hope they get all your woes fixed , I remember when we started out , now things are moving so fast , I cant keep up .. hang in their …..
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