I was thinking about doing something similiar with my parents...buying a slingbox, paying to upgrade their speed on their internet and watching tv from their house to mine.
Mike On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 10:07 AM, RLeeSimon <[email protected]> wrote: > Get friendly with a neighbor not too far away who has cable ...make a deal > with them to share the internet connection and cost ...put it in writing as > a little contract in case you shoot their dog or something ...what you are > doing is getting a wifi router and hooking into their cable ...if their > speed is slow, offer to pay for the higher speed so everything works > without > problems ...smart, eh? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Rigby [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 9:17 AM > Subject: Re: Usage terms > > > On Dec 23, 2008, at 9:01 PM, Fred Holmes wrote: > > > This is all part of a liberal plot to get everyone to move into the > > cities from the country and leave the country to wilderness. > > I am looking at a place to move to out in the country. No cable or > DSL is available at the location I am interested in. However, > Comcast is running cable into all the new developments in and around > the area. They just won't provide feeds to many of the older, more > established residences. > > If you happen to live right on a main road you can likely get > cable. If you live down any of the side roads that intersect with the > main road, you are SOL for cable, unless you live in a new development > wherein houses are clustered tightly together and the residents live > a__hole to elbow together. > > It's all about the money. > > Steve > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > -- Make sure you support your local CarbonONset programs! ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
